Dov Schwartz is the Natali and Isidor Friedman Chair on Teaching the Writings of Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, Bar Ilan University. He is the author of Religion or Halakhah? The Philosophy of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik (2007), Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2005), Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2005), and many others.