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Yuval Eylon , Senior Lecturer

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The Open University of Israel Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 4353701
Office:09-7781655 Email:yuvaley@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Ethics
  • Political philosophy
  • Philosophy of sport

I am a senior lecturer in philosophy.

My primary areas of research are virtue ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of sport, which I approach primarily using tools from the analytic philosophy tradition. My research emphasizes the relations between social practices and moral character. I've written about these topics both in scholarly journals and in popular media outlets.

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2003
Ph.D., Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1994
M.A., Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1991
B.A., Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2008
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel.
2006 - 2008
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel.
2013
American Philosophical Association, Public Philosophy Section: Outstanding Philosophic Op-Ed Award
2005 - 2006
The Kreitman Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2004 - 2005
The Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2021
Member, Ethics Committee
2018 - 2021
Chair, External Studies Academic Steering Committee
2018 - 2020
Member of the Senate
2016
Head of Philosophy Studies
2013 - 2015
Chair, Disciplinary Committee
2013
Member, Ethics Committee
2010 - 2012
Member, Research Authority Steering Committee

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Yuval Eylon. 2020. "Conventional Fouls - A Note on Strategic Fouls." Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 14, no. 2: 241-246.

Yuval Eylon. 2019. “The Virtue of Compromise”. Ethics, Politics & Society, 2.

Yuval Eylon and Amir Horowitz. 2018. "Games, Rules, and Practices." Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 12, no. 3: 241-254.

Yuval Eylon. 2016. "Natural Promises", Etyka 52/2016 pp 31-45

Yuval Eylon. 2009. "Virtue and Continence", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 12 (2): 137-151  

Yuval Eylon and David Heyd. 2009. "Flattery", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 685-704

Yuval Eylon. 2009. "Just threats", Journal of Moral Philosophy, 6 (1), pp 94-108.

Yuval Eylon and Alon Harel. 2006. "The Right for Judicial Review", The Virginia Law Review, pp 921-1022.

Yuval Eylon. 2006. “Understand All, Forgive Nothing: The Self-Indictment of HH”, Philosophy and Literature, pp 158-173.