Invited Researcher at Maison Suger Stay in France: from October 1st to December 1st, 2022
Ph.D. Candidate in philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Linguistics and Science Studies - Tel Aviv University, Yael Lavi will soon defend her thesis on the philosophy of voluntary death under the following title: "Beyond Morality and Clinic - End of Life Decisions."
Lavi holds a degree in architecture from Bezalel Academy of Art and Industry (2004), an E.MBA from the Hebrew University (2008), and an M.A. from the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University (2016).
Since 2017 she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, and a researcher member of the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life.
The project
Title: Beyond Morality and clinic-Contemplations of End of the Life Decisions
Keywords: End-of-life decisions; The limits of rationality; Vulnerability; Phenomenology of evaluation and Epistemological loneliness
Selected publications
(Forthcoming) "suicide in 20th-century European philosophy," in : Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide. Cholbi, M. and Stellino, P. (ed.), Oxford University Press. (invited chapter)
(2021) "A new humanism is in sight: a Concluding Critical Essay" in: Koll, N., (trans.), Lavi, Y. and Savariego, N. (eds.), Jean Amery's "Hand an sich legen : Diskurs über den Freitod" Hebrew translation, Hakibutz Hameuhad, Tel-Aviv, and Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University. (Hebrew)
(2021) "What's wrong with the statement of the American Association of Suicidology?" in: Szabat, M., and Piasecki, J., (eds.), Approaches to Death and Dying: Bioethical and Cultural Perspectives, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków. ISBN: 978-83-233-5055-2
(2019) "Between the Logic of Life and the Anti-logic of Death: Reflections on Suicidality in the Wake of Jean Améry." In: Ataria Y., Kravitz A., Pitcovski E. (eds.) Jean Améry - Beyond the Mind's Limits. Springer International Publishing - Palgrave Macmillan: 261-284; ISBN: 978-3-030-28094-9
Research topics
linguistics
philosophy
ageing
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