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SHIRI COHEN KAMINITZ

Curriculum Vita – updated – 9/10/2024

 

Personal Information:

 

Born: Israel, May 1977

Family status: married+ 2 (born: 2014,2016).

Address: Harishonim 13 Ramat-Gan

E-Mail: shiri.cohen2@mail.huji.ac.il

 

 

Education

 

1998-2002             Bachelors of Arts: Integrative Program: Philosophy, Economics, Political Science (PEP), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

2002-2005             Masters of Arts: History and Philosophy of Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervised by Professor Yemima Ben-Menahem and Professor Nathan Sussman.

 

 

2005- 2011            Doctorate in Philosophy: Science, Technology and Society (STS), Bar-Ilan University. Supervisors: Professor Nathan Sussman and Professor Raz Chen Morris #2

 

March 2008         Visiting Scholar at UCL. Host: Professor Jonathan Wolff.

 

 

2011- 2012           Post-Doctorate Research Fellow at the Center for the History of

Political Economy at Duke University, North Carolina. Host: Professor Bruce Caldwell. #1

         

 

2013-2014             Post-Doctorate Fellowship: Ben-Gurion University, Economics department. Host: Professor Arie Arnon.

 

Sep-Dec 2019       Sabbatical: Washington University, Seattle, USA. Host: Professor Stephen Gardiner.

                               

                             

Appointments at the Hebrew University:

 

2002-2005             Assistant lecturer. PPE program.

2011-2013             External lecturer, PPE program.

Jul 2014-              Tenure track position (a lecturer), PPE program and Political Science department. The faculty of social sciences.

 

 

Additional Functions/Tasks at the Hebrew University

 

2015-2016             Political Science seminar coordinator.

2017-2018             Member of the teaching committee (Political Science Department).

2017-2019             Teaching assistants coordinator (Political Science department).

2020-2023             Gender equality administrator (Political Science department)

2020-                     BA counselor - PPE program

2022-                     Teaching committee member (PPE program)

 

 

Awards and Fellowships:

2005                “President’s Scholarship” for Doctoral Fellowships of Excellence at      

                         Bar-Ilan University

2010                A price of excellence, STS program, Bar-Ilan University

2011                Awarded a fellowship as a research scholar from the center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University

2013-2014       Thomas Guggenheim Post Doctorate Fellowship

 

 

Research grants

 

2022 - 2025     Israeli Science Foundation Grant (Personal Research Grants Program). 3 years grant, 172,500 NS per year.

The project:  Prospects for a ‘Dual Necessity’ Account of Social Progress

 

                 

 

 

 

Courses taught:

 

Introduction to political economy (BA, political science students)

Guided readings in PPE (BA, PPE students)

Topics in the history of economic thought (BA, PPE students)

The philosophy of progress and well-being indicators (BA)

Workshop for personal papers (BA, PPE students)

Between concepts and indicators in Political Science (BA, political science)

 

 

Publications

Articles:

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2013). Economics and Ethics under the Same Umbrella: Edgeworth's ‘Exact Utilitarianism’, 1877–1881. Utilitas, 25(4), 487-503.‏ (JCI 83.46; JIFP sjr 90.32, Scopus 68.67 in Philosophy).

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2014). JS Mill and the Value of Utility. History of Political Economy, 46(2), 231-246. *** (JCI 51.65; JIFP sjr 95.09 in History. Scopus 78.04 in History).

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2016) Happiness Studies and the Problem of Interpersonal Comparisons of Satisfaction: Two Histories, Three Approaches. Journal of Happiness Studies, 19(2) 423-442. (JCI 89.6; JIFP sjr 91.55, Scopus 91.14 in Social Sciences).

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2017) Contemporary procedural utility and Hume's early idea of utility. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20(1), 269-282. (JCI 89.6; JIFP sjr 87.31, Scopus 92.54 in Social Sciences).

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2020). Easterlin-paradox: a revisionist account for the enlightened politician. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 1-17. (JIF 40.12; JIFP sjr 88.37; Scopus 84.54 in Philosophy)

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2020) Looking Good or Feeling Well? Understanding the Combinations of Well-Being Indicators Using Insights from the Philosophy of Well-Being. Social Indicators Research, 150(1), 1-16. (JCI 71.2; JIFP sjr 86.7; Scopus 88.61 in Social Sciences).

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S.PI & Sonsino, I.PI (2022). The Case of Stated Preferences and Social Well-Being Indices. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 15(1), 32-55. (JIFP sjr 47.64, Scopus 59.77 in Philosophy)

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2023) The significance of GDP: a new take on a century-old question. Journal of Economic Methodology, 30(1) 1-14. *** (JIF 59.37 in economics; JIFP sjr 81.1. in History and Philosophy of Science; Scopus 71.25 in economics).

 

  1. Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2023) Political Theory in Social Progress Indices: The Mutual Benefits of Theory and Practice. Political Research Exchange 5(1) (JCI 64.92; JIFP sjr 85.6. in Sociology and Political Science; Scopus 75.0 in Political Science and International Relations).

 

  1.  Cohen Kaminitz, S. (2024).  The strong ‘Dual-Necessity’ Principle for Ranking Social Progress World Development Perspectives 33 *** (JCI 58.28 in Economics; JIFP sjr 75.7; Scopus 79.82 in Sociology and Political Science)

 

  1.  Cohen Kaminitz, S PI and Sussman N. PI (Forthcoming).  Experimenting with a Strong Dual Necessity approach to Social Progress Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (JCI 99.43 in Social sciences Interdisciplinary, SJR 96.5, Scopus 99 in General Arts and Humanities). 

Academic Conferences

May 2008             12th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought – Prague

                              Presenting: ‘David Ricardo and utilitarianism’

                               

April 2009            9th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for History and Philosophy of Science (ISHPS), Jerusalem. Presenting chapter: ‘JS Mill’s economics and utilitarianism’

June 2010             HES (History of Economics Society) 2010 annual conference, Syracuse. Presenting: ‘JS Mill and the value of utility’.

Dec 2011               The 2nd Bi-annual International Thomas Guggenheim Conference: David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment. Ben-Gurion University.  Presenting first chapter of my dissertation on the Scottish Enlightenment.

August 2012        The 12th (ISUS) Conference of the International

Society for Utilitarian Studies, at NYU.  Presenting: “Economics and Ethics under the Same Umbrella: Edgeworth's ‘Exact Utilitarianism.’”

June 2013             HES (History of Economics Society) annual conference, Vancouver. Presenting: “Economics and Happiness divorcing at the beginning of the 20th century”.

Aug 2014              The (ISUS) Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Yokohama, Japan. Presenting: “Economics and Happiness divorcing at the beginning of the 20th century”.

Dec 2014               Economics and Psychology in Historical Perspective, Paris. Presenting: “Happiness Studies and the Problem of Interpersonal Comparisons of Satisfaction: Two Histories, Three Approaches”.

July 2015              The centre for Moral and Political Philosophy First Annual Conference, Jerusalem. Presenting: “Happiness Studies and the Problem of Interpersonal Comparisons of Satisfaction: Two Histories, Three Approaches”.

July 2016              The (ISUS) Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Lille, France. Presenting “James Mill’s non-flat Utilitarianism.”

March 2017          EIPE anniversary conference with the local Erasmus
Happiness Research Organization (eHero), Rotterdam. Presenting: “Looking Good or Feeling Well? Understanding the Combinations of Well-Being Indicators Using Insights from the Philosophy of Well-Being.”

April 2018            ISQOLS conference (International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies). Hong Kong. “Looking Good or Feeling Well? Understanding the Combinations of Well-Being Indicators Using Insights from the Philosophy of Well-Being”

March 2019          PPE Conference New Orleans. Presenting: “The Case of Stated Preferences and Social Well-Being Indices.”

Apr 2020              Measurement and its challenges, Jerusalem. Presenting: “Easterlin-paradox: a revisionist account for the enlightened politician.”

Oct 2020               Van-Leer Political Thought workshop, Jerusalem. Presenting: “Re-conceptualizing ‘Social Progress’: presenting the ‘Dual-Necessity’ principle.”

April 2021            NEPSA - New England Political Science Association virtual conference. Presenting: “Re-conceptualizing ‘Social Progress’: presenting the ‘Dual-Necessity’ principle.”

Aug 2022              ECPR - European Consortium for Political Research conference (the Standing Group Methods of Normative Political Theory), Innsbruck. Presenting: “Re-conceptualizing ‘Social Progress’: presenting the ‘Dual-Necessity’ principle.”

Nov 2022              PPE Conference, New Orleans. Presenting: “Beyond Development and Subjective Wellbeing: Experimenting with the Dual Necessity conception of Social Progress.”

Feb 2023               ISPSA conference (Israel Political Science Association), Tel-Aviv. Presenting: Political Theory meets Social Progress Indices: mutual benefits for Theory and Praxis.

Apr 2023              ECPR joint sessions workshops, Toulouse. Presenting: Political Theory meets Social Progress Indices: mutual benefits for Theory and Praxis.

May 2023             INEM conference (International Network for Economic Method), Venice. Presenting the paper:  The significance of GDP: a new take on a century-old question

 

Invited lectures and seminars

Nov 2012              Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University. Presenting: “Edgeworth’s exact utilitarianism.”

Dec 2017               Political Philosophy Forum, Hebrew University. Presenting: “Easterlin- paradox: a revisionist account”.

Dec 2019               University of Washington, Seattle, Philosophy “lunch seminar”. Presenting: “Easterlin-paradox: a revisionist account for the enlightened politician.”

May 2021             Haifa University Political Science seminar. Presenting “Re-conceptualizing ‘Social Progress’: presenting the ‘Dual-Necessity’ principle.”

 

Other publications

Book Reviews

 

Review of Pleasures of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy by Kathleen Blake. Oxford. Utilitas 25:2 (June 2013).

 

Review of The Risk Society at war: Terror, Technology and Strategy in the Twenty-First Centuryby M.V. Rasmussen in Maarachot423 (IDF Publication) Feb 2009.