PhD Students

One of the Cohn Institute’s main goals is to create a prolific environment for research students to grow and learn. Our PhD Students participate in research seminars, professional conferences and international workshops. Below is a list of students who chose to make their information public and their research interests. 

 

PhD Students:

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Yousef Awabdy

Research Topic: The Hanbali Islamic Approach to Natural Philosophy after Al Ghazali (d.1111)

Advisor: Ahmad Igbaria

Email: yousefawabdy@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Yael Barash

Research Topic: Hildegard of Bingen's Prophetic Knowledge

Advisor: Yosef Schwartz

Email: yaelbar1@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Mati Breski

Research Topic: The Co-Evolution of Emotion and Language in The Construction of Modern Humans Emotions

Advisors: Eva Jablonka, Daniel Dor

Email: matibreski@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Dikla Bytner

Research Topic: The history and origin of Leibniz's inventions, or: How to invent a new science?

Advisor: Rivka Feldhay

Email: dikla@post.tau.ac.il

 

Samuel Crainic

Research Topic: The concept of present in the metaphysics of time, resettling Presentism and the Special Theory of Relativity

Advisor: Ori Belkind

Email: samuelc@post.tau.ac.il

 

Yael Dagan

Research Topic: The Architect's Space Perception and the User's Space Perception- Physical Systems of Movement in Time and Space

Advisors: Ori belkind, Ayelet Landau

Email: yaeldagan@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Iddo Ginat

Research Topic: The construction of the Zionist ethos over the past century through the representations of the Palestinian/”Eretz Israeli” landscape and the Zionist building project at International Exhibitions and World Fairs

Advisor: Rivka Feldhay

Email: iginat@post.harvard.edu

 

Zvi Hasnes Beninson

Research Topic: Scientific Controversies as a Window to Modeling Processes in the Life Sciences: The Case of Sociobiology

Advisor: Ehud Lamm

Email: zvih1@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Chen Herman

Research Topic: A rational search for a mystical reality: Leibniz's mystic "Christian Mathematics", and its historical roots

Advisor: Yosef Schwartz

Email: chenhe2@gmail.com

 

Boaz Ishai

Research Topic: Animals and Their Relation to Man in the view of Ikhwan Al-Safa

Advisors: Yosef Schwartz, Ahmad Igbaria

Email: boazishai@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Kati Kish Bar On

Research Topic: Living with Contradiction: Testing Models of Framework Transitions through Brouwer’s Intuitionism

Advisors: Menachem Fisch, Leo Corry

Email: katikish@gmail.com

 

Adam Krashniak

Research Topic: The Explanatory Role of Natural Selection in Evolutionary Theory

Advisor: Ehud Lamm

Email: adamkrashniak@gmail.com

 

Rosie Lev Halutz

Research Topic: Victorian London’s Mathematical Culture - Non-Euclidean Geometry as a Case Study

Advisor: Leo Corry

Email: rozitlev@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Rony Margalit

Research Topic: The Mythic Quartet: Psychoanalytic Approach to the Quaternity

Advisor: Yosef Schwartz

Email: ronymargalit@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Adam Markscheid

Research Topic: Schelling and the Kabbalah: The Impact of the Lurianic Thought on the Weltalter-Philosophy

Advisor: Yosef Schwartz

Email: adammarkscheid@gmail.com

 

Yair Oppenheim

Research Topic: The Influence of Information Technologies on the Personal Privacy

Advisors: Asa Kasher, Isaac Ben Israel

Email: yairo@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Micha Peled

Research Topic: Conjecturing Beliefs: Abductive Inference in Monetary Policymaking

Advisors: Moshe Zuckermann, Itzhak Gilboa

Email: michapel@tauex.tau.ac.il

 

Naama Pinnes Roichman

Research Topic: Residues of a Dream World: World Exhibitions and Their Permanent Mark on the Public Sphere

Advisor: Moshe Zuckermann

Email: naamapi1@post.tau.ac.il

 

Maya Roman

Research Topic: The Normativity of Consciousness

Advisor: Menachem Fisch

Email: mayaroman@mail.tau.ac.il

 

 Aviram Rosochotsky

Research Topic: Relationalism in Shape Dynamics

Advisor: Ori Belkind

Email: aviram.rosochotsky@gmail.com

 

Meir Shilo

Research Topic: Ernst Cassirer and Sigmund Freud on Myth, Language and Truth

Advisors: Yosef Schwartz, Moshe Zuckermann

Email: meirsjil@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Dor Shilton

Research Topic: The Cultural Evolution of Music: From Participation to Performance

Advisors: Eva Jablonka, Daniel Dor, Ian Cross

Email: dorshilt@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Noga Shlomi

Research Topic: The Evolution of Scientific Visual Language in Early Modern Science: A Machine- Learning Based Analysis

Advisors: Matteo Valleriani, Yosef Schwartz

Email: nogashlomi@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Ori Slonim

Research Topic: Civilian Power Reactor Development in the US during the years 1947-1970: An Examination of Science, Technology, State and the Private Sector's Interrelations

Advisor: Shaul Katzir

Email: orislonim@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Nir Yehudai

Research Topic: Psychological Evil: Western Psychiatry and the Idea of Evil From the American Civil War to World War II (1786-1945)

Advisor: Jose Bruner

Email: yehudain@post.tau.ac.il