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Avital Pilpel

Dr Avital Pilpel is a lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Haifa and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC)… [More]
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December 6, 2012
8:01 pm

The fallacy of success

Recently, Israel has been inundated by new “colleges of success” that attempt to teach one how to get rich. Such colleges collect fees in return for courses and......

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October 11, 2012
3:08 pm

Popper and pundits, or why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing

The controversy concerning the decision of the Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE) to temporarily shut down the political science department at Ben Gurion University (BGU), based in part......

August 31, 2012
2:59 pm

Thoughts about Hebrew Book Week

In The World of Yesterday, Stephan Zweig makes fun of his high school Latin teacher, who didn’t realize Zweig was hiding Rilke’s latest poems inside his textbook. Today, most......