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Dear All,</div>

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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHOP) at the University of Notre Dame Australia warmly invites

 you to our next Research Seminar.</span></p>

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 World<i> </i>(abstract below)</span></p>

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ABSTRACT: Historians of Jewish philosophy tend to trace its emergence in the Islamic world in the 9th-10th centuries, through the figure of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204; Spain, North Africa and Egypt), and then to explore the Maimonidean controversies and the

 flourishing of philosophical activity among the Jews of Western Christendom. Absent from most treatments is the period of roughly three centuries from Moses Maimonides until the Spanish Expulsion of 1492

<i>in Islamic lands</i>. In this seminar, we will explore the reasons for this lacuna and some salient features of this intellectual milieu, with a focus on three examples: Tanhum b. Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d.1291), David b. Joshua Maimonides (d.c. 1415), and

 a fascinating commentary on the philosophical chapters of Moses Maimonides' <i>Mishneh Torah</i> authored in the late 14th century.</div>

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<span style="color: rgb(23, 78, 134);"><b>Dr Catherine Wesselinoff</b></span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>

</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">| </span><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Lecturer</span></div>

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<b>The University of Notre Dame Australia.</b></div>

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<b>Recent Publications:</b></div>

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"Beauty's Comeback", <i>Debates in Aesthetics</i>, Vol 19. No. 2, 2025, pp 35-45.</div>

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"Apophatic Beauty in the <i>Hippias Major</i> and the <i>Symposium</i>", <i>The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism</i>, Vol. 82, Issue 1, 2024, pp 36-44.</div>

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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,

</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Routledge, 2023.</span></div>

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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; color: black;">"Is jealousy justifiable?"<i> The European Journal of Philosophy</i>, vol. 31, No. 3, 2023, pp 703-10.</span></p>

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