I am the Sonia T. Marschak professor at the Humanities and Arts department at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. At 2020 I was elected to turn a large teaching operation into an excellent research department with the aim of forging productive links between the humanities and the sciences. This is a formidable challenge that I pursued in recent years with much enthusiasm. Some of our achievements are visible in our site.

My own research is focused on early modern philosophy, philosophy and history of biology, mind-body relations, Wittgenstein’s philosophy, and multicultural theory (especially in the Israeli context).

I began studying philosophy and history of science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, then went to Columbia University for graduate school. My PhD thesis, A Leibnizian Approach to Possibility, was accepted in 1998. I spent a year at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, conducting postdoctoral research on Leibniz and Spinoza with Pierre-François Moreau.

I taught at Tel-Hai Academic College, Lehigh University, Fordham University, and been a visiting scholar at Princeton and the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, as well as a member at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton (2017) and Paris (2019).

My recent books are Living Mirrors: Infinity, Unity, and Life in Leibniz’s Philosophy (OUP, 2019) and The Psychophysical Lab: Yoga Practice and the Mind-Body Problem (Mudita Books, 2019, with Eyal Shifroni); Yoga in Nature, Dalian University of Technology Press, 2023, in Chinese and English.

Click here to see (and download) my books and articles.

Contact Information

Email (the best way to contact me): ohadnachtomy@technion.ac.il

Surface: Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion, 3200002, Haifa, Israel.

* I would like to thank Liat Lavi and Meital Gotfrid for their great work on this site.

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