Title
Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy
Degree
Ph.D., New York University
Field of Specialty
Metaphysics. Epistemology. Medical ethics.
Contact Information
Rabb Graduate Center 331
781-736-2785
hirsch@brandeis.edu
Personal Web Page
Eli Hirsch
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Eli Hirsch has published extensively in the area of Metaphysics, including The Concept of Identity, Dividing Reality, and Quantifier Variance and Realism, all with Oxford University Press. He has recently been working in Epistemology, and his book Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt: A Philosophical Dialogue was published by Bloomsbury Press in January 2018. He teaches a variety of courses, including Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Religion.
Eli Hirsch Homepage: https://sites.google.com/a/brandeis.edu/eli-hirsch/
Publications
Hirsch, Eli. "Negligence and Forsseable Damage: The Talmudic Eye of Vigilance." Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy. Ed. Paul Franks and Yitzak Malamed. NY: Oxford University Press, 2021 (forthcoming)
Hirsch, Eli. "“Negligence and Forseeable Damage: The Talmudic Eye of Vigilance”." Encyclopedia of Jewish Philosophy. Ed. Yitzak Malamud., 2021 (forthcoming)
Hirsch, Eli. "“Three degrees of Carnapian Tolerance”." Ontology After Carnap. Ed. S. Blatti and S. Laponte. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2014 (forthcoming)
Hirsch, Eli. "Ontology by Stipulation." The Language of Ontology. Ed. James Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021
Hirsch, Eli. "Talmudic Destiny." Jewish Philosohy in an Analytif Age. Ed. S. Lebens, D. Rabinowitz, A. Segal. NY: Oxford University Press, 2019
Hirsch, Eli/Jared Warremn. "“Quanitfier Variance”." Handbook to Relativism. Routledge, 2019
Hirsch, Eli/Jenny, Matthias, “A Note on Safety and Iterated Knowledge” forthcoming in Grazer Philosophischen Studien. "“A Note on Safety and Iterated Knowledge”." Grazer Philosophischen Studien., 2019
Hirsch, Eli. Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Hirsch, Eli/Jarred Warren. "Quantifier Variance and the Demand for a Semantics." Philosophy and Phenomenological Review (2017).
Hirsch, Eli. "“Charity To Charity”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 86. 2 (2014): 435-42.
Hirsch, Eli. "“Comments of Theodore Sider’s Writing the Book of the World,." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 87. (2014): 733-54.
Hirsch, Eli. Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Hirsch, Eli. "Diabolical Mysticism, Death, and Skepticism." Philosophic Exchange 39. (2010): 17-35 (2009).
Hirsch, Eli. "Kripke's Argument Against Materialism." The Waning of Materialism. Ed. George Bealer. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2010
Hirsch, Eli. "Ontology and Alternative Languages." Metametaphysics. Ed. Chalmers, et. al. OUP, 2009
Hirsch, Eli. "Language, Ontology, and Structure." Nous (2008).
Hirsch, Eli. "¿Ontological Arguments: Interpretive Charity and Quantifier Variance¿, in Metaphysical Debates (Oxford University Press).", 2008
Hirsch, Eli. "¿Rashi¿s view of the Open Future: Indeterminateness and Bivalence¿, in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2006).", 2007
Hirsch, Eli. Dividing Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hirsch, Eli. The Concept of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Hirsch, Eli. The Persistence of Objects. Philadelphia: Philosophical Monographs, 1976.
Courses Taught
| PHIL | 23b | Biomedical Ethics |
| PHIL | 24a | Philosophy of Religion |
| PHIL | 114b | Topics in Ethical Theory |
| PHIL | 136a | Personal Identity |
| PHIL | 144a | Philosophical Problems of Space and Time |
| PHIL | 145b | Topics in the Philosophy of Language |
| PHIL | 182a | Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations |
| PHIL | 239a | Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics |