Dr. Jonathan Najenson
Minerva Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at Ruhr University Bochum
Ruhr University of Bochum
Department of Philosophy II
Universitätsstraße 150
Room GA 04/45
44780 Bochum, Germany
Email: jonathan.najenson@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Biography
I am a Minerva Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ruhr University Bochum. My philosophical work focuses on the intersection of philosophy of science and philosophy of memory, specifically exploring scientific explanations of memory mechanisms and memory traces. I defended my PhD in Philosophy in 2021 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In my dissertation I explored whether memory can be characterized as a unitary capacity, challenging prevailing views in the philosophy of mind. Prior to my current position, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology where I was a member of the spatial perception and memory lab.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/jonathan-najenson/home
Publications
- Najenson, J. (2024). ‘Memory systems and the mnemic character of procedural memory’. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 75(2), 299-323. https://doi.org/10.1086/715448
- Najenson, J. (2023). ‘Encoding without perceiving: Can memories be implanted?’. Philosophical Psychology, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2295927
- Colaço, D. & Najenson, J. (2023). ‘Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?’. Philosophy of Science, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.126
- Najenson, J. (2023). ‘LTP revisited: Reconsidering the explanatory power of synaptic efficacy’. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-023-00694w
- Najenson, J. (2021). ‘What have we learned about the engram?’. Synthese, 199, 9581–9601. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03216-2
- Najenson, J. & Fresco, N. (2021). ‘The role of information in knowledge-how’. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 4050. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.634968
Links:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jonathannajens1
Google scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XjichdYAAAAJ
Researchgate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan-Najenson-2
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