Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Ulrich Charpa is a Privatdozent in philosophy at the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum . He has published extensively on the history and philosophy of science. Among his books are Philosophische Wissenschaftshistorie (Vieweg, 1995), Grundprobleme der Wissenschaftsphilosophie (UTB, 1996), and Wissen und Handeln: Grundzüge einer Forschungstheorie (Metzler, 2001). E-mail: nc-charpaul@netcologne.de Shai Cherry is the Mellon Assistant Professor ofJewish Thought at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His doctoral dissertation, "Creation, Evolution and Jewish Thought" (Brandeis University, 2001) surveys Jewish responses to Darwinism. E-mail: shai.cherry@vanderbilt.edu Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995), born in Jerusalem, taught Jewish studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, and the history of ideas and philosophy of science at Tel Aviv University. A full list of his publications is published in this issue of Aleph, pp. 83-95. Menachem Kellner is Wolfson Professor ofJewish Thought at the University of Haifa. His recent publications include Must a Jew Believe Anything? (London, 1999) and Perus Ralbag le-sir ha-sirim (Ramat-Gan, 2001). His recently completed translation of Maimonides' Sefer Ahavah is scheduled for publication in the Yale Judaica Series in 2004. E-mail: kellner@research.haifa.ac.il Giancarlo Lacerenza is affiliated with the Department of Asian Studies, University of Naples "L'Orientale," Italy. His recent publications include: "Jewish Magicians and Christian Clients in Late Antiquity: The Testimony of 411 Amulets and Inscriptions," in L. V. Rutgers, ed., What Athens Has to Do with Jerusalem (Leuven, 2002); "Lo spazio dell'ebreo. Insediamenti e cultura ebraica a Napoli (secoli XV-XVI)," in L. Barletta, ed., Integrazione ed emarginazione. Circuiti e modelli (Naples, 2002); and (with S. Carboni and D. Whitehouse), "Glassmaking in Medieval Tyre: The Written Evidence," Journal of Ghss Studies 45 (2003) E-mail: glacerenza@iuo.it David C. Reisman is assistant professor of Arabic-Islamic Thought at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Making of the Avicennan Tradition (Leiden, 2002), the editor of Before and After Avicenna (Leiden, 2003), and co-author of the forthcoming CUssical IsUmic Philosophy: An Anthology. As a graduate student, he catalogued Franz Rosenthal's microfilm library of Arabic manuscripts. E-mail: dreisman@uic.edu James Robinson is Dorot Fellow at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University. He has published articles on medieval Jewish philosophy and philosophical exegesis. His current project is an edition, translation, and analysis of Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes. E-mail: jtr3@nyu.edu Dov Schwartz is chair of the Department of Philosophy and the head of the interdisciplinary program in contemporaryJudaism at Bar-Ilan University. His fields of interest are medieval Jewish thought, the relations between Jewish and Muslim medieval thought, and the history of Zionist thought. His recent publications include: Old in New Vessel: The Philosophy of a FourteenthCentury Jewish Neoplatonic Circle (Heb.) (Jerusalem, 1996); Messianism in MedievalJewish Thought (Heb.) (Ramat Gan, 1997); Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought (Heb.) (Ramat Gan, 1999); "Changing Fronts in Attitudes Toward Science in the Medieval Debates Over Philosophy," Journal ofJewish Thought and Philosophy 7 (1997): 61-82. 412 E-mail: schwardl@mail.biu.ac.il Mauro Zonta is associate professor of the history of Hebrew philosophy and a lecturer in the history of Arabic philosophy in the Department of Philosophical and Epistemological Studies, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Italy. His publications include: La 'Chssiftcazione delle scienze' di al-Farabi nelL· tradizione ebraica (Turin, 1992); Un interprete ebreo della filosofia di Galeno (Turin, 1995); "Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology in Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias," Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 6 (1996): 263-315; Lafilosofia antica nel Medioevo ebraico (Brescia, 1996); and Lafilosofìa ebraica medievale. Storia e testi (Rome and Bari, 2002). He is currently working on an Italian translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. E-mail: Mauro.Zonta@uniromal.it, maurozonta@libero.it 413 ...