Oron Shagrir
Oron Shagrir is an Israeli philosopher and cognitive scientist.
Biography and work
Oron Shagrir is the Schulman Chair of Philosophy and a professor of philosophy and of cognitive and brain sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Shagrir received a BSc degree in mathematics and computer science and then an MA degree in Philosophy of
Science 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 and then Vice President 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 cognitive and brain sciences, the history and philosophy of computing and computability, and "supervenience". His publications include:Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond, MIT Press, 2013..
- A special journal issue on the history of modern computing, 2010.
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.