972-50-8928462 [email protected] [email protected] Doron Avital
Current Position Head of the Georges Leven High-Tech Management School, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Director of the BRM Institute of Technology and Society (In Process), Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Education Columbia University in the City of New York, NY
Doctor of Philosophy, May 2004, Philosophy Dissertation: “Meaning in Motion: An Inquiry into the Logic of the Tractatus ”
MPhil Philosophy
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas Tel-Aviv University, Israel Master of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, October 1996, MA Thesis: “Two Threats to the Notion of ‘Content’ ”
Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences Tel Aviv University, Israel B.Sc, July 1985, Mathematics and Computer Science
AOS Logic , Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language, The Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
AOC Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Aesthetics, The Philosophy of Emanuel Kant
Teaching Experience Columbia University in the City of New York, NY Department of Philosophy:
Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Spring 2003 Elementary logic, Summer 2002 Self and Society, Spring 1998 Wittgenstein, Fall 1997 Teaching assistant, Introduction to Symbolic Logic, 1999-2000
Department of Computer Science: Research Assistant, 1999-2001
Tel-Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences Department of Statistics and Operations Research: Teaching Assistant, Game theory, 1987-1989 Experience Israel Defense Forces IDF Chief-Commanding-Officer of Israel’s most distinguished elite unit, Rank: lieutenant Colonel, 1992-94
Variety of commanding positions in the IDF, combined with Academic studies in the fields of Philosophy, Mathematics, Probability and Game Theory, Rank: Major, lieutenant Colonel, 1985-1992
Obligatory service, group commander in the IDF’s Paratroopers, Rank: Captain, 1977-82
BS Experience Business Development, Actimize, New York, NY Real-time analytics to the financial market, Summer 2004 Consulting\Internship, Jerusalem Venture Capital, New York, NY, Spring 2003
Awards President’s Fellowship, Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, 1995-2001 Yearly Scholarship: The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University, 1988 Teaching Award, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University, 1987-1989
Numerous Military and Special Operations Awards A letter of Recommendation from: Yitzhak Rabin, Late Prime Minister of Israel
Publications “The Possibilities of the Necessary” Metaphor, Israel, 1992
"Art as a Singular Rule" JAE Journal of Aesthetics Education, University of Illinois Press (Scheduled 2006)
In Process: "The Standard Metre in Paris" "Repeat" "The Tractatus Exemplified" "Meaning in Motion: An Inquiry into the Logic of the Tractatus"
Academic Referees Columbia University:
Haim Gaifman, Professor, [email protected]
Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor, [email protected]
Achille Varzi, Professor, [email protected]
Tel-Aviv University:
Zev Bechler, Professor, [email protected]
Isaac Ben-Israel, Professor, Maj. General (Res.) IDF, [email protected]
The Hebrew University in Jerusalem: Avishai Margalit, Professor, [email protected]