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| 1980-1984 | LL.B., Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1985 | Admitted to the Israel Bar |
| 1985-1988 | Studies in the Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1988-1991 | B.Sc., Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in the Amirim program). Thesis: Chaos and Determinism. |
| 1991-1997 | Ph.D., Philosophy of Science. Dissertation: Maxwell’s Demon. Advisor: Prof. Itamar Pitowsky. |
| 1984 - 1985 | Internship in a law office |
| 1985 - 1988 | Law practice |
| 1986 | Research Assistant, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1991 | Research Assistant, Department of Physics, The Hebrew University – project: Chaos |
| 1992 - 1997 | Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Department of Philosophy, The Hebrew University |
| 1997 | Postdoctoral Research, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University |
| 1998 | Postdoctoral Research, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University |
| 1998 - 1999 | Postdoctoral research, The Hebrew University |
| 1999 - 2000 | Postdoctoral research, The Hebrew University and Haifa University |
| 1999 - 2000 | Instructor, MA Course - Ignorance: Physical and Philosophical Perspectives, The Hebrew University and Haifa University |
| 2000 - 2002 | Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Undergraduate Courses: General Introduction to Philosophy: Reason, Knowledge and Values; MSc Course and Seminar on Philosophical Foundations of Physics; MSc Seminar on Scientific Method and Philosophy of Science; PhD Seminar on Philosophical Problems; PhD Research Seminar in Philosophy of the Natural Sciences. Tutoring and supervising MSc and PhD students, on various topics in Modern Philosophy, such as Process Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Freedom of Will, Laws of Nature, Van Fraassen’s Approach, as well as topics in the Philosophy of Physics. Departmental undergraduates admissions tutor, and member of the LSE Admissions Committee. |
| 2002 - 2003 | Researcher, The Edelstein Center for Philosophy and History of Science, The Hebrew University |
| 2002 - 2004 | Lecturer, MBA course on Business Ethics, School of Business Management, The College of Management, Israel |
| 2002 - 2005 | Lecturer, MBA course on Business Ethics and BA courses - Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences, Ethics, School of Management, Ono Academic College, Israel |
| 2002 - | Seminar Supervisor, Business Ethics, Seminar Supervisor, Open University of Israel |
| 2003 - | Senior Researcher, Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computation (CCMSC), Haifa University |
| 2004 - | Instructor, Philosophy of Science, course and advanced seminar, Open University of Israel |
| 2005 - | Developer, Bioethics - Introductory Unit, MA program in Biological Thought, Open University of Israel |
| 2006 - | Developer, New Introduction to Philosophy of Science, Open University of Israel |
| 1986 | Sassoon, D.M. and Shenker, O.R. A Guide to Documentary Credits, Tel-Aviv: Schocken (2nd ed.), updated by Meir Yifrach, 1996 (Hebrew). |
| 2007 | Bioethics: A Methodological Introduction. with Avshalom Adam, forthcoming. In Hebrew. |
| 1. | Shenker, O.R. (1984). Fraud in documentary credits, Tel-Aviv University Law Review 10, 555-587 (Hebrew). |
| 2. | Shenker, O.R. (1994). Fractal geometry is not the geometry of nature, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 25, 967-981. |
| 3. | Shenker, O.R. (1999). Is -kTr(rlnr) the entropy in quantum mechanics? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 50, 33-48. |
| 4. | Shenker, O.R. (1999). Maxwell's Demon and Baron Munchausen: Free will as a perpetuum mobile, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 30, 347-372. |
| 5. | Shenker, O.R. (2000). Logic and entropy. Available online at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000115/ |
| 6. | Shenker, O.R. (2001). Interventionism in statistical mechanics: Some philosophical remarks. Available online at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000151/ |
| 7. | Shenker, O.R. (2001). Science: Freedom and reason: Comments on Mara Beller's quantum dialogue, Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 50, 55-62. |
| 8. | Hemmo, M. and Shenker, O.R. (2001). Can we explain thermodynamics by quantum decoherence? Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 32, 555-568. |
| 9. | Shenker, O.R. and Hemmo, M. (2003). Quantum decoherence and the approach to equilibrium (Part I), Philosophy of Science, 70, 330-358. Available online at: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000881/ |
| 10. | Shenker, O.R. and Hemmo, M. (2003). Quantum decoherence and the approach to equilibrium (Part II), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 36, 626-648. Available online at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001940/ |
| 11. | Shenker, O.R. (2004). Maxwell’s Demon 2: Entropy, classical and quantum information, computing. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 35, 537-540. |
| 12. | Shenker, O.R. and Hemmo, M. (2006). Prediction and retrodiction in Boltzmann's approach to classical statistical mechanics. Available online at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003142/ |
| 13. | Shenker, O.R. and Hemmo, M. (2006). Maxwell's Demon. Available online at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003116/ |
| 14. | Shenker, O.R. and Hemmo, M. (2007). “ Von Neumann's Entropy Does Not Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy”, Philosophy of Science 73(2), 153-174. Available online at:http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002256/ |
| Shenker, O.R. and Adam, A. (27 September 2004). Investing in ethics, Globes, 27 (Hebrew). |
| Shenker, O.R. and Adam, A. (25 October 2004). The ‘trust me’ culture doesn’t work at Cisco, Haaretz, C2 (Hebrew). |
| Shenker, O.R. and Adam, A. (8 August 2005). The shamelessness of the business community in Israel, Haaretz (Hebrew) |
Conference Presentations and Lectures
(I)=invited lectures
| 1991 | 'The death and revival of Maxwell's Demon.' Interdisciplinary Seminar of the History and Philosophy of Science Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
| 1995 | 'The concept of information in statistical mechanics.' The Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 19-25 August, Florence, Italy |
| 1997 | 'Free will as a perpetuum mobile.' Interdisciplinary Seminar of the History and Philosophy of Science Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
| 1997 | 'What is entropy in quantum mechanics?'. The Sixth UK Conference on The Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations of Modern Physics, Hull, UK, 8-12 September. |
| 1997 | 'Maxwell's Demon.' Philosophy of Physics Seminar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, 7 October. |
| 1997 | (I) 'What is entropy in quantum mechanics?' Third UK Quantum Theory Mini-Meeting, Imperial College, London, 28 November. |
| 1998 | 'On quantum mechanical entropy.' Graduate Seminar, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University, 30 January. |
| 1998 | (I) 'Free will as a perpetuum mobile.' The Popper Seminar, Department of Philosophy,London School of Economics, 10 February. |
| 1998 | 'Remembering the future.' Departmental Seminar, Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University, 31 March. |
| 1998 | (I) 'Between Maxwell’s Demon and Baron Munchausen: Free will as a perpetuum mobile.'Departmental Seminar, Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University, 14 December. |
| 1999 | 'The science of ignorance.' The Second Annual Conference of the New Israeli Philosophical Society, 8 April. |
| 1999 | 'Approaches in statistical mechanics: Two domains of ignorance.' The Interdisciplinary Seminar of the History and Philosophy of Science Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 16 June. |
| 1999 | 'The entropy of computation: Re-examining some fundamentals' (poster). Complexity, Computation and the Physics of Information workshop, The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, 5-23 July. |
| 1999 | Annual Meeting of The British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Nottingham, 6-8 July. |
| 1999 | Joint Meeting of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Nottingham, 8-12 July. |
| 1999 | Chance in Physics: Foundations and Perspectives, Istituto Italiano Per Gli Studi Filosofici, Ischia, Italy, 29 November. |
| 2000 | (I) 'Comments on "Historical Contingency and the Quantum Revolution" by J. Cushing. The Bar-Hillel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Tel-Aviv University, 15 May. |
| 2000 | (I) 'Some philosophical remarks on interventionism.' International Conference on the Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, Jerusalem, 22-25 May. |
| 2000 | (I) 'Science: Freedom and reason: Comments on Mara Beller's Quantum Dialogue. The Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Edelstein Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December. |
| 2001 | (I) 'Logic and entropy.' Sigma Club, Centre for Philosophy of the Social and Natural Sciences, London School of Economics, May. |
| 2001 | (I) 'Logic and entropy.' Department of Philosophy, Oxford University, June. |
| 2001 | 'Logic and entropy.' Annual Meeting of The British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of York, July. |
| 2002 | (I)'Logic and entropy.' Joint seminar on the Philosophy of Physics, Bristol University, May. |
| 2002 | (I) 'Logic and entropy: Some presuppositions.'New Directions in the Philosophy of Physics, University of Maryland College Park, June. |
| 2002 | (I) 'Logic and entropy: Some presuppositions.'Department of Philosophy, Oxford University, June. |
| 2003 | Philosophy in Assos, Assos, Turkey, July. |
| 2004 | (I) 'Idlers and parasites.' Departmental Seminar,Ono Academic College, Israel, 11 March. |
| 2004 | Philosophy in Assos, Assos, Turkey, July. |
| 2005 | (I) 'Idlers and parasites.' Biological Thought Seminar, The Open University of Israel, March. |
| 2005 | (I) 'Physics and our knowledge of the past.'Philosophy in Assos, Assos, Turkey, July. |
| 2005 | (I)'Methodology of presenting problems in business ethics.' Issues in Teaching Business Ethics, The Dove Izraeli Center for Organizational Transparency and Ethics, Recanati School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University, 28 November. |
| 2006 | (I) 'Maxwell's Demon.' New Directions in the Foundations of Physics, University of Maryland College Park, 28-30 April 28-30. |
| 2006 | (I) 'Comments on Margaret Morrison's "Unification Revisited: The Role of Dynamical Principles."'The Bar Hillel Seminar, Tel-Aviv University, 5 June. |
| 1986 | Grant from The Institute for Business Research in Israel, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University. |
| 1992 | Award from The Association of Academic Women of Israel. |
| 1993-1994 | The Wolfson Award for Graduate Students in the Humanities, by means of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. |
| 1994-1997 | Rotenstreich Award, the Board for Planning and Funding Higher Education in Israel. |
| 1995, 1997 | Commendation for Excellence in Teaching, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
| 1997 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship: The Chevening Scholarship, by means of The British Council, to undertake a postdoctoral attachment at Cambridge University (renounced, in favor of a Rothschild Foundation award). |
| 1997-1998 | Rothschild Foundation Scholarship for postdoctoral research at Cambridge University and Oxford University, UK. |
| 1998-1999 | Lady Davies Fellowship for postdoctoral research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
| 1999-2000 | Edelstein Fellowship for postdoctoral research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
| 1999-2000 | Fellowship from the Board for Planning and Funding Higher Education in Israel, for postdoctoral research at Haifa University. |
| 2002-2003 | Lady Davies Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
| 2006-2007 | Research Grant, The Open University of Israel. |
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