About

Prof. Breuer has been part of the Hebrew University research community forover 40 years, he is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. He deals mainly with Talmudic Hebrew and Aramaic.

Selected Publications

The Hebrew in the Babylonian Talmud according to the Manuscripts of Tractate Pesahim, Jerusalem 2002

From Aramaic into Hebrew: the Method of Translation in the Book Hilkhot Re’u, Jerusalem 2020

“Perfect and Participle in Description of Ritual in the Mishnah”, Tarbiz LVI (1987), pp. 299-326

“Dissonance between Masoretic Accentuation and Vocalization in Verse Division of the Biblical Text”, M. Bar-Asher (ed.) Rabbi Mordechai Breuer Festschrift, Jerusalem 1992, pp. 191-242

“The Babylonian Aramaic in Tractate Karetot: According to MS Oxford”, Aramaic Studies 5.1 (2007), pp. 1–45

Teaching

Mishnaic Hebrew

Babylonian Aramaic

The Massora

The Language of S.Y. Agnon

Linguistic Studies in the Interpretation of the Bible

About

Prof. David Enoch has served on the faculty of Hebrew University - on a joint appointment in philosophy and law - since graduatating from NYU in 2003.

Prof. Enoch works primarily about moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Selected Publications

For legal reserach: The Fattal Prize (2021), The Zeltner Prize (Junior 2005, Senior 2018), Cheshin Prize (Junior 2009).

The Michael Bruno Memorial Award, 2012

Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism (Oxford University Press, 2011).

“False Consciousness for Liberals, Part I: Consent, Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences”, The Philosophical Review 129 (2020), 159-210.

“Statistical resentment, or: what’s wrong with acting, blaming, and believing on the basis of statistics alone” (co-authored with Levi Spectre), forthcoming in Synthese, available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03042-6

“Is General Jurisprudence Interesting?” In Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence (edited by David Plunkett, Scott Shapiro, and Kevin Toh) (Oxford University Press, 2019).

"Autonomy as Sovereignty, Autonomy as Non-Alienation, and Politics", forthcoming in             The Journal of Political Philosophy.

Selected Awards

For legal reserach: The Fattal Prize (2021), The Zeltner Prize (Junior 2005, Senior 2018), Cheshin Prize (Junior 2009).

The Michael Bruno Memorial Award, 2012

About

Prof. Raz Chen-Morris is an historian of early modern science. He studied at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Chen-Morris is currently the academic director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows.

Selected Publications

Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, Baroque Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013

Raz Chen-Morris, Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.

Ofer Gal  and Raz Chen-Morris, “Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt.”  Journal of the History of Ideas, 71:2, 2010, pp. 191-218

Raz Chen-Morris, "Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe". Nuncius 35 (2020) 387–412.

Raz Chen-Morris, “The Fall of Icarus and Kepler’s Observations- Forbidden Knowledge, Curiosity and the Birth of New Science in the Seventeeth Century”. History 31-32 (2014) 105-138.

רז חן-מוריס, "נפילתו של איקרוס ותצפיותיו של קפלר -ידע אסור, סקרנות ולידתו של המדע החדש במאה השבע עשרה", היסטוריה 31-32 (תשע"ד), עמ' 105-138

Selected Awards

2006-2009-The Australian Research Council–supported project - The Imperfection of the Universe (DP0664046)

The Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas for 2010

2010-2011-Excellent lecturer award for distinguished teaching achievements, Bar Ilan University

2020-2023-ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 312/20): Geometry and the Making of Geometrical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to the history of early modern Europe

An intellectual history of science (part A): from Copernicus to Enlightenment

An intellectual history of science (part  B): from Newton to Freud

Continuity and Change in Scientific Thought from the Late Middle Ages to the 17th Century

HISTORIOGRAPHIC TEXTS - GREAT HISTORIC BOOKS

Places of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe

Astrology and Astronomy in the Renaissance

Science and Religion in the 17th Century

Humanism, Art and Science in the Renaissance

Sovereignty and Knowledge in the Age of Baroque

Master's degree courses

The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century - A Global Perspective

The Sense of Sight from the Age of Cathedrals to the Baroque

About

Hilla Jacobson’s research focuses on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science and the philosophy of practical reasoning. Much of her work stands at the point where philosophical concerns overlap with and feed into empirical research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Jacobson is interested especially in the manner in which we consciously perceive and experience the world (including our own bodies); in the evaluative, valenced (pleasant/unpleasant), motivational (action-guiding) aspects of our perceptual experiences; and in the nature of – as well as the interplay between – mental elements that purport to represent how the world actually is (e.g., beliefs or judgments) and those that concern how it should be from the subject's perspective (e.g., desires and preferences).

Selected Publications

Jacobson, H. (2019). “Not only a messenger: towards an attitudinal-representational theory of pain”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 99 (2), 382-408.

Jacobson, H. forthcoming. The Role of Valence in Perception: An ARTistic Treatment, Philosophical Review

Jacobson H, Putnam H. 2016. “Against Perceptual Conceptualism”. International Journal of Philosophical Studies

About

Sharon Krishek joined the philosophy department in 2013. She is interested in the nature of love and its relation to the correct way of living, and explores this and other related questions in the context of the philosophy of Kierkegaard, the philosophy of love, and works of literature.

Selected Publications

1. Lovers in Essence: A Kierkegaardian Defense of Romantic Love, Oxford University Press, 2022.

2. Kierkegaard on Faith and Love, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

3. “The Long Journey to Oneself: The Existential Import of The Sickness unto Death,” in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death: A Critical Guide, eds. Jeffrey Hanson and Sharon Krishek, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

4.”Kierkegaard’s Notion of a Divine Name and the Feasibility of Universal Love,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2019.

5. “The enactment of love by faith: On Kierkegaard’s distinction between love and its works,” Faith and Philosophy, 2010.

Teaching

- Introduction to existentialism

- Love’s various forms

- A close reading of Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety

- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

- Romantic love

- Philosophy and literature

- Sin, love, and the good life

- The importance of love

- Kierkegaardian love

- Sin, faith, love: A Reading in The Sickness unto Death

About

Yael Reshef is an expert on Modern Hebrew, and in particular, on its emergence processes during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Selected Publications

Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020

Linguistic Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series], Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019 (ed., with E. Doron, M. Rapaport Hovav, M. Taube)

Hebrew in the Mandate Period. Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2015 [in Hebrew]

The Early Hebrew Folksong: A Chapter in the History of Modern Hebrew. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2004 [in Hebrew]

Selected Awards

Recipient of the Ze’ev Ben-Hayyim Prize for Excellence in the Study of Hebrew Language and Literature, awarded by The Academy of the Hebrew Language

Teaching

History of the Hebrew Language: From Early Medieval Period until the Revival of Hebrew Speech

Modern Hebrew

Sociolinguistics

Speech and Speech Representation

Selected Topics in Pragmatics

Topics in the History of Modern Hebrew

Structural Features of contemporary Hebrew

Selected Topics in Modern Hebrew Gramma

Language and Interaction

Modern Hebrew as a Language of Culture

Modern Hebrew: The First Decades

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

About

Noam’s research is concerned with learning, reading, and their intersection, mostly from the prism of individual-differences. His most recent work deals primarily with how individuals differ from one another in their literacy skills given their learning capacities and the properties of their native language’s writing system. This work involves the development of computational tools to mathematically quantify the structure of writing systems, and the use of behavioral, eye-tracking, and neurobiological methods to unveil the computations available to learners as they assimilate this structure.

Selected Publications

Siegelman, N., Rueckl, J. G., Steacy, L. M., Frost, S. J., van den Bunt, M., Zevin, J. D., Seidenberg, M. S., Pugh, K. R., Compton, D. L., & Morris, R. D. (2020). Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills. Journal of Memory and Language.

Siegelman, N., Schroder, S., Acarturk, C., Alexeeva, S, Amenta, S., An, H., Bertram, R., Bondarini, R., Brysbaert, M., Chernova, D., Da Fonesca, S. M., Dirix, N., Duyck, W., Fella, A., Frost, R., Gattei, C., Kalaitzi, A., Kwon, N., Marelli, M., … Kuperman, V. (2022). Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO). Behavior Research Methods.

Siegelman, N., van den Bunt, M., Lo, J. C. M., Rueckl, J. G., & Pugh, K. R. (2021). Theory-driven classification of individuals with and without reading difficulties using Bayesian latent-mixture models. NeuroImage.  

Siegelman, N., Bogaerts, L., Christiansen, M.H., & Frost, R. (2017). Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Siegelman, N., & Frost, R. (2015). Statistical learning as an individual ability: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence. Journal of Memory and Language.

Selected Awards

2022-present: Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellowship

2020-2021: Israel Science Foundation (ISF) postdoctoral fellowship

2018-2019: Rothschild Yad-Hanadiv postdoctoral fellowship

2019: Alex Berger award for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation (Hebrew University)

Teaching

Courses taught in the last 5 years (B.A., M.A.)

2022-present: Statistics for Graduate Students: From t-tests to Mixed-Effect Models

2022-present: Field Work: Individual Differences in Learning and High-Level Cognitive Abilities

2022-present: Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences

2018: A Hands-on Tutorial: Mixed-effect Models in R

2015-2018: Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences

About

Dr. Alena Witzlack-Makarevich's research revolves around capturing, describing, and explaining linguistic diversity. In her work, Witzlack-Makarevich combines large-scale typological studies involving hundreds of languages with in-depth studies of individual languages. Alena is also actively involved in language documentation and description.

Selected Publications

Bickel, Balthasar, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Kamal K. Choudhary, Matthias Schlesewsky & Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. 2015. “The neurophysiology of language processing shapes the evolution of grammar: evidence from case marking”, PLOS ONE 10(8): e0132819. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132819.

Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nivja H. de Jong & Balthasar Bickel. 2018. “Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2018, 201800708.

Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Hirosi Nakagawa. 2019. Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as ‘Khoisan’. In Ekkehard Wolff (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, 382–416. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Ilja A. Seržant. “Differential argument marking: Patterns of variation. In Seržant, Ilja A. & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds), Diachrony of differential argument marking”, 1–40. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena, Taras Zakharko, Lennart Bierkandt, Fernando Zúñiga & Balthasar Bickel. “Decomposing hierarchical alignment: co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement”, Linguistics 54(3), 531–561.

Teaching

Corpus linguistics

Quantitative methods in linguistics

Pidgins and creoles

Lexical typology

Practical lexicography

ǃUi languages of the Tuu family

Introduction to the structure of Khoekhoe

Register Variation

Comparative linguistics and phylogenetic methods

Linguistic typology

Field linguistics