Dr. Aviezer Tucker
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About Aviezer
Dr. Aviezer Tucker is a renowned expert in the philosophy of historiography with extensive experience as a research mentor and admissions consultant. Currently a Senior Researcher and Director at the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography, his work spans prestigious institutions like Harvard University and Max Planck Institute. Dr. Tucker is acclaimed for his contributions to understanding historical reasoning and has published extensively on historiography and political theory. He has transformed academic landscapes through innovative teaching and insightful analyses, providing valuable guidance to aspiring scholars worldwide.
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Professional Summary
The individual boasts a wealth of experience across prestigious global academic and research institutions. Currently, they serve as a Premium Research Mentor and Admissions Consultant with Crimson and direct the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography at the University of Ostrava, where they are a Senior Researcher. Since 2014, they have been a Research Associate at Harvard University's Davis Center, contributing to the Prague Study Abroad Program. Noteworthy past roles include Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Assistant Director at the University of Texas, Austin's Energy Institute, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Columbia University. With a longstanding history of teaching and research positions, including terms at the Australian National University, Queens’ University Belfast, and various European institutions, this professional has developed a profound expertise in philosophy, political science, and historiography.
Work History
Premium research mentor
Crimson
2023 – Present
- Working as a freelance premium research mentor and admissions consultant.
Director, Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography, Senior Researcher
Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic
2023 – Present
- Directing the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography and conducting senior research activities at the University of Ostrava.
Research Associate
Davis Center, Harvard University
2014 – Present
- Serving as a research associate at the Davis Center, while also instructing at Harvard’s Prague Study Abroad Program.
Instructor
Harvard’s Prague Study Abroad Program
2014 – Present
- Providing instruction as part of Harvard’s study abroad program located in Prague.
Visiting Fellow
Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
2019
- Held a visiting fellowship position at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.
Visiting Professor
the University of Cologne, Germany
2012
- Worked as a visiting professor at the University of Cologne.
Assistant Director
the Energy Institute, the University of Texas, Austin
2011 – 2014
- Assisted in directing the Energy Institute and taught at the LBJ Graduate School of Public Policy and in European Studies.
Lecturer in philosophy and political science
Charles University and CEVRO College in Prague
2008 – 2011
- Lectured in philosophy and political science across Charles University and CEVRO College, and was an IMESS (European Union) Fellow at the University of Tartu (Estonia).
Lecturer, Philosophy
Queens’ University, Belfast
2005 – 2008
- Lectured in Philosophy at Queens' University in Belfast.
Fellow
Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC
2004
- Held a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
Research Associate
Social and Political Theory and Philosophy program, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University
2003 – 2005
- Conducted research within the Social and Political Theory and Philosophy program at ANU's Research School of the Social Sciences.
Visiting Professor
Trinity College (Hartford CT)
2000 – 2001
- Served as a visiting professor at Trinity College during the academic year of 2000-2001.
Editor & Adjunct Professor
New York University (Law School & Political science)
1999 – 2003
- Worked as an editor and adjunct professor at NYU, engaging with both the law school and political science departments.
Logic Instructor
CTY Johns Hopkins University
1999
- Taught logic during the summer at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth.
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Political Science, Columbia University
1998 – 1999
- Completed a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Political Science at Columbia University.
Assistant Professor
political science and European studies, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
1994 – 1998
- Worked as an assistant professor focusing on political science and European studies at Palacky University.
Research Fellow
The Prague Central European University
1992 – 1994
- Was a research fellow at the Prague Central European University.
Education Summary
The individual has an extensive educational background, highlighted by a Postdoctoral experience at Columbia University in 1999, reflecting a significant level of advanced research and academic expertise. Previously, they earned a Ph.D. from The University of Maryland, College Park, completed in 1992, further establishing their depth of knowledge within their field. Additionally, they graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Tel Aviv University in 1988, highlighting their early academic excellence.
Education History
Postdoctorate
Columbia University
1999
PhD.
The University of Maryland, College Park
1992
BA
Tel Aviv University
1988
Magna cum laude
Publications Summary
Aviezer Tucker's extensive body of work reflects his profound engagement with the fields of historiography, political theory, and the philosophy of history. A prolific author, Tucker has published significant texts such as "Historiographic Reasoning" (2025, Cambridge University Press), and "The Legacies of Totalitarianism: A Theoretical Framework" (2015, Cambridge University Press), which was noteworthy enough to be partially translated into Polish. His intellectual contributions also include editing collaborative works, including the "Bloomsbury Handbook to the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History" (2025), showcasing his commitment to advancing historical and epistemological scholarship. Tucker's research has been translated into multiple languages, underscoring its international relevance and impact. His scholarly output, including numerous journal articles and book chapters, highlights his analytical approach and normative exploration within historiography, further cementing his role as an influential thinker in contemporary historical and philosophical discourse.
Published Works
Why I say ‘Totalitarian Regimes’: A Response to Totalitarianism Denial
Book ChapterBloomsbury Handbook to the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History
BookHistoriographic Reasoning
BookIntroduction
Book ChapterThe Originary Sciences
Book ChapterFrom Unreliable Sources: Bayesian Critique and Normative Modeling of HUMINT Inferences
Journal ArticleHistoriographic Populist Emotivism
Book ChapterOrigins
Journal ArticlePanarchy: Non-Territorial Polycentricity
Book ChapterCritical Reliability: A Bayesian Program for Intelligence analysis
Journal ArticleHistoricism Now: Historiographic Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology Out of Bounds
Journal ArticleForbidding Fruit: Apple TV+ Does Asimov: Asimov’s Foundation stories are a thought experiment in the social sciences
Magazine ArticleThe Inferences of Common Causes Reduced to Common Origins
Journal ArticleDemocracy against Liberalism
BookHistorical Evitability: The Return of the Philosophy of History
Book ChapterOrigins and Genealogies
Book ChapterThe Philosophy of Historiography
Book ChapterUniversal Basic Income: Does It Work
BlogWhy Legacies Matter: Reply to Readings of Legacies
Journal ArticleThe Generation of Probable Facts from Testimonies in Jurisprudence and Historiography
Journal ArticleThe Origins of Historiographic Causation
Book ChapterWertung und historische Wahrheit in wissenschaftlicher Geschichtsschreibung
Book ChapterJustice and the Distribution of Risks from Unconventional Energy Technologies
Journal ArticleMemory: Irreducible, Basic, and Primary Source of Knowledge
Journal ArticleThe Etiology of Faked News
Journal ArticleThe New-Old Fatalism
Journal ArticleHistoriographic Ancients and Moderns: The Difference between Thucydides and Ranke
Book ChapterHistoriographic Counterfactuals and the Philosophy of Historiography: An Introduction
Journal ArticleIntroduction
Book ChapterPanarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States
BookThe Best States: Panarchy as Anti-Utopia
Book ChapterThe Generation of Knowledge from Multiple Testimonies
Journal ArticleWhy We Need Totalitarianism
Journal ArticleDying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers
BookSpanish translation in Carlos Forcadell, Ignacio Peiro, Mercedes Yusta
Book ChapterThe Legacies of Totalitarianism: A Theoretical Framework
BookThe New Energy Force Field
Journal ArticleBiology and Natural History: What makes the difference?
Book ChapterEpistemology as a Social Science: Applying the Neuman-Rubin Method to Explain Expert Beliefs
Book ChapterHavel: A Life
BookHistorical Truth
Book ChapterOn the ‘Strudel and Apples’ Theory of Historiography: Reply to Chris Lorenz
Journal ArticlePolitical Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution
BookThe Far Reaches: Phenomenology, ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe
BookThe New Power Map: World Politics after the Boom in Unconventional Energy
News ArticleA Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
BookMy Crazy Century
BookPlato for Everyone
BookShale Gas in Europe: A Multidisciplinary Analysis with a Focus on European Specificities
BookThinking the Twentieth Century
BookWorldly philosopher: the odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
BookAfter the US Shale Gas Revolution
BookBully-U: Higher Education and Central Planning
Journal ArticleModernism and Totalitarianism: Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present
BookNullus in verba: Recent Studies in the Epistemology of Testimony
OtherProving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
BookScarce Justice: The Accuracy, Scope and Depth of Justice
Journal ArticleSciences of Tokens and Types: The Difference between History and the Social Sciences
Book ChapterThe Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
BookPrague’s Ironic Modernist
OtherHistorical Science, Over- and Under- determined: A Study of Darwin’s Inference of Origins
Journal ArticleWhere do we go from Here: A Jubilee Report on History and Theory
Journal ArticleJamming the Critical Barrels: The Legacies of Totalitarian Thinking
Journal ArticleRestoration and Convergence: Russia and China since 1989
Book ChapterRestoration and Convergence: Russia and China since 1989
Book ChapterCO JE ŽIDOVSKÁ FILOSOFIE? Saul Kripke jako následovník Jehudy Haleviho
Magazine ArticleCzech History Wars
Magazine ArticleCzech History Wars
Magazine ArticleA Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography
BookCausation
Book ChapterCausation
Book ChapterIntroduction
Book ChapterIntroduction
Book ChapterOrigins: The Inference of Common Cause
Book ChapterOrigins: The Inference of Common Cause
Book ChapterPromethean Elites Meet Precautionary Publics: The Case of GM Foods
Journal ArticlePromethean Elites Meet Precautionary Publics: The Case of GM Foods
Journal ArticleThe Philosophy of Natural History and Historiography
OtherPre-emptive Democracy: Oligarchic Tendencies in Deliberative Democracy
Journal ArticleBack from the Drift: Introduction to Special Issue on Philosophy of History
Journal ArticleDeliberative Innovation to Different Effect: Consensus Conferences in Denmark, France, and the United States
Journal ArticleHistoriographic Revision and Revisionism: The Evidential Difference
Book Chapter“Charter 77,” “Czechoslovakia,” “Dienstbier Jiri,” “Havel Vaclav,” “Human Rights,” and “Le Carre, John,” in Encyclopedia of the Cold War
OtherHistorical Knowledge, Historical Error: Contemporary Guide to Practice
BookThe Inference of Common Cause Naturalized
Book ChapterThe Political Theory of French Science Studies in Context
Journal ArticleTo the Castle and Back
BookContingency, Necessity, Teleology and progress
Journal ArticleDown but Not Under: Australian Higher Education
Magazine ArticleOut of the Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls Research
BookParanoids May be Persecuted: Post-totalitarian retroactive justice, & Rough Justice: Rectification in post-Authoritarian and post-Totalitarian Regimes
Book ChapterTemporal Provincialism: Anachronism, Retrospection and Evidence
Journal Article“Consciousness,” "Objectivity," in Maryanne Cline Horowitz ed., The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Other“Czech Republic,” “Justice,” “Libertarianism,” and “Mises Ludwig von.” in Rodney Carlisle ed., Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right
OtherMiracles, Historical Testimonies, and Evidence
Journal ArticleRestoration and Revolution: Understanding Post-Totalitarianism
Journal ArticleThe Logics of History
BookHolistic Explanations of Events
Journal ArticleLes Tcheques et leur communisme: Mémoire et identités politiques
BookOur Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography
BookThe New Politics of Property Rights
Journal ArticleHistory: Myth or Reality
BookResistance and Reform: East European Higher Education
Magazine ArticleThe Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe: Citizen Intellectuals and Philosophers Kings
BookThe Epistemic Significance of Consensus
Journal ArticleThe Origins of Postcommunist Elites: From Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia
BookKripke and Fixing the Reference of `God'
Journal ArticleThe Essence of Dissidence
Journal ArticleThe Future of the Philosophy of Historiography
Journal ArticleFrom Republican Virtue to Technocratic Politics: Three episodes of Czech non-political politics
Journal ArticleIntroduction to Higher Education special issue & Reproducing Incompetence: The Constitution of Czech Higher Education
Journal ArticleI paranoici mohou byt pronasledovani (o spravedlnosti v posttotalitnich spolecnostech)
Journal ArticleThe Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence: From Patocka to Havel
BookBeyond the Territorial Fallacy: The Best States
Journal ArticleParanoids may be Persecuted: Post-totalitarian Retroactive Justice
Journal ArticleSins of Our Fathers: A short History of Religious Child Sacrifice
Journal ArticleThe Genealogy of Incommensurability in Psychoanalysis
Conference PaperThe Logic of the History of Ideas
BookUnique events: The Underdetermination of Explanation
Journal ArticlePhenomenology, Explication and Prescription in the Philosophical meta-disciplines
Journal ArticlePolitics of Conviction: The Rise and Fall of Czech Intellectual Politicians
Book ChapterScientific Historiography Revisited: An essay in the metaphysics and epistemology of history
Journal ArticleThe Collection and Dissemination of Social Science Information In the Czech Republic
Conference PaperLe Sacrifice et l'authenticité. L'éthique de la dissidence tchèque
Journal ArticleThe Czech Transition: Politics before Economics
Journal ArticleCharles L. Glenn, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe
Review PaperCzech translation: Scriptum no. 21
OtherJ.S. Mill's Philosophy of the history of science
Journal ArticleO detske obeti
OtherScience Fiction as a Bridge to Philosophy: Stephen R. L. Clark, How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy
Review PaperShipwrecked: Patocka's Philosophy of Czech History
Journal Article150 short reviews of works in the philosophy of history as part of a section on Theory and Practice
Book ChapterCorruption and Greed: Western Academic Aid to Eastern Europe
Journal ArticlePrivatization, Restitution, Property Rights, and Justice
Journal ArticleThe Illness of Psychoanalysis, Review essay of: D. P. Spence, The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis
Review PaperAquinas' Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Legitimization of Social Stratification
Journal ArticleGordon H. Skilling & Paul Wilson eds., Civic Freedom in Central Europe: Voices from Czechoslovakia
Review PaperIdentity Crisis, review of: Martin Matuštik, Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel
Review PaperIn Search of Home
Journal ArticleThe new Jews
Journal ArticleA Theory of Historiography as a Pre-Science
Journal ArticleNormativni filosofie dejin
Journal ArticlePlato and Vico: A Platonic Reinterpretation of Vico
Journal ArticleWaiting for Meciar, review of: Tim D. Whipple ed., After the Velvet Revolution: Vaclav Havel and the leaders of Czechoslovakia speak out
Review PaperJan Patočka, Essais Hérétiques sur la philosophie de l'histoire
Review PaperPatocka Vs. Heidegger: The Humanistic Difference
Journal ArticleSacrifice: From Isaac to Patocka
Journal ArticleThe Long Havel Summer, Review of: Vaclav Havel, Summer Meditations
Review PaperSome Methodological Notes On The Explanations To The Invention Of Printing
Journal ArticleVaclav Havel's Heideggerianism
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