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Avishai Margalit
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Avishai Margalit, professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will write a book on how care and trust cement relations of solidarity within groups. People's sense of solidarity is grounded in diverse attributes: kinship, age, gender, nationality, proximity, occupation. In Margalit's book, a sequel to two previous books, The Decent Society (1996) and Ethics of Memory (2001), he will single out the shared history of oppression and persecution and examine its force and validity as ground for solidarity. Are there obligations of solidarity among victims?
Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will examine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a real world test of her theories on how trust and cooperation can emerge from distrust. She is concerned with the question of whether parties mired in distrust of one another must resort to some external power to mediate their conflict, or if they can overcome distrust on their own.