Professor Oron Shagrir (born 1961) is an Israeli philosopher and cognitive scientist.
Biography and work
Oron Shagrir is Schulman Chair of Philosophy and professor of Philosophy and of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel.
Shagrir received a BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and then an MA degree in Philosophy of Science (supervised by Itamar Pitowsky) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then received a PhD degree in Philosophy and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego in the United States in 1995, having been supervised by Patricia Churchland.
Oron Shagrir has been the Vice Rector (2013–2017) and then Vice President (2017 onwards) for international affairs at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shagrir was also the head of the Cognitive Science department in the university.
Shagrir's areas of research interest include the conceptual foundations of (mainly computational) cognitive and brain sciences, the history and philosophy of computing and computability, and "supervenience". His publications include:
- Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond (with Jack Copeland and Carl Posy), MIT Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0262527484.
- A special journal issue on the history of modern computing (with Jack Copeland, Carl Posy, and Parker Bright, The Rutherford Journal), 2010.
Shagrir is on the editorial boards of The Rutherford Journal and the Springer book series Studies in Brain and Mind. In 2017, Shagrir contributed to The Turing Guide.
Family
He was born to Micha Shagrir and Aliza Shagrir. His mother was murdered during the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing while on Sukkot vacation and passing by the assaulted rue Copernic synagogue. He has a brother, Hagai.
He is married to Iris Shagrir.
Awards and honours
2024: Barwise Prize
References
- Copeland, Jack; Bowen, Jonathan; Sprevak, Mark; Wilson, Robin; et al. (2017). "Notes on Contributors". The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press. pp. 478–479. ISBN 978-0198747833.
- ^ Shagrir, Oron. "Oron Shagrir" (PDF). CV. Israel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- "Oron Shagrir – Vice Rector". The Jerusalem Brain Community (JBC). Israel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- "Oron Shagrir". MIT Press. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- Copeland, Jack; Sprevak, Mark; Shagrin, Oron (2017). "Chapter 41 – Is the whole universe a computer?". In Copeland, Jack; et al. (eds.). The Turing Guide. pp. 445–462.
- עליזה שגריר לוי זל
- "2024 APA Prizes: Spring Edition - American Philosophical Association".
External links
- Oron Shagrir home page
- Oron Shagrir publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Oron Shagrir on Academia.edu
- Oron Shagrir on ResearchGate