Dr. Yosef Z. Liebersohn Higher Education 2000-2002 Ph.D. (with Highest Distinction) in Philosophy, Bar Ilan University Dissertation: The Dispute Concerning Rhetoric in Hellenistic Thought and its Background Advisor: Prof. J. Glucker 1999-2000 B.A. in Jewish Philosophy, Bar Ilan University 1993-1997 M.A. in Philosophy, Bar Ilan University Disseration: Seneca philosophia Medicus: A philosophical Analysis of De Constantia Sapientisas a model for analysing Seneca's Dialogi Advisor: Prof. J. Glucker 1989-1992 B.A. in Philosophy, Bar Ilan University Academic Awards and Grants 2012 "Very-good" Grade for a Research Proposal on Epicurus System of Pleasures- A new Reconstruction, The Israeli Sciense Foundation 2012 Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching 1999-2002 Rottenstreich Grant for Outstanding Doctoratin Humanities 1995 Grant for Outstanding M.A., the Grants and Prizes Committee, Bar-Ilan University 1992 Prize for Outstanding B.A., Philosophy Department, Bar-Ilan University Career:
2012-Present Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Bar-Ilan University 2005-2012 Lecturer, Department of History, Bar-Ilan University 2005-2011 Lecturer, Center for Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University 2004-2011 Lecturer, the Interdisciplinary College Herzlia (IDC) 1998-2002 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University 1994-1998 Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University Selected Academic Conferences and Presentations 2014 "Gorgias the Sophist and the birth of Rhetoric,"The 4th Conference of IAPS, University of Thessaloniki. 2014 "Using the Septuagint to Restore the Original Meaning of the Hebrew Text,"The 17th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association International Congress, University of Malaga in Marbella (Spain) "האם תיתכן ידידות לשמה? על מקומה של ידידות באתיקה הדוניסטית", על חידות 3102 מחקריות והתענוג שבפתרונן: כנס הפקולטה למדעי הרוח, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן. 2013 "What is the Proper Meaning of Kinetic and Katastematic Pleasures for Epicurus?" 23rd World Congress of Philosophy (Athens, Greece) 2012 "Are Kinetic pleasures really necessary for Eudaimonia? The Epicurean route to Happiness," Ancient Routes to Happiness: 13th UNISA Colloquium (Pretoria, South-Africa) 2012 Epicurus' 'kinetic' and 'Katastematic' Pleasures: A Reappraisal, The Department Seminar of the Department of Philosophy: University of Maynooth (Dublin) 2006 The e contrario Answer to the Problem of Theodicy; Its Origin and Background, The 35th International Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies.
2004 Criteria of Art in Plato's Gorgias, The Colloquium of the Philosophy Department, Boston University. 2003 Between 'Technical' and 'Moral' Failure: Perceptual Changing in the Concept of Art Teaching in Ancient Greece, The Colloquium of the Education Department at Ben-Gurion University. 2001 Rhetoric; Art and Pseudo-Art in Plato's Gorgias, The 30th International Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. Selected Courses Taught Introduction to Ancient Philosophy Reading Texts in Ancient Philosophy Philosophical Issues in Aristotelian Political Thought Hellenistic Philosophy and its Schools Neoplatonic Thought Rhetoric and Rhetors in Greece and Rome History of Ancient Greece Main Issues in Early Roman History The Greek Polis and its Essence Greek Thought and Way of Life Athenian Democracy: Ideas and Processes List of Publications refereed Books 1. Who is Afraid of the Rhetor; An Analysis and Exegesis of Socrtaes-Gorgias' Conversation in Plato's Gorgias (Accepted to Gorgias Press) 2. The Dispute Concerning Rhetoric in Hellenistic Thought (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010).
Edited/ Trans. Books: 1. Epicurus, Kyriai Doxai: On Happiness and the Real Pleasures, Yosef Z. Liebersohn, trans., ed., and notes (Bin Yamina: Nahar Books, 2011). [Hebrew] Articles 1. "Crito's Character in Plato's Crito "(forthcoming in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 108) 2. "The place of Ψυχή in Plato's Crito " (forthcoming in Illinoi Classical Studies). 3. "What is the Proper Meaning of Kinetic and Katastematic Pleasures for Epicurus" (forthcoming in Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy). 4. "Alcidamas' On the Sophists: A Reappraisal," Eranos 97 (1999), pp. 108-124. 5. Y. Liebersohn, Y. Neuman and Z. Bekerman, "Oh Baby it's Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry: Public Apologetic Speech and Cultural Rhetorical Resources," Journal of Pragmatics 36 (2004), pp. 921-944. 6. "The Rhetoric of Gorgias in Gorgias, " Iyyun 53 (October 2004), pp. 363-394. [Hebrew] 7. "Seneca Philosophia Medicus," Collection Latomus, vol. 287: Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XII (2005), pp. 361-394. 8. "Art and Pseudo-Art in Plato's Gorgias, " Arethusa 38 (2005), pp. 303-329. 9. "Aristotle: Between Logic and Rhetoric: On the Subdivisions of Enthymemain Rhet. 1357a30-1357b25," Elenchos 26 (1) (2005), pp. 65-77. 10. "The speech of the Laws in Plato's Crito and the Flaw in Athenian Democracy," Historia 20 (October 2007), pp. 5-30. [Hebrew] 11. "The Role of Indifferentia in Stoic Ethics; (Stoic) official and the protreptikos logos in Seneca's Dialogi, "Eranos105 (2008-2009), pp. 101-117. 12. "The Problem of Rhetoric s Materia in Plato s Gorgias (449c9 d9)," Rhetorica 29 (1) (2011), pp. 1-22. 13. "On the Art of Aristotelian Rhetoric; Between Formal/Neutral Art and Formal/Neutral Elements," Philosophia (Athens) 41 (2011), pp. 147-168. "Rejecting Socrates' Maynooth Philosophical Papers 6 (2011), pp. 45-56. 14.
15. "Seneca and the Stoic Problem of Theodicy; "The e contrarioanswer," The Ancient World 43 (2) (2012), pp. 133-150. Book Introduction 1. Preface to Epicurus, Kyriai Doxai: On Happiness and the Real Pleasures, Yosef Z. Liebersohn, trans., ed., and notes (Bin Yamina: Nahar Books, 2011). [Hebrew]