Personal Biographical Information

I was born in Jerusalem to parents who immigrated to Israel from Morocco in 1962. The first years of absorption were challenging and clearly shaped my search for meaning in life that continues into my adulthood. At the centre of my studies and writings is the illumination of the human desire for metaphysics and the attempt to consolidate out of research in the history of western metaphysics new tools for its realization in the present time.

Academic Biographical Information

Prof. Roni Miron has been teaching at Bar-Ilan University since her third degree studies in the philosophy department of the university. Her doctoral thesis was written under the guidance of Prof. Avi Sagi. Title: Carl Jaspers - From Selfhood to Transcendence: The Development of Metaphysical Consciousness in the Philosophy of Carl Jaspers (1947-1910). The dissertation was approved in 2002. Later, Prof. Miron won a Minerva post-doctoral scholarship in 2003-2004 and stayed at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In 2007 she won an Alon scholarship and was accepted into the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies Program at the rank of senior lecturer. In 2016, she received the rank of full professor. Prof. Miron's research deals with post-Kantian philosophy - idealism, existentialism, phenomenology and hermeneutics as well as Jewish thought in modern times. She supervised PhD students in these fields and published many books and articles in international journals on these subjects.

Today the focus of her work is the thought of the members of the first generation of phenomenologists who worked alongside Husserl. The investigation of the possibilities for the metaphysical realization of the modern man is the unifying foundation of her phenomenological and hermeneutic studies.

During her work, Prof. Miron is active in many university committees, such as: Teaching Committee, Appointments Committee, Bater-Corona Committee, Bater Doctor Scholarship Winners Committee, President's Award Committee, Honorary Doctorate Committee, University Senate and more.

In November 2022, she founded the Israeli Phenomenology Forum together with her research students. The forum is intended to be a home for researchers who consider phenomenological thought and method tools to illuminate a wide range of human phenomena and a bridge for interdisciplinary investigations. This unique framework is the fruit of Prof. Miron's many years of research, dealing with various aspects of phenomenological thought, while examining its connections to the field of hermeneutics that developed alongside it. An integral part of the establishment of the forum are the research students of the program for generations who have written phenomenological and hermeneutic studies with an interdisciplinary approach. In the pioneering works written as part of the program and those added to be written in it, the vision of Edmund Husserl, the founding father of phenomenology, who saw it as a fundamental infrastructure in the study of human phenomena, is practically realized. Thus, in the spirit of the phenomenological tradition, which sees philosophical inquiry as a shared, alive and vibrant human activity, the forum is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary and interuniversity framework for research collaborations, including between the human sciences and the exact sciences, and a basis for collaborations with sister centers around the world. The forum was launched on 17.11.22 in a well-documented event with many participants

Research Areas:

Post-Kantian European philosophy
Phenomenology
Existentialism
German Idealism
Hermeneutics
History of psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Modern Jewish thought