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Yossef (Yossi) Schwartz is a Bertram and Barbara Cohn Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University. He was born in Israel in 1965. Since 1987, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg (Switzerland), where he received his M.A. in Medieval Studies in 1993. He earned his doctorate in Philosophy from the Hebrew University in 1996. In 2000-2002, he was a Martin Buber Professor at the Faculty of Theology at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2002, the Higher Education Council of Israel awarded him the Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Junior Faculty. Subsequently, he joined TAU Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas as a senior lecturer.
At TAU, Prof. Schwartz served as head of the Cohn Institute from 2009 to 2015 and head of the school of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies from 2015 to 2020. Between 2020 and 2023, he was a Visiting Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He was a visiting scholar at UPenn, the ETH Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (MPIWG), the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Prof. Schwartz’s research is in the fields of Intellectual History and the Social History of Knowledge, emphasizing the study of Medieval Institutions of learning, the translation, circulation, and migration of Knowledge. Since 2026, he is the Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies. His recent research includes a comprehensive project on writing the History of Philosophy and Science in Jewish History.
He is the coeditor of the Cambridge Journal Science in Context and of the Mohr Siebeck book series Religious Dynamics – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
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