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David Enoch

Prof. David Enoch

Language, Philosophy and Cognition Institute
Department of Philosophy
Department of Law
David.Enoch@mail.huji.ac.il
Faculty main building
Personal Website

Research Fields

  • Moral Philosophy
  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Law

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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

 

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Prof. Hilla Jacobson

Language, Philosophy and Cognition Institute
Department of Philosophy
Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
hilla.jacobson@mail.huji.ac.il
Faculty main building

Research Fields

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Cognitive
  • Science and Cognitive-Neuroscience Consciousness
  • Perception and Affect

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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

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Sharon Krishek

Dr. Sharon Krishek

Philosophy Department
Language, Philosophy and Cognition Institute
sharon.krishek@mail.huji.ac.il
Faculry main Building, room no. 5508

 

Research Fields

  • The philosophy of Kierkegaard
  • Philosophy of love
  • Philosophy and literature
  • Existentialism
  • Philosophy of religion

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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

 

 

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Oron Shagrir

Prof. Oron Shagrir

Philosophy Department
Language, Philosophy and Cognition Institute
Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
+97226585654
orons@savion.huji.ac.il
Building room no.5516
Personal Website

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.

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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

 

 

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