Abstract:

The course discusses central concepts in philosophy.

We will start in ancient Greece and talk about Socrates who testified to himself "I know that I don't know" and Aristotle who used the term "physics" for the first time.

Then we will move to the new era and try to understand what Descartes meant when he said "I think, therefore I exist"

And why did John Locke insist that man is a "smooth board". We will finish with the philosophy of the twentieth century and think about Sartre's claim

according to which "man is an existence that precedes essence". These topics and other ideas from each of the periods will be discussed in class

Abstract:

The course analyzes engineering cases studies that have ethical significance.

These events will be divided into three categories according to the following questions:

What can be learned from the way engineers have addressed ethical dilemmas in past events?

What do we do today when we face engineering-ethical dilemmas?

What kind of engineering-ethical dilemmas are expected in the near future?

The course will be based on reading and analyzing articles, films and chapters in books.

All students will receive a weekly article which they will have to read first, and they will be divided into groups and each week a different group will be required to present the weekly article and conduct a discussion in the class.

At the end of the semester, each group will present an analysis

Abstract:

Understanding and writing a position paper is at the heart of the academic and research activity at its various levels.

reading opinion articles in the newspaper, understanding articles, writing a course thesis, a seminar paper,

Project summaries and writing an article in a journal - these are all examples of learning results, thinking and research that must be learned and practiced.

The purpose of the class is to give students tools

For writing and reading position papers in English and Hebrew as well as tools for writing academic papers of various types.

The basic skills provided: rules of correct writing, characteristics of theoretical writing, structures and strategies of writing,

Abstract:

It can be said that human thought and research in ancient times focused on the question of truth, while in modern times man searched for ways of certain knowledge.

But in the 19th and 20th centuries, the question of meaning settled at the center of human intellectual discourse.

As part of the search for meaning, the existential philosophy developed, commonly called "existentialism".

This philosophy examines the nature of man and seeks to stand for his relationship with the world.

In the course, we will read excerpts from the writings of the central thinkers of the existentialist thinkers and with the help of these writings

Abstract:

Course Description

This course examines the phenomenon of poverty in Israel from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, emphasizing that poverty is not merely an economic condition of resource scarcity but a social, cultural, and political phenomenon shaped by state and societal institutions. We will explore the processes through which the boundaries of "the poor" are constructed—determining who is included in this category and who is excluded—and analyze the social and political implications of these definitions.

The course will survey classical and contemporary theoretical approaches: from Berger and Luckmann’s social construction theory, through Foucault’s concepts of power-knowledge, to the Poverty-Aware Paradigm of Krumer-Nevo and Strier in Israel. We will discuss various poverty metrics (relative vs. absolute poverty, the Gini coefficient, and multidimensional indices) and question how measurement itself becomes a political tool that shapes policy.