Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies: Jewish Scepticism (HCAS, KOFOR)

迈蒙尼德高级研究中心的目标-犹太怀疑论（MCAS-JS：FOR 2311）过去和现在都是为了解决犹太思想和文化中的怀疑论。正如在第一个应用中所阐述的，怀疑论是广义的，不仅包括对我们认识前景的特定哲学关注，而且还包括文化领域中的辩证策略、概念和态度。后者表现在一个“永久的学生”的开放和公正的调查，谁对世俗或启示的知识和接受权威的不同层面和系统怀有怀疑。根据一种现象的独特性质最好通过与其反面的比较和对比来揭示的假设，MCAS还支持对非犹太怀疑主义和（犹太）反怀疑主义的研究。（和反怀疑主义），MCAS开辟了一个新的研究领域，作为一个多方面的现象，对犹太怀疑论的充分研究需要几个学科的合作。因此，MCAS一直致力于创造一个刺激的跨学科环境，学术界专注于从古代到今天的（犹太人）怀疑论的各个方面。为此，MCAS举办了90多场不同形式的活动（如研讨会，讲座，辩证之夜，阅读之夜，会议，和怀疑工作室），这为学术和/或公共交流提供了各种平台.在其三年的存在，MCAS已经建立了犹太怀疑主义在犹太研究的学术景观：怀疑主义越来越被认为是犹太人思想和文化的一个关键因素，其确切的程度和性质尚待确定和探索。虽然第一个资助期的研究主要致力于调查从古代到近代早期的犹太怀疑论，在这一时期，在其预定的第二个资助期，MCAS寻求通过将其调查扩展到并包括二十世纪来发展对犹太怀疑论的研究，正如原始申请中所建议的那样。第二个资助期的研究将围绕四个年度关键专题展开，这些专题既突出了怀疑主义的犹太特色，也突出了一个更普遍的层面：（1）探究与怀疑之间的怀疑;（2）知识来源;（3）怀疑与语言;（4）怀疑的限度，信仰的限度。除了集中于上述四个重点课题外，还将推出两个额外的共同项目：《犹太传统怀疑论百科全书》和《犹太怀疑论原始资料》。此外，未发表的信件理查德H。波普金对犹太人的怀疑将是MCAS工作的一个亮点。

The goal of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies – Jewish Scepticism (MCAS–JS: FOR 2311) was and is to address scepticism in Jewish thought and culture. As formulated in the first application, scepticism is understood in a broad sense, not only comprising particular philosophical concerns about our epistemic prospect, but also including dialectical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field. The latter are manifested in the open and unbiased enquiry of a “perpetual student,” who harbours doubts about different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and received authorities. Acting on the assumption that the distinctive nature of a phenomenon is best revealed in comparison and contrast to its opposite, MCAS has also supported research on non-Jewish scepticism and (Jewish) anti-scepticism.In addressing the question of Jewish scepticism (and anti-scepticism), MCAS opened up a new field of research, whose fecundity is testified by more than 100 publications produced in the previous three years of its existence.Being a multifaceted phenomenon, the adequate study of Jewish scepticism requires the cooperation of several disciplines. Hence MCAS has constantly strived to create a stimulating interdisciplinary environment with a scholarly community focusing on various aspects of (Jewish) scepticism from antiquity until today. To this end, MCAS has hosted over 90 events in different formats (such as workshops, lectures, dialectical evenings, reading evenings, conferences, and sceptical ateliers), which have provided various platforms for scholarly and/or public exchange.In its three years of existence, MCAS has already established Jewish scepticism in the scholarly landscape of Jewish studies: scepticism is increasingly acknowledged as a pivotal element of Jewish thought and culture, whose precise extent and nature are yet to be determined and explored.While research in the first funding period was primarily devoted to the investigation of Jewish scepticism from antiquity until the early modern period, in its intended second funding period, MCAS seeks to evolve research into Jewish scepticism by extending its investigation up to and including the twentieth century, as suggested in the original application. The research in the second funding period shall be structured around four annual key topics, which highlight both a specifically Jewish dimension of scepticism and a more general dimension: (1) scepticism between enquiry and doubt; (2) sources of knowledge; (3) scepticism and language; (4) limits of scepticism, limits of faith.In addition to focusing on the above four key topics, two additional common projects will be launched: the Encyclopaedia of Scpeticism in Jewish Tradition and a Sourcebook of Jewish Scepticism. Furthermore, the unpublished letters of Richard H. Popkin on Jewish scepticism will be a highlight of MCAS’s work.