Aug 30, 2017 By: yunews
Dr. David Shatz, Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Thought and chair of the department of philosophy at , has had a busy year as an editor, writer and presenter.
In early December 2016, Shatz presented a paper titled 鈥淰irtue and the Pursuit of Theodicy鈥� at the third meeting of a two-year international workshop, 鈥淰irtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life,鈥� sponsored by the University of Chicago, the University of South Carolina and the John Templeton Foundation. On June 4-8, he participated in the spring meeting of the same group, presenting a paper on 鈥淟aw and Virtue in Jewish Tradition.鈥�
As an editor, he will work on a forthcoming volume on the philosophy of religion published by Cengage, and in May published a new volume of The Torah u-Madda Journal.
As an author, his chapter 鈥淐an Halakhah Survive Negative Theology?鈥� appeared in Negative Theology As Modernity, edited by Michael Fagenblat and published by Indiana University Press. He was involved in publishing a book of essays by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik titled Halakhic Morality and is continuing work on his Judaism: A Philosophical Portrait (under contract with Cambridge University Press).