Philosophical persuasion
Did the rabbi succeed in convincing philosophers of his arguments? Did the rabbi succeed in “converting” any philosopher from any philosophy faculty?
Have you received criticism of your evidence for the existence of God, for example? I suppose they’re not very good if they didn’t convince you, but have you received any good substantive criticism of the matter?
I never tried. I didn’t get any reviews, except for the discussions on YNET about the series I posted there. See there in the talkbacks.
How does it work? Basically, can you get “peer review” for something like this? In the Faculty of Philosophy or I don't know..
There is no fixed mechanism. If someone reads and wants to comment or write a review, they do so.
One of the rabbi's articles states that the argument was approved by third-year philosophy students at Tel Aviv University. Doesn't that count?
I presented a version of the "theological" argument in a seminar for third-year students at Tel Aviv University and there were no objections.
It seems to me that the writer has some ideal image in his head of philosophers that doesn't really exist. It's enough to look at the link below about the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University to see that there is no real engagement there with philosophy or philosophical thinking per se. Everyone researches the philosophy of another field instead of presenting their own philosophical thinking (this is evident in David Enoch, who writes in a very predatory manner but without presenting any philosophical thinking that explains itself). In this situation, I wonder if they are really capable of reading the rabbi's books or even dealing with them.
https://philosophy.huji.ac.il/people/%D7%A1%D7%92%D7%9C/%D7%A1%D7%92%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%99
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