Dr. Idit Chikurel

Personal information

Idit Chikurel is a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Minerva Stiftung. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy of Science (2019), an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (2011) and a B.A. in Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies (2005), all at Tel Aviv University. She has conducted several postdoctoral projects at the University of Hamburg, University of Potsdam, Max Planck Institute of Science, Humboldt University and ETH Zurich. She was recently a visiting lecturer at Berlin Institute of Technology and the University of Potsdam, and formerly an exchange graduate student at Paris-Sorbonne – Paris IV University.

Research interests

Idit's research interests are in the philosophy and history of science, especially of mathematics, as well as in the history of philosophy. She is focused on epistemological and metaphysical questions, namely on the use of mathematical knowledge in the construction of philosophical arguments. Currently she is interested in conceptions of ampliative analysis and the role of mathematics in the formation of these conceptions, as well as in their connection to theories of grounding and of consequences.

Selected publications

• Chikurel, I. Salomon Maimon's Theory of Invention: Scientific Genius, Analysis and Euclidean Geometry. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter (2020)
• Chikurel, I. Maimon as a Baconian: Natural Histories, Induction, and the Ladder of Certainty. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (published online 2024/forthcoming in print).
• Chikurel, I. Scepticism and Certainty in Maimon's Theory of Invention. Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion 3 (forthcoming)
• Chikurel, I. Analysis and Necessity in Arithmetic in Light of Maimon's Concept of Number as Ratio. Kant-Studien 114 (1): 33-67 (2023).
• Chikurel I. Ma’aseh Choshev. In: Reihe II: Hebräische Schriften, Band I: 1778, Maimon Gesamtausgabe, Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Ed.), Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog Verlag (in progress).