Yitzhak Melamed
Yitzhak Y. Melamed | |
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יצחק מלמד | |
| Born | March 7, 1968 Bnei Brak, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Children | Pandora and Rico Melamed |
| Parent(s) | Moshe and Sophie Melamed |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Tel Aviv University Yale University |
| Thesis | (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Della Rocca |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University |
Yitzhak Yohanan Melamed (Hebrew: יצחק יוֹחָנָן מלמד; born March 7, 1968) is an Israeli philosopher and a leading scholar of Spinoza and modern philosophy. He is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a master's degree in history & philosophy of science from Tel Aviv University and a philosophy PhD from Yale University. Melamed has won numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright (1996-8), American Academy for Jewish Research (2003-5), Mellon (2005), Humboldt (2011), NEH (2012), and ACLS-Burkhardt (2012) Fellowships, and taught intensive masterclasses at the University of Toronto (2016), École normale supérieure de Lyon (2016), Peking University (2017), and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2019).