CURRICULUM VITAE
Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman
1. Address and telephone number
Work: Department of Philosophy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer?Sheva, Israel
Tel. 08?6472263/4
Home: Zerach Barnet 14/20
Jerusalem 95404
Tel. 02-6513331
2. Education
B.A. - 1957- 1961, M.A. - 1962-1964, Ph.D. - 1969 - Wayne State University
3. Employment History
1965-66: Adjunct Instructor - Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University
1966?71: Assistant Professor - Department of Philosophy, Yeshiva University
1970?71: Adjunct Assistant Professor - Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
1971?74: Adjunct Assistant Professor - Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University
1976?77: Adjunct Assistant Professor - Dept. of Philosophy, Hebrew University
1971 ? 1978: Lecturer, Ben?Gurion University of the Negev
1978 - 1989: Senior Lecturer with tenure, Ben?Gurion University of the Negev
1989 - 1997: Associate Professor, Ben?Gurion University of the Negev
1997- Full Professor, Ben?Gurion University of the Negev
4. Academic Administration
1973-75 - Chair, Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1991-94 - Chair, Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
5. Courses taught on a regular basis:
Philosophy of Religion: Theism
Philosophy of Religion: Atheism
Religion and Existentialism: Kierkegaard and Sartre
Mysticism and Philosophy
Epistemology: Knowledge and Justification
Epistemology: Moore and Wittgenstein
Seminar in Epistemology
Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
6. Other Courses taught:
The Ethics of Belief
Philosophy of Anthropology
Religion and Secularism
Hume’s Philosophy of Religion
The Reliability of Sense Perception
Philosophical Theology
Feminist Theology
7. Research Institutes:
Summer 1991, Summer 1992: Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
1989-1995, 1999- Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, Jerusalem
8. Professional Activities:
Member of Editorial Board of journal, Religious Studies, Cambridge University Press.
Member of Academic Board of the Heller Center for the Study of Women in Judaism, Bar-Ilan University.
Editor for philosophy of religion for the revised edition of the Hebrew Encyclopedia, Jerusalem.
Member Academic Board of Shalom Hartman Institute Press
Member Academic Board of Ben-Gurion University Press 2004-
Member of Editorial Board of journal, Philosophy Compass, Blackwell Press.
9. Publications:
(a) Books
Authored:
1. 1997- Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief, Cornell University Press.
2. 1994 - The Fear, the Trembling, and the Fire: Kierkegaard and Hasidic Masters on the Binding of Isaac, University Press of America.
3. 2001 – Mystical Experience of God, a Philosophical Enquiry (Ashgate Publishers, London)
4. 2003 - “Abraham! Abraham! Kierkegaard and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac (Ashgate Publishers, London)
Editorship:
1. 2001 – Co-Editor, with Paul Helm and Linda Zagzebski, of Series in Philosophy of Religion, Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series, Ashgate Publishers, Great Britain.
2. Forthcoming – Assistant Editor of Festschrift in Honor of Shalom Rosenberg
(b) Chapters in Collective Volumes
1. 1974 - "The Simplicity of God," in A. Parush, ed., The Rational and the Irrational (Hebrew), 70?77.
2. 1982 - "Instrumentalism and Realism," (Hebrew), in Kasher and Halamish, eds. Israeli Philosophy, 109?19.
3. 1984 - "Institutional Belief," International Wittgenstein Symposium on Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion, 78?81.
4. 1987 - "Aesthetics in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook," (Hebrew), in S. Rosenberg and B. Ish?Shalom, eds., Yovel Orot, 159?68.
5. 1989 - "Freedom and Determinism in the Philosophy of Maimonides," in E. Ormsby, ed., Maimonides and His Time, (Washington: Catholic University of America), 139?150.
6. 1990 - "Radical Responsibility in the Thought of Maimonides," in Ira Robinson, ed., The Thought of Moses Maimonides, Philosophical and Legal Studies, (New York, Edwin Mellon Press), 249?265.
7. 1991 - "The Love of God in Maimonides´ Philosophy," in J. Pelaez, ed., The Life and Work of Maimonides, (Cordoba, El Amendro)
8. 1994 - "Spirituality and Poetry," in D. Schatz and L. Kaplan, eds., Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook: Jewish Spirituality, (New York University Press), 88-119.
9. 1994 - "Zion and Jerusalem ? The Jewish State in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook," in D. Shatz and L. Kaplan, eds., Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook: Jewish Spirituality, (New York University Press), 276-289.
10. 1993 - "Maimonides and the Cure?all Book," in Fred Rosner and Samuel Kotteck, eds., Moses Maimonides: Physician, Scientist and Philosopher (Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson), 189- 197.
11. 1993 - "Abraham and Ambiguity," in A. Segi, ed., Religion and Morality, (Bar?Ilan University Press), 23-39.
12. 1995 - "Names and Divine Names: Kripke and Gikatillia," in Moshe Koppel and Ely Merzbach eds. Higayon, Studies in Rabbinic Logic, (Zomet Institute), 51-60.
13. 1995 - "Prof. Leibowitz and Religious Experience," (Hebrew), A. Segi, ed., Yeshayahu Leibowitz, (Jerusalem: Keter), 29- 38.
14. 1997 - "The Denial of Free Will in Hassidic Thought," in M. Kellner and B. Maniken, eds., Free Will and Human Responsibility in Jewish Thought (University of Maryland Press).
15. 1997 - "Hasidic Existentialism?" Hazon Nahum (Yeshivah University Press).
16. 1997 - “Hasidism and Modernity,” (Hebrew) Yad L’Ori, editor Shmuel Glick.
17. 1999 - "The Secret of the Ninth Verse of Rabbi Leiner of Izbica," Haim Marantz, ed., Festschrift in Honor of Walter Ackerman
18. 1998 (with Tamar Ross) - “The Implications of Feminism for Judaism” (Hebrew)
19. 2000 - “Identifying God in Experience: On Strawson, Sounds, and God’s Space,” in Paul Helm, ed., God and Reference (Curzon Press).
20. 2000 - “Judaic Perspectives on Petitionary Prayer,” in Paul Helm, ed., God and Reference (Curzon Press).
21. 2003 - (Hebrew) “Abraham in Early Hasidic Thought,” in M. Halamish and H. Kasher, eds., Abraham in Jewish Tradition (Bar-Ilan University Press).
22. 2001 - “From Experience to God,” in David Shatz, editor, Readings in Philosophy of Religion
23. 2001 – “Feminism and Judaism, A Theological Approach,” C. Kahat, Judaism and Feminism
24. 2001– “The Aqedah in the Thought of David Hartman”
25. 2003 – ‘The Aqedah and Jewish Spirituality,” in Leonard Greenspoon, editor, Jewish Spirituality.
26. 2004 – “The Kabbalistic Sources of Rav Kook On Repentance,” in Volume Honoring Bracha Zak, ed. Zev Gries.
27. 2004 – “Mysticism,” in William Wainwright, editor, Oxford Handbook in Philosophy of Religion.
28. Forthcoming – “On Scientific Explanations of Mystical Experience of God,” in William Sweet, editor, Science, Religion, and Philosophy
29. 2004 - “The Akedah and Covenant Today,” in The Concept of Covenant Today, ed. John Pawlikowski (Sheed & Ward)
30. Forthcoming – "Double Mindedness and the Aqedah," in Gerashon Kitsis, ed. Essays on the Sfat Emet
31. Forthcoming - “Feminism is No Garden of Eden,” (Hebrew) in Chana Safrai, ed. Feminism and Judaism
(c) Refereed articles
1. 1969 - "Suter on Russell on Meinong," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 29, 441-445.
2. 1974 - "Inductive Evidence for Other Minds," Philosophical Studies, 25, 323?36.
3. 1975 - "The Paradox of Omnipotence, and Perfection," Sophia, 14, 31?39.
4. 1977 - "The Meta?Philosophy of Religious Language," Nous, 11, 151?61.
5. 1977 - "Omnipotence and Impeccability," The New Scholasticism, 51, 151?61.
6. 1978 - "The Religious Option is a Genuine Option," Religious Studies, 4, 505?14.
7. 1979 - "On Arguing from God´s Possibility to His Necessity," Logique et Analysis, 525-26.
8. 1980 - "Theological Realism," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 17?27.
9. 1982 - "God and Theoretical Entities: Their Cognitive Status," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 131?41.
10. 1982 - "Teshuva and Authenticity," Tradition, 249?53.
11. 1984 - "The Philosophical Hassagot of Rabad on Maimonides´ Mishneh Torah," The New Scholasticism, 145?69.
12. 1985 - "Religion as Language," Religious Studies, 159?68.
13. 1987 - "The Problem of Evil in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook," (Hebrew), Da´at, 145?55.
14. 1989 - "Limits of Maximal Power," Philosophical Studies, 55, 329?36.
15. 1990 - "Kierkegaard´s Fear and Trembling," Man and World, 23, 295?304.
16. 1992 - "Maimonides´ `Ravings,´" Review of Metaphysics, 45, 309?328.
17. 1992 - "A New Look at the Problem of Evil," Faith and Philosophy, 9, 210-216.
18. 1993 - "Religious Diversity and the Epistemic Justification of Religious Belief," Faith and Philosophy, 345-364.
Reprinted in Philosophy of Religion, The Big Questions eds. Michael Murray and Eleonore Stump (Oxford, Blackwell: 1999)
19. 1993 - "Naming and Naming God," Religious Studies 29, 193-216.
20. 1993 - "Can Faith Persist in the Presence of Evil?" Tradition, 21-27.
21. 1994 - "Zion and Jerusalem ? The Jewish State in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook," (Hebrew) in Iyunim b´Tekumat Yisrael 4, 505-514.
22. 1994 - "Experiencing God´s Infinity," American Philosophical Quarterly, 53-61.
23. 1995 - "The Name of God," Nous, 29, 536-543.
24. 1997 - “And Sarah Died,” (Hebrew) Akdamot 2.
25. 1997- "And Sarah Died," Tradition, 32.
26. 1998 - "Petitionary Prayer," Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion.
27. 1998 - “On a Sociological Challenge to the Veridicality of Religious Experience,” Religious Studies 34, 235-251.
28. 1998 - “Epistemic Peer Conflict and Religious Belief,” Faith and Philosophy 15, 229-235.
29. 1998 - “The Figure of Abraham in Hassidic Thought,” Harvard Theological Review
30. 2000 - “Buber’s Blunder: Buber’s Replies to Scholem and Schatz-Uffenheimer,” Modern Judaism
31. 2001 - “’Fear and Trembling’, Kierkegaard’s Christian Work,” Faith and Philosophy.
32. 2000 – “Prospects for a Sound Stage-3 of Cosmological Arguments,” Religious Studies
Reprinted in A. Pruss and R. Gale, eds. The Existence of God (Forthcoming, Ashgate Academic Press).
33. 2001 – “In Defense of a Contented Exclusivist,” Religious Studies
34. 2003- “Loz Leibin: A Reply to Lippman Bodoff, The Edah Journal
35. 2004- “Mysticism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (THIS IS A REFEREED ARTICLE)
36. Forthcoming – “Beyond Belief: On the Uses of Creedal Confession,” Faith and Philosophy
37. Forthcoming – “Hasidism as an Activism,” Religious Studies
(d) Other professional articles
1. 1978 - Review Essay of Basil Mitchell´s, The Justification of Religious Belief, Philosophia,
2. 1987 - "Orot Haemunah," Jewish Action.
3. 1987 - Review of A. Blum´s Logic, Part I, Philosophia.
4. 1991 - Review of Harvey E. Goldberg, ed., Judaism Viewed from Within and from Without; Anthropological Studies, in Israel Social Science Research.
5. 1991 - "Between Rationalism and Mysticism, A Review Essay," in Jewish Action.
6. 1991 - Review of Zeev Levy´s, David Baumgardt and Ethical Hedonism, Jewish Quarterly Review.
7. 1992 - "A Hassidic Analysis of Purim," Jewish Action, 2 pages. 59. 1993 - "Sukkot," Jewish Action.
8. 1993 - Review of Martin Buber, The Tales of Rabbi Nachman, The Origin and Meaning of Hasidism, and The Eclipse of God, Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy, in American Philosophical Association Newsletter.
9. 1996 - Review of Nehemia Polen, The Holy Fire, in Jewish Action.
10. 1997 - Review of Elizabeth S. Radcliffe and Carol J. White, editors, Faith in Theory and Practice, Essays on Justifying Religious Belief (Open Court, 1993), in American Philosophical Association Newsletter.
11. 1997 - Review of Avraham Shapira, The Kabbalistic and Hasidic Sources of A. D. Gordon´s Thought (Hebrew) in Iyunim b´Tekumat Yisrael.
12. 1997 - Review of J. Jordan and D. Howard-Snyder, eds., Faith, Freedom, and Rationality, Philosophy of Religion Today, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews.
13. 1997 - Review of Todd C. Moody, Does God Exist? in Canadian Philosophical Reviews.
14. 1997 - Review of Timothy A. Robinson, ed., God, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews.
15. 1997 - Review of William Reese Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, in American Philosophical Association Newsletter.
16. 1999 - Reply to Reese, American Philosophical Association Newsletter.
17. 2000 - Review of S. Schuster, Philosophical Practice, Iyyun
18. 2000 – Review of Norman Lamm, The Religious Thought of Hasidism, Text and Commentary, in Jewish Action
19. 2001- Review of Matthew Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, in Faith and Philosophy
20. 2002 – Review of Netivot Shalom in Jewish Action
21. 2003 – “The Nature of Religious Experience,” Shalom Hartman Institute
22. 2003- “Review of Jonathan Adler, Beliefs Own Ethics,” Iyun, Israeli Journal of Philosophy
23. 2004- Review of Elliot N. Dorff, Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics, Moed - Annual for Jewish Studies
24. 2004 – Review of “Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” ed. Oliver Lehman Daniel H. Frank, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
25. Forthcoming – Review of Shaul Magid, Hasidism on the Margin, in Polin, A Journal of Polish Jewish Studies
26. Forthcoming – Review of Steven M. Cahn, Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion, Classics and Contemporary Issues, in American Philosophical Association Newsletter
(e) Submitted Articles:
- "A New Gettier-Type Refutation of Nozick’s Analysis of Knowledge"
- "After Wellhausen: Sommer on "Torah as Midrash"
- "Wellhausen and the Hasidim"
10. Lectures and presentations at meetings and invited seminars
(a) Invited lectures at conferences/meetings
1. 1986, April - "Radical Responsibility in Maimonides´ Thought," Maimonides Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2. 1986, August - "Aesthetics in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook," International Conference on the Thought of Rav Kook, Jerusalem, August, 1986.
3. 1986, December - "Reply to J. Kvanvig, `On Omniscience,´" American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 1986.
4. 1991, October - "Rabbi Nachman of Bretslav´s Critique of Maimonides," Conference on Maimonides´ Thought, Yeshiva University, New York.
5. 1994, November - "Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Hasidic Thought," Conference on Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Jewish Thought, Haifa University.
6. 1995, March - "A Spiritualization of `The Sanctification of the Name,´" International Theology Conference on "Holiness," Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, Jerusalem.
7. 1995, July - "The Akedah and Existentialism," International Philosophy Conference on the Akedah, Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, Jerusalem.
8. 1997, April - "God as a Perceptual Particular: Strawson, Sounds, and God’s Space,” Conference on God and Reference, King’s College, University of London, England.
9. 1997, December - “Judaic Perspectives on Petitionary prayer,” Society of Christian Philosophers, APA Eastern Division, Philadelphia.
10. 1998 - February - “On the Attitude of Early Hassidism to Nature and the World,” Harvard University, conference on Judaism and the natural world.
11. 1998 - March - “On a Sociological Explanation of Theistic Mystical Experience,” Metaphysical Society of America, conference on religious Experience and Philosophical Thought.
12. 1999- March - “In Defense of the Rationality of the Contented Exclusivist,” Society of Christian Philosophers, Salt Lake City, Utah.
13. 2000 – March - Reply to Rabbi Sirat, “Judaism and Repentance,” Conference on Religions and Repentance, Adenaur Institute and Elijah School, Jerusalem.
14. 2000- June – “Judaism and Change,” Conference on Feminism and Jewish Tradition, Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, Jerusalem.
15. 2000 – September – ‘The Aqedah and Jewish Spirituality,” 13th Annual Klutznick Conference on Jewish Civilization, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
16. 2001 – March – “Judaism in the Contemporary World,” International Theology Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.
17. 2001 – August – “The Hasidic Zadik – A Challenge of Gender Theory,” Conference on Saints in Contemporary Society, Elijah School and Konrad Adenaur Foundation, Jerusalem.
18. 2001 – August – “Buddhism and Jewish Studies – An Agenda” Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.
19. 2002- October. “Belief and Religious Belief,” The Alexander Robertson Lecture on the Truth of the Christian Faith, University of Glasgow
20. 2003- February - “The Akedah and Covenant Today,” Conference on the Concept of Covenant Today, The Joseph Cardinal Bernadin Center, Catholic Theological Union, University of Chicago.
21. 2003- May – “Jewish Mysticism and Morality: Kabbalah and its Ontological Dualities,” Conference on Mysticism and Morality, Princeton University.
22. 2003- June- “The Nature of Religious Experience,” Annual Philosophy Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute.
23. 2003- August- “Religious Experience and Peacemaking,” Conference on Religion and Peacemaking, Elijah School and Konrad Adenaur Foundation, Jerusalem.
24. 2004 – January – Presentation of the Film: The Seventh Chamber of Edith Stein,
An Interpreted Life, International Theology Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute.
25. 2004 - March- Reply to Zelinski, “Morality and Non-Dualistic Mysticism,” American Philosophical Association Meetings, Pacific Division, Pasadena, California
26. 2004- June – “The Perils of Teshuvah: Rav Kook and Neitchze,” International Philosophy Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute.
27. 2005 – April – Presenter and Panelist, Conference: "Voices from Palestine and Israel" Living for Peace in a Holy Land. Guilford College, Greensboro, NC.
(b) Presentation of papers at conferences/meetings
1. 1972 - "Divine Attributes," Israel Philosophical Association Annual Conference.
2. 1977 - "Theological Realism," Israel Philosophical Association Annual Conference.
3. 1981 - "Religion and Language," Conference on Religion, Language, and Culture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
4. 1983, August - "Institutional Belief," Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg, Austria.
5. 1986, September - "The Love of God in Maimonides´ Philosophy," Maimonides Conference, Cordoba, Spain.
6. 1992 - "Abraham and Ambiguity," Conference on Religion and Morality, Bar-Ilan University.
7. 1995 - "Faith and the Problem of Evil," Annual Rabbinics Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, Jerusalem.
8. 1996 - "And Sarah Died," Annual Rabbinics Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, Jerusalem.
9. 1997 - “Abraham in Hasidism,” Annual National Conference on Jewish Thought, Bar-Ilan University
10. 1998 - “Re-identifying God in Experience,” World Congress of Philosophy, Boston
11. 1999 - “Religious Feminism - A Theological Approach,” Women’s Forum, Jerusalem, July, 1999.
12. 2000, May – Reply to Duncan Pritchard, “”God Exists” as a Hinge Proposition,” Gifford Conference on Natural Theology, Aberdeen, Scotland
13. 2002 - “Neuropsychological Explanations of Mystical Experiences,” Jacques Maritain Society, Toronto, Canada
14. 2002- “Neuropsychology and Mystical Experience,” Institute for Neuroscience and the Humanities, Allegheny College, USA.
15. 2004- "Hasidism as Activism," American Academy of Religion, annual meetings, San Antonio, Texas
(c) Seminars at universities and institutions
1. 1975 - "The Meta-philosophy of Religious Language," Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University.
2. 1986 - "The Concept of `Belief´ in Anthropology," Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University.
3. 1982 - "Freud and Religion," Jewish Studies Program, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
4. 1983 - "Religious Experience," Jewish Studies Program, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
5. 1991- "Religion and Justification," Department of Philosophy, Yeshiva University.
6. 1991 - "Rav Kook´s Philosophy of History," Department of Jewish Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
7. 1991 - "Maimonides´ Ravings," Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
8. 1991 - "Kierkegaard´s Fear and Trembling," Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University.
9. 1993 - "Rav Kook and Freedom of Thought," Bet Morasha College, Jerusalem.
10. 1995, December - "Can God´s Existence be Proved?" Haifa Philosophical Forum, Haifa.
11. 1997- “Experience of God,” Yeshivah University
