Ohad Nachtomy

Ohad Nachtomy is head of the Humanities and Arts department at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and Sonia T. Marschak Academic Chair. His research focuses on early modern philosophy, philosophy and history of biology, mind-body relations, Wittgenstein’s philosophy, and multicultural theory (especially in the Israeli context).

After studying philosophy and history of science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he pursued doctoral studies at Columbia University and was awarded his PhD in 1998 for his dissertation “A Leibnizian Approach to Possibility.” He has taught and researched at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Tel-Hai Academic College, Lehigh University, Fordham University, Princeton, and the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, and was a member at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton (2017) and Paris (2019).

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