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Curriculum Vitae Nimrod Bar-Am | |
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נמרוד בר-עם קורות חיים | |
| Personal | ||
| Place and date of birth | Tel-Aviv, September 23, 1970. | |
| Citizenship | Israel. | |
| Address |
N. Bar-Am P. O. B. 1000 Ramat Chen 52109 Ramat Gan, Israel |
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| ngbaram@gmail.com | ||
| Telephone | +972 52 6707607 | |
| Fax | +972 3 6774482 | |
| web | http://www.nimrodbaram.com | |
| Married | ||
| Education | ||
| 2000 | Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude. Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University. Thesis: "The Philosophical Background to the Problem of Translation". |
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| 1996-99 | Work towards Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University. |
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| 1994-96 | MA Summa Cum Laude. Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University. Thesis: "The Problem of Translation". |
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| 1990-93 | BA Magna Cum Laude. Philosophy (major) and Linguistics. Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University. |
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| Positions Held | ||
| 2007-present | Senior Lecturer, Head, The Unit for the study of Rhetoric, Commuication and Mass Media Department, Sapir Academic College. |
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| 2005-06 | Teaching Prof., Sapir Academic College. | |
| 2002-04 | Post-doctoral fellowship, Dibner institute, MIT. | |
| 2001-02 | Post-doctoral fellowship, Haifa University. | |
| 1999-01 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University. | |
| 1996-98 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University. | |
| 1993-96 | Research Assistant (to Professor Joseph Agassi). | |
| Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University. | ||
| 1992-93 | Research Assistant (to Professor Marcelo Dascal). | |
| Editorial Assistant, Pragmatics and Cognition. | ||
| Teaching Experience (Selcted Courses and Seminars) |
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| * | The Central Problems in Media Studies | |
| * | Rhetoric and Media | |
| * | Philosophy of Communication | |
| * | The Logic of Questions | |
| * | Introduction to Logic | |
| * | Logic and Epistemology | |
| * | Philosophy and History of Logic, directed studies | |
| Selected Presentations | ||
| 2010 | Computability in Europe 2010, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Invited speaker. | |
| 2007 | Rethinking Popper, Acadmy of Seinces of the Czech Republic, Prague, Active participant. | |
| 2003 | The 12th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo university, Oviedo, Active participant. | |
| 2002 | Karl Popper 2002 centenary congress, Vienna. Active participant. | |
| Grants and Prizes | ||
| 2002-04 | Post-doctoral fellowship, Dibner institute, MIT. | |
| 2001-02 | Post-doctoral fellowship, Haifa University. | |
| 1997-00 | The Natan Rothenstreich Grant for Ph.D. Students. | |
| 1994 | The Dean of Students Grant Prize in Memory of David Kason. | |
| 1992 | The Menachem Yaakov Hai Grant. | |
| Languages | English, Hebrew, German (reading). | |
| Areas of Specialty | Philosophy and history of logic. | |
| Philosophy of science and communication. | ||
| Areas of Competence | Epistemology, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy. | |
| Publications | ||
| 2010 | “Individual Ahoy!” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (2) 319-324. |
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| 2009 | “Proof vs. Sound Inference”, in: Parusnikova, Z and Cohen R. (eds.) Rethinking Popper Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 272. Berlin: Springer. p. 63-70. www.springer.com “In Search of a Better Tradition: A Review of John Wettersten’s ‘Whewell’s Critics: Have they Prevented him from Doing Good?’”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 39 (2). pos.sagepub.com |
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| 2008 | Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic; Berlin: Springer. |
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| 2005 | "Popper and the Establishment ", with J. Agassi, |
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| 2004 | "Extensionalism and Induction in Boole", Physis, Vol. XLI, p. 97-123. Download PDF |
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| 2003 | “A Framework for a Critical History of Logic”,
Sudhoffs Archiv. Band 87, Heft 1, p. 80-89. “The Dusk of incommensurability”, Social Epistemology. Vol.17, Nos. 2&3, p.109-112. www.informaworld.com |
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| 2002 | “Logic between Epistemology and Methodology”,
(in Hebrew). Iyyun. 51, Download PDF “Enunciati senza predicato: una nota sulla prova ontologica”, Nuova Civilta delle Macchine. XX No 1. 2002. |
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| 2001 | “Demarcation Problems in Linguistics”, Conceptus
84. |
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| 1999 | Review of S. Guttenplan, The Languages of Logic [1986]
1997: “On The Languages of Logic: An Introduction to Logic” Pragmatics & Cognition. vol 7. p. 239-242. |
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| Forthcoming | Introduction to the Hebrew edition of Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery. |
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| Review of W. V. O. Quine's Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist, Philosophy of the Social Sciences. |
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| In Preparation | Towards a General Theory of Communication | |
| Other Publications | Menard in Ephesus, a poem, appeared in Keshet Hechadash, Vol. 18, Download PDF | |
| Gali, a poem, appeared in Keshet Hechadash, Vol. 21, Download PDF | ||
| Heart Sutra, a poem, appeared in HO, Vol. 6, Download PDF | ||
| Scornful Days, a poem, appeared in Mitaam, Vol. 12, Download PDF | ||