Arthur Hyman
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Academic career
Arthur Hyman was Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School until 2008, succeeded by David BergerDavid Berger
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. He has taught philosophy at Yeshiva University for 40 years. He has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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, Yale University
Yale University
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, Columbia University
Columbia University
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and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Hyman’s books and articles on medieval Jewish philosophy
Philosophy
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have been published worldwide; most noteworthy are his collections of essays on medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic philosophy, and his critical edition of Averroes
Averroes
' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...
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Hyman has made major contributions in medieval Jewish scholarship and Jewish studies
Jewish studies
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. Hyman served as president of both the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy is a learned society established in 1978 to support teaching and research relating to medieval and renaissance philosophy. Presidents of the society have included Arthur Hyman, Marilyn Adams, James Ross, Jorge Gracia, Mary Clark, and R. James Long....
. He has also served on the board of directors of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Hyman was married to Dr. Ruth Link-Salinger and has three sons, Jeremy, Michael and Joseph.
Scholarship
Hyman’s publications include four volumes of Maimonidean Studies, which he edited, a critical edition of the Hebrew text and an English translation of AverroesAverroes
' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...
’ De Substantia Orbis, and Essays in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Philosophy, which he edited while contributing an essay. He also co-edited the Salo W. Baron Jubilee Volume and the Harry A. Wolfson Jubilee Volume and co-authored Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions. Hyman's articles include “Maimonide, partisan du libre arbitre ou déterministe?” in Actes du Colloque Maïmonide, “Averroes’ Theory of the Intellect and the Ancient Commentators,” in Averroes and the Aristotelian Tradition, “Spinoza on Possibility and Contingency,” in Meetings of the Minds: The Relations between Medieval and Classical Modern European Philosophy, and “Medieval Jewish Philosophy as Philosophy, as Exegesis, and as Polemic,” in Miscellanea Mediaevalia.