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Dr. Jonathan Najenson

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The Open University of Israel 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107

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2016 – 2021
PhD Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (awarded with distinction)
2019 – 2020
Visiting Research Student, University of Pittsburgh 
2015 – 2019
MA Cognitive Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2013 – 2016
MA Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2010 – 2013
BA Political Science & Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2022 – 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Humanities and Art, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2021 – present
Teaching Fellow (Lecturer)
'Biological Thought' advanced MA program, The Open University of Israel
2021 – 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2022
Philosophy of Memory Essay Prize for ‘LTP Revisited: Reconsidering the explanatory power of synaptic efficacy', Centre for the Philosophy of Memory/Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 3000 EUR. Article to be published in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
2021
Bernard M. Bloomfield Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 
2017 – 2021
Presidential Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students in the Humanities, Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2016 – 2021
PhD fellowship, Interuniversity Ph.D. Program in History and Philosophy of Biology
2019 – 2020
Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities travel scholarship to fund one year visit in the Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

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Title: Memory: Process and Mechanism (awarded with distinction) 
Supervisors: Arnon Levy; Oron Shagrir 
Examiners: Kourken Michaelian (external); Sarah Robins (external)

Najenson, J. (2021). What have we learned about the engram? Synthese, 199, 9581–9601.

Najenson, J. & Fresco, N. (2021). The role of information in knowledge-how. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 4050.

Najenson J. (Forthcoming). Memory systems and the mnemic character of procedural memory. British Journal for Philosophy of Science.

2023 *Memory Traces and Causal Specificity. Causation in Memory. Center for Philosophy of Memory, Grenoble.

2023 *Spatial Simulation. Simulationism 2023. Center for Philosophy of Memory, Grenoble.

2022 Automaticity and control: Two faces, same coin?. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology and Society for Philosophy and Psychology joint meeting, Milan.

2022 Hierarchies and analogies in neurobiology. Israeli Philosophical Association annual meeting, Jerusalem.

2022 Hierarchies and analogies in neurobiology. Israeli Society for History & Philosophy of Science annual meeting, Tel Aviv.

2021 *Learning as a part of memory. Bochum-Grenoble Memory Colloquium (online)

2021 Learning as a part of memory. European Philosophy of Science Association (online)

2021 Learning as a part of memory. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Philosophical Association, Ra'anana.

2021 Learning as a part of memory. Society for Philosophy and Psychology (online)

2020 What have we learned about the engram?. Philosophy and Neuroscience at the Gulf III (online)

2019 Different memory systems are not different memory kinds. Issues in Philosophy of Memory 2, Center for Philosophy of Memory, Grenoble

2018 Where do memories go?. Modeling Reality –A joint workshop of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Pennsylvania, Jerusalem