''Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly'' ("Iyyun" literally means "inquiry" or "study") is published by the S. H. Bergman Center for Philosophical Studies of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. It was established in 1945 as a

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philosophical quarterly by

Martin Buber Martin Buber ( he, מרטין בובר; german: Martin Buber; yi, מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism c ...

, S. H. Bergman, and

Julius Guttmann Julius Guttmann (Hebrew: יוליוס גוטמן), born Yitzchak Guttmann (15 April 1880 in Hildesheim – 19 May 1950 in Jerusalem), was a German-born rabbi, Jewish theologian, and philosopher of religion. Biography Julius was born to Jakob Gut ...

. As of volume 39 (1990), ''Iyyun'' appears four times a year: January and July in

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, April and October in

. Each English issue carries abstracts of the articles in the previous Hebrew issue. Volume 1, no. 1 was published in October 1945, and it included papers by

Ernst Cassirer Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( , ; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Aft ...

Felix Weltsch Felix Weltsch (6 October 1884, Prague – 9 November 1964, Jerusalem), was a German language, German-speaking Jewish librarian, philosopher, author, editor, publisher and journalist. A close friend of Max Brod, Ludwig Winder and Franz Kafka, h ...

, Fritz Heinemann,

Nathan Rotenstreich Nathan Rotenstreich ( he, נתן רוטנשטרייך; born 31 March 1914, died 11 October 1993) was an Israeli professor of philosophy. Biography Nathan Rotenstreich (31.3.1914 – 11.10.1993) was born in Sambir, Galicia, then in Austria-Hungar ...

, and others. A double issue (vol. 1, nos. 2-3) followed in November 1946, and the fourth one appeared in July 1949, that is, from the end of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

and through the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...

. Ever since January 1951 (vol. 2, no. 1), ''Iyyun'' has appeared regularly. The name ''Iyyun'' derives from the traditional Rabbinic-term for in depth study; see .

Notable articles

The following is a list of some notable articles in ''Iyyun'': *"A Problem in the Empiricist Construal of Theories" (1972) - Carl G. Hempel (Hebrew with English summary) *"The Uniqueness of the Natural Numbers" (1990) - Charles Parsons *"A Lecture on Maimonides' ''Guide of the Perplexed''" (1998) -

Shlomo Pines Shlomo Pines (; ; August 5, 1908 in Charenton-le-Pont – January 9, 1990 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, best known for his English translation of Maimonides' ''Guide of the Perplexed''. Biography Pines was ...

(Hebrew) *"Consciousness and the Mind" (2002) - David M. Rosenthal *"Self-knowledge, Intentionality, and Normativity" (2005) -

Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami (born 28 February 1950) is an Indian philosopher. He has been in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University since 1985 after spending two years as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Bilgr ...

*"On the Usefulness of final ends" - Harry Frankfurt *"Dialogism and the Scientific Method" (2007) - Mara Beller *"A Note on Steiner on Wittgenstein, Godel, and Tarski" (2008) -

Hilary Putnam Hilary Whitehall Putnam (; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist, and a major figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He made significant contributions ...

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