Research Fields

• Philosophy of computing;
• Philosophy of cognitive and brain sciences;
• Philosophy of mind;
• Philosophy of science;
• Logic and computability;
• History of computing,
• AI and computational cognitive science.

About

Oron Shagrir is the Schulman Chair in Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his  BSc degree in mathematics and computer science and  MA degree in philosophy of science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned his PhD in philosophy and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the nature of computation and the role of computational approaches in cognitive neuroscience.

Selected Publications

• Oron Shagrir. The Nature of Physical Computation. Oxford University Press (forthcoming). 
• Philippos Papayannopoulos, Nir Fresco and Oron Shagrir. “On Two Different Kinds of Computational Indeterminacy.” The Monist (forthcoming). 
• Lotem Elber-Dorozko and Oron Shagrir. “Integrating Computation into the Mechanistic Hierarchy in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences.” Synthese (forthcoming). First online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02230-9
• Oron Shagrir. “In Defense of the Semantic View of Computation.” Synthese, 197 (2020): 4083–4108.
• Jack Copeland and Oron Shagrir. “The Church–Turing Thesis—Logical Limit or Breachable Barrier?” Communications of the ACM, 62 (2019): 66–74.

Teaching

• Philosophy, computation, cognition
• Mental causation
• The philosophical foundation of cognitive science