Yehuda Elkana

Yehuda Elkana.

Yehuda Elkana (hebreo: יהודה אלקנה) nació en 1934 en Subotica, Yugoslavia y murió el 21 de septiembre de 2012​ en Jerusalén, Israel. Fue un distinguido historiador y filósofo de la ciencia, y un ex Presidente y Rector de la Universidad Central Europea en Budapest, Hungría. Estuvo casado con la Dra. Yehudit Elkana y tuvo cuatro hijos.

Obras

• Elkana, Yehuda (1974), The discovery of the conservation of energy, with a foreword by I. Bernard Cohen, Hutchinson Educational .
• Elkana, Yehuda (1981), «A Programmatic Attempt at an Anthropology of Knowledge», en Mendelsohn, Everett; Elkana, Yehuda, eds., Sciences and cultures: anthropological and historical studies of the sciences 5, D.Reidel, pp. 1-68, ISBN 978-90-277-1234-9 .
• Elkana, Yehuda (1986), Anthropologie der Erkenntnis. Die Entwicklung des Wissens als episches Theater einer listigen Vernunft, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-57940-4 .
• Elkana, Yehuda (1986), «Second-order thinking in classical Greece», en Eisenstadt, Shmuel Noah, ed., Origins and diversity of axial age civilizations, State University of New York Press, pp. 40-64, ISBN 978-0-88706-094-6 .
• Elkana, Yehuda (1994), Essays on the Cognitive and Political Organization of Science, Max Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte .
• Elkana, Yehuda (2002) [1984], «Transformations in realist philosophy of science from Victorian Baconism to the present day», en Mendelsohn, Everett, ed., Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences: Essays in Honour of I.Bernard Cohen, Cambridge University Press, pp. 487-526, ISBN 0-521-52485-7 .
• Elkana, Yehuda (2008), «Einstein and God», en Galison, Peter; Holton, Gerald James; Schweber, Silvan S., eds., Einstein for the 21st century: his legacy in science, art, and modern culture, Princeton University Press, pp. 35-47, ISBN 978-0-691-13520-5 .
• Elkana, Yehuda; Krastev, Ivan; Macamo, Elisio, eds. (2002), Unraveling ties: from social cohesion to new practices of connectedness, Campus Verlag, pp. 7-25, ISBN 3-593-36846-3 .
• Elkana, Yehuda (2006), «Unmasking Uncertainties and Embracing Contradictions», en Golde, Chris M; Walker, George E., eds., Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education, preparing stewards of the discipline, Carnegie essays on the doctorate, Jossey-Bass, pp. 65-96, ISBN 978-0-7879-8235-5 .

Referencias

• Eden, Vivian (10 November 1989), «Taboo Breakers», The Jerusalem Post .
• Lewis, Anthony (29 April 1982), «Abroad at Home; Other Israeli Voices», The New York Times: 31 .
• Segev, Tom; Watzman, Haim (2000), The seventh million: the Israelis and the Holocaust, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-8050-6660-9 .
• Agovino, Theresa (24 November 2000), «Controversial rector divides new university», The Chronicle of Higher Education: A63—A64 .
• CEU (6 August 2009), «John Shattuck Commences Term as New CEU President and Rector», Central European University .
• UWN (8 February 2009), «New head for Central European University», University World News .

• Datos: Q674208
• Multimedia: Yehuda Elkana / Q674208