Aaron Ben Ze'ev
 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Publications

 
 

Personal details

Office Address: Research Authority,
University of Haifa, Haifa 31905,
ISRAEL.
Tel: 972-4-8240930
Fax: 972-4-8342101
e-mail: benzeev@research.haifa.ac.il
 

Current Academic ranks

  • Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, 1992-
 

Current offices in university academic administration

  • Dean of Research, University of Haifa, 1995-
  • Chairman, University of Haifa Press, 1995-
 

Scholarly activities outside the university

Referee for the following journals:

  • Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior;
  • Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
  • Iyyun
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Philosophy of Science
  • New Ideas in Psychology
  • Theory and Psychology
  • Cognition and Emotion
  • Pragmatics & Cognition
 

Active participation in scholarly conferences

  • The Society for Philosophy and Psychology, The University of Chicago, USA, 1981: "The Status of Cognitive Activities in the Ecological Approach to Perception."
  • Israeli Association for Philosophy, Technion, Israel, 1982: "Describing the Psychological Reality."
  • Israeli Association for Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 1983: "The Moral Subject and Object."
  • Israeli Association for Philosophy, Hebrew University, Israel, 1984: "Schemata and Inferences."
  • International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, 1984: "The Description of Mental States."
  • Israeli Association for Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel, 1985: "Berkeley's Notion of 'Suggestion'."
  • International Bicentennial Conference on the Philosophy of Thomas Reid, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1985: "Is There any Conflict Between Reid's Theory of Ideas and his Sensation-Perception Distinction."
  • Fourth International Conference on Event Perception and Action, Trieste, Italy, 1987: "Direct Epistemic Perception."
  • Israeli Association for Philosophy, Technion, Israel, 1988: "Emotions and Morality."
  • Symposium on Philosophy and the Emotions, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, 1989: "Emotional and Moral Evaluations."
  • Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, USA, 1989: "Can We Remember Our Pains?"
  • International Conference on Event Perception and Action, Miami University, USA, 1989: "Perceptual Learning: Two Paradigms."
  • Symposium on Epistemology in the Social Sciences, University of Southern California, USA, 1989, "The Growth of Knowledge."
  • Israeli Association for Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 1990, "Anger and Hate."
  • Analysis 50, Cambridge University, 1990, England, "Why Did Psammenitus not Pity his Son?"
  • International Conference on Education Against Hate, University of Haifa, Israel, 1990, "What is Wrong with Hatred?"
  • Spinoza by 2000: The Jerusalem Conferences, The Jerusalem Spinoza Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, 1991, "Emotions and Mutability: A Spinozistic Account."
  • World Conference on Philosophy, Nairobi, Kenya, 1991, "Envy and Inequality."
  • International Society of Value Inquiry, Nairobi, Kenya, 1991, "The Virtue of Modesty."
  • Israeli Association for Psychology, Hebrew University, Israel, 1991:
    • "Envy and Reducing Social Gaps";
    • "Emotions and Morality";
    • "The Direct and Indirect Approaches to Perception."
  • Israeli Society for Sex Therapy, Jerusalem, Israel, 1991: "Romantic Love and Sexual Attraction."
  • Second International Meeting of the Pittsburgh Fellowship, Athens, Greece, 1992: "Variables of Emotional Intensity."
  • International Society for Research on Emotions, Pittsburgh, USA, 1992: "Emotions: A Philosophical Persepctive."
  • First European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Provence, France, 1993: "Envy and Inequality."
  • The International Society for Value Inquiry, Helsinki, Finland, 1993: "Pleasure-In-Others'-Misfortunes and Envy."
  • Tenth International Social Philosophy Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 1993: "Emotional Intensity."
  • International Society for Research on Emotions, Cambridge, England, 1994: "Pleasure-In-Others'-Misfortunes."
  • Ontario Philosophical Society Conference, York University, Canada, 1994: "Emotional Intensity."
  • The American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, USA, 1995: "Appraisal Theories of Emotions."
  • Ontario Society for the Study of Argumantation, Brock University, Canada, 1995: "Emotions and Argumentation."
  • Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada, 1995: "Emotions and Morality."
  • Fifth Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, July 1996: Emotional Intensity."
  • International Society for Research on Emotions, Toronto, Canada, August, 1996: "Emotions and Imagination."
  • XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, Canada, August, 1996: "Emotional Intensity."
 

Recent colloquium talks and other invited addresses

  • Department of Philosophy, Davidson College, USA (1988)
  • Department Philosophy, Denison University, (1989)
  • Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, USA, (1989)
  • Departments of Psychology and Philosophy, Franklin and Marshal College, USA, (1989)
  • Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA, (1989)
  • Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, USA, (1989)
  • Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University (1989)
  • Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University (1990)
  • Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University (1991)
  • Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University (1992)
  • Department of Philosophy, Bar-Illan University (1994)
  • Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto (1994)
  • Center for Applied Cognitive Science, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (1994)
 

Publications

  • Ph.D. Dissertation

    Perception as a Cognitive System (1981). Adviser: Professor Stephen Toulmin.
 

Books

  • Being Mental: Discussions in the Philosophy of Mind (Haifa: University of Haifa Press, 1996), (Hebrew).
  • The Perceptual System: Philosophical and Psychological Considerations (New York: Peter Lang, 1993).
  • Aristotle's On the Soul (Tel-Aviv: Afic, 1989), (Hebrew).

Edited Books

  • Good Gossip (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994). A somewhat different Hebrew version was published by Hakibbutz Hamehuad (Tel-Aviv 1993). The English version is edited with Robert Goodman, the Hebrew version with Avinoam Ben-Ze'ev.
 

Articles

  • "Mercy, Pity, and Compassion", in A. Brien (ed.), The Quality of Mercy (Amsterdam: Rodopi: forthcoming).
  • "The alternative to the storehouse metaphor", The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming).
  • A. Ben-Ze'ev & K. Oatley, "The Development of Social Emotions and a Constructor Agent", The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming).
  • "Envy and Jealousy", Dictionnaire de Philosophie Morale (forthcoming) (French).
  • "Emotions and Change: A Spinozistic Account", In Y. Yuval (ed.), Spinoza as Psychologist (Brill: forthcoming).
  • "Components and Variables of Emotional Intensity", in D. Anapolitanos (ed.), Proceedings of the Athens Conference in Philosophy of Science (Athens: University of Athens Press, forthcoming).
  • "Emotions and morality", Journal of Value Inquiry (1997), 1-18.
  • "Appraisal Theories of Emotions", Journal of Philosophical Research (1997).
  • "Emotional Intensity", Theory & Psychology 6 (1996).
  • "Typical Emotions", in W. O'Donohue and R. Kitchener (eds.), Psychology and Philosophy (Lonodn: Sage, 1996).
  • "Romantic Love and Sexual Attraction", Philosophia (1996).
  • "Emotions and Argumentation", Informal Logic (1996).
  • A. Ben-Ze'ev & K. Oatley, "The intentional and social nature of human emotions: Recconsideration of the distinctions between basic and non-basic emotions", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 26 (1996), 81-94.
  • "Explaining Cognitive Progress", In R. F. Goodman and W. R. Fisher (eds.), Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines (Albany: State University of New York, 1995), 41-56.
  • "Emotions", and "Philosophy of Psychology", in Encyclopaedia Hebraica, (Tel-Aviv: Sifriat Poalim, 1995) (Hebrew).
  • "Pity and Compassion", In A. Nemder (ed.), Virtues (1995), 31-47, (Hebrew).
  • "Gossip, Emotions, and Morality", Iyyun, 43 (1994), 417-426 (Hebrew).
  • "The Vindication of Gossip", in R. Goodman and A. Ben-Ze'ev (eds.), Good Gossip (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994), 11-24.
  • "Understanding Emotions: A review of Lazarus' Emotion and Adaptation, and Oatley's Best Laid Schemes", History of European Ideas, 18 (1994), 97-100.
  • "The Virtue of Modesty", American Philosophical Quarterly, 30 (1993), 235-246.
  • "Envy and Pity", International Philosophical Quarterly, 33, (1993), 3-19.
  • "You Always Hurt the One You Love", Journal of Value Inquiry, 27 (1993), 487-495.
  • "Another Look at Pleasure-in-Others'-Misfortune", Iyyun, 42 (1993), 431-440.
  • "Emotions, Morality, and Religion", in D. Statman and A. Sagi (eds.), Studies in Ethics and Religion (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1993), 11-22 (Hebrew).
  • "Envy and Inequality", Journal of Philosophy, 89 (1992), 551-581.
  • "Problems with Explaining the Perceptual Environment", The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15 (1992), 30-31.
  • "Anger and Hate", Journal of Social Philosophy, 23 (1992), 85-110.
  • "Emotional and Moral Evaluations", Metaphilosophy, 23 (1992), 214-229.
  • "Pleasure-in-Others'-Misfortune", Iyyun, 41 (1992), 41-61.
  • "Cognitive Development: Two Paradigms", in H. G. Geissler, S. W. Link, and J. T. Townsend (eds.) Cognition, Information Processing and Psychophysics: Basic Issues (Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1992), 67-90.
  • "The Nature of Prejudices", in Av. Ben-Ze'ev et al (eds.) Prejudices (Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hammehuad, 1991) (Hebrew).
  • "Seeing our Seeing and Knowing our Knowing", Man and World, 24 (1991), 89-92.
  • "Envy and Jealousy", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 20 (1990), 487-516.
  • "Describing the Emotions", Philosophical Psychology, 3 (1990), 305-317.
  • "Conscious and Unconscious States", Philosophical Studies, 32 (Ireland), (1990), 44-62.
  • "Why Did Psammenitus not Pity his Son?", Analysis, 50 (1990), 118-126.
  • "Reid and the Cartesian Framework", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 26 (1990), 38-47.
  • "Explaining the Subject-Object Relation in Perception", Social Research, 56 (1989), 511-543.
  • "Reid's Opposition to the Theory of Ideas", in M. Dalgarno and E. Matthews (eds.), The Philosophy of Thomas Reid (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989), 91-101.
  • "Reexamining Berkeley's Notion of Suggestion", Conceptus, 23 (1989), 21-30.
  • "The Relational Nature of Cognition", International Studies in Philosophy, 21 (1989), 1-12.
  • "The Schema Paradigm in Perception", Journal of Mind and Behavior, 9 (1988), 487-513.
  • "Can Nonpure Perception be Direct?" Philosophical Quarterly, 38 (1988), 315-325.
  • "Values and Reality in the Kibbutz", in D. Zait (ed.), Together: The Kibbutz Today (Jerusalem: Ma`alot, 1988), 23-47 (Hebrew).
  • "The Nature of Emotions", Philosophical Studies, 52 (1987), 393-409.
  • "A Critique of the Inferential Paradigm in Perception", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 17 (1987), 243-263.
  • "Making Mental Properties More Natural", The Monist, 69 (1986),434-446.
  • "Two Approaches to Memory", Philosophical Investigations, 9 (1986), 288-301.
  • "Lewis Predicament Regarding the Given", The New Scholasticism, 60 (1986), 366-374.
  • "Reid's Direct Approach to Perception", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 17 (1986), 99-114.
  • "Aristotle, Final Cause, and The Intentional Stance", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8 (1985), 758-759.
  • "The Description of Mental States", in R.M. Chisholm et al. (eds.), Philosophy of Mind: Proceedings of the 9th International Wittgenstein-Symposium (Wien: HPT, 1985), 281-284.
  • "From 'Camp' to 'Home': The Development of the Kibbutz", The Kibbutz, 11 (1985), 101-115 (Hebrew).
  • "The Passivity Assumption of the Sensation- Perception Distinction", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 35 (1984), 327-343.
  • "What is a Perceptual Mistake?", Journal of Mind and Behavior, 5 (1984), 261-278.
  • "Two Concepts of the Given", Dialogos, 19 (1984), 159-164.
  • "Aristotle on Perceptual Truth and Falsity", Apeiron, 18 (1984), 118-125.
  • "The Moral Subject and Object", Iyyun, 33 (1984), 480-497 (Hebrew).
  • A. Ben-Ze'ev & M. Strauss, "The Dualistic Approach to Perception", Man and World, 17 (1984), 3-18.
  • "The Kantian Revolution in Perception", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 14 (1984), 69-84.
  • "Psychological Categorization", Methodology and Science, 16 (1983), 243-256.
  • "Toward a Different Approach to Perception", International Philosophical Quarterly, 23 (1983), 45-64.
  • "Perceptual Mistakes", Philosophical Inquiry, 5 (1983), 145-153.
  • "Who is a Rational Agent?", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 12 (1982), 647-661.
  • "J.J. Gibson and the Ecological Approach to Perception", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 12 (1981), 107-139.
  • "G.E. Moore and the Relation Between Intrinsic Value and Human Activity", Journal of Value Inquiry, 15 (1981), 69-78.
  • "The Analytic, Synthetic and A Priori", Scientia, 144 (1979), 481-493.
   
   
   

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