Noa Shein

Noa Shein 11 Pinkas St. Apt. 7 Tel Aviv, 62662, Israel Email: [email protected]

Education: Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2006 M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2001 B.A., Philosophy with honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1999  Visiting Graduate Student at U.C. Berkeley Fall 2003-Spring 2005 Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Medicine and Technology, The Hebrew University, 2009Area of Specialization: History of Early Modern Philosophy Areas of Competence: History of Ancient Philosophy, History of Medieval Philosophy Research: Dissertation: “The Structure of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Attributes, Finite Minds and the Infinite Intellect” Committee: Alan Nelson (Chair), Nicholas Jolley and Paul Hoffman Publications:  “Spinoza’s Theory of Attributes,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-attributes/).  “The False Dichotomy between Objective and Subjective Interpretations of Spinoza’s Theory of Attributes,” The British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 17, Issue 3 (June, 2009).  Review of Meaning in Spinoza’s Method by Aaron Garrett (co-authored with Alan Nelson) The Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 43 no.1, January 2005. Under Review:  “Causation as Determination and the Infinite Network of Finite Modes”  “Confusion and the Foundation for Adequacy in Human Minds” In Progress: Articles:  “Adequacy in Human Minds: Quantum in se est”  “The Structure of the Infinite Intellect in Spinoza”  “Newton and Spinoza on the Nature of Space” Books:  The Structure of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: The Scope and Power of the Human Intellect (provisional title) Fellowships, Seminars and Awards:  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Princeton University, Summer 2010. Topic: Galileo, Descartes and Hobbes: Philosophy and Science, Politics and Religion. Directors: Daniel Garber and Roger Ariew.

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University, 2009-2010 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Haifa, 2006–2008 U.C. Irvine Dissertation Fellowship in Humanities, 2003 U.C. Irvine Matchette Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2003 University of California Regents’ Dissertation Fellowship, 2003 U.C. Irvine Humanities Graduate Essay Award, 2003 U.C. Irvine Humanities Center Summer Stipend, 2002 U.C. Irvine Humanities Research Grant, 2002 U.C. Irvine Humanities Graduate Essay Award, 2000 University of California Regents’ Fellowship in Humanities, 1999-2000 Phi Beta Kappa, Berkeley chapter, 1999

Refereed and Invited Conferences and Presentations:  Hebrew University, Colloquia Series (November 2009)  Bar Ilan University, Colloquia Series (November 2009)  San Francisco State, Colloquia Series (September 2009)  University of Turku (Finland), Colloquia Series (August 2009)  Leiden-Duke Early Modern Workshop on Funky Causation (Leiden, September 2008)  Tel Aviv University, Colloquia Series (January 2008)  Ben-Gurion University, Colloquia Series (November 2007)  University of Haifa, Colloquia Series (November 2007)  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (September 2007)  The Israeli Colloquium for Early Modern Philosophy (June 2007)  The New Israeli Association of Philosophy Conference (February 2007)  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Colloquia Series (November 2006)  Ben-Gurion University, Colloquia Series (November 2006)  University of Haifa, Colloquia Series (November 2006)  Haifa Philosophy Department Conference (May 2006)  University of Massachusetts, Boston (February 2005)  Yale University (October, 2004)  University of Portland (April, 2004)  Midwest Early Modern Philosophy Conference in collaboration with the Centro Interdipartimentali Di Studi Su Descartes and the Centre D’Estudes Cartesiennes (Lecce, Italy, December, 2002)  Southern California Philosophy Conference (October, 2002)  Southwestern Early Modern Philosophy Conference (September, 2002) Presentations:  California College of the Arts, guest lecture (September 2006): “Leibniz and Newton on the Notion of Space”  Cartesian Circle-UC Irvine (May, 2005): “1P28: How to Construe the Regress”  California College of the Arts, guest lecture (November 2005): “What is Space like? Descartes, Hume, Leibniz, Newton and Kant on Space”  California College of the Arts, guest lecture (November, 2004): “Descartes and Kant on the Notion of Space”  California College of the Arts, guest lecture (2002 and 2003): “Descartes’ First Meditation”  U.C. Irvine Graduate Colloquium Series (September, 2002): “Omniscience and the Infinite Intellect”  U.C. Irvine Graduate Colloquium Series (May, 2002): “Spinoza’s Theory of Attributes”

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Professional Service:  Founder and organizer of the U.C. Irvine Graduate Student Colloquia Series  Referee for Daat (journal dedicated to Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah published by Bar Ilan University). Teaching Experience: “Descartes and Newton on Space”—Ben Gurion University (Fall 2010) “History of Modern Philosophy”—Ben Gurion University (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) “Mind, Body and Everything in Between”—Bar Ilan (Fall 2010) “Spinoza”—Bar Ilan University, graduate seminar (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) “History of Modern Philosophy”, Bar Ilan University (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) “Philosophical Perspectives on Space”—Technion (School of Architecture and City Planning), graduate seminar (Spring 2009) “Thinking God—Medieval Philosophy”—Ben Gurion University, Overseas Program (Spring-2009) “Introduction to Philosophy—Metaphysics and Epistemology”—Ben Gurion University (Eilat Campus), (Fall 2008) “Critical Thinking”—Ben Gurion University (Eilat Campus), (Fall 2008) “Spinoza”—Bar Ilan University, graduate seminar (Spring 2008) “Mind, Body and Everything in Between”—University of Haifa (Spring 2008) At U.C. Berkeley: Teaching Assistant: Philosophy of Science, (Paul Skokowski), Fall 2005 History of Modern Philosophy, (Edwin McCann), Spring 2005 History of Ancient Philosophy, (John MacFarlane), Fall 2004 History of Modern Philosophy, (Hannah Ginsborg), Spring 2004 At U.C. Irvine: Instructor with full responsibility for all lectures and evaluations: History of Medieval Philosophy, Winter 2002 Teaching Associate (responsible for all lectures and evaluations for a pre-designed course): Humanities Core (interdisciplinary humanities course), Fall 2002 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Philosophy, (Martin Schwab), Spring 2003 History of Modern Philosophy, (Alan Nelson), Spring 2002 History of Ancient Philosophy, (Ken Brown), Fall 2001 Introduction to Ethics, (Anne Margaret Baxley), Spring 2001 Introduction to Philosophy, (Nicholas White), Winter 2001 History of Ancient Philosophy, (Nicholas White), Fall 2000 Languages: Native: Hebrew, English and Spanish Reading only: French, Latin References (selection): Prof. Alan Nelson, Department of Philosophy, UNC—Chapel Hill, [email protected] Prof. Amihud Gilead, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Haifa, [email protected] Prof. Yakir Levin, Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, [email protected] Prof. Yizhak Melamed, Dept. of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, [email protected] Prof. Nicholas Jolley, Department of Philosophy, UC Irvine, [email protected]

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Prof. Michael Della Rocca, Department of Philosophy, Yale University, [email protected] Prof. Olli Koistinen, Department of Philosophy, University of Turku, Finland, [email protected]

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