תחום המחקר העיקרי שלי הוא הפילוסופיה של המוסר. כיום אני מתעסק בעיקר בשאלות הקשורות לטיבה, צידוקה, וגבולותיה של החובה המוסרית והחובה הפוליטית, באתיקה של אמירת אמת, ובאתיקה של הסכמה מדעת. אני מתרכז באופן מיוחד באופן שבו שאלות אלה עולות בתחום הביואתיקה.
פרט לעיסוקי בפילוסופיה, אני גם ממשיך לבדוק חולים כרופא – אפשר לראות בכך מעין תחביב...

My main field of research is philosophical ethics. I am currently dealing mainly with questions concerning the nature, justification, and limits of moral and political obligation, with the ethics of truthfulness, and with the ethics of informed consent. I have a special concentration on the question of how these ethical issues come up in the field of bioethics.
Aside from my occupation in philosophy, I still see patients as a medical doctor – one might see that as one of my hobbies…

Shlomo Cohen – Academic Publications

1. Reichman J., Cohen S., Goldfarb M., et al. "Renal Effects of Nabumetone, a COX-2 Antagonist: Impairment of Function in Isolated Perfused Rat Kidneys Contrasts with Preserved Renal Function in Vivo," Experimental Nephrology, 2001; 9:387-396.
2. Cohen S., "Fundamental Equality and the Phenomenology of Respect," Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2008): 25-53.
3. Cohen S., "Conversations on Ethics," Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 59 (2010): 63-77.
4. Cohen S., "The Gettier Problem in Informed Consent" Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (2011): 642-45.
5. Cohen S., "Soft Categoricity in Ethics" The Philosophical Forum 42 (2011): 35-60.
6. Cohen S., “The Proto-Ethical Dimension of Moods,” in Philosophy’s Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking, Contributions to Phenomenology Series, eds. H. Kenaan and I. Ferber, Springer Press (2011), pp. 173-184.
7. Cohen S. and H. Shapiro, "'Comparable Placebo Treatment' and the Ethics of Deception" Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 38 (2013): 696-709.
8. Cohen S., "Nudging and Informed Consent" American Journal of Bioethics 13(6) (2013): 3-11.
9. Cohen S., "Nudging in Context" American Journal of Bioethics 13(11) (2013): W1-W6.
10. Cohen S., "The Nocebo Effect of Informed Consent," Bioethics 28(3) (2014): 147-154.
Reprinted in: Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer, Bioethics: An Anthology, 3rd edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2016), pp. 683-692.
11. Cohen S., "Human Being as Existential Paradox" Appraisal: The Journal of the Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies 10(1) (2014): 28-32.
12. Cohen S. "Abortion and Moral Perception" Public Affairs Quarterly 28 (1) (2014): 1-18
13. Cohen S., "The Ethics of De-extinction" NanoEthics 8 (2014): 165-178.
14. Cohen S., "Forced Supererogation" European Journal of Philosophy 23.4 (2015): 1006-1024.
15. Cohen S., "A Philosophical Misunderstanding at the Basis of Opposition to Nudging," American Journal of Bioethics 15.10 (2015): 39-41.
16. Cohen S., "Genetic Integrity, Authenticity, and Aesthetic Worth" Ethics, Policy, and Environment 18.3 (2015): 271-274.
17. Cohen S., "The Irrelevance of Ontology for the Ethics of Autonomy" American Journal of Bioethics 16.2 (2016): 46-47.
18. Cohen S., "Are There Moral Limits to Military Deception?" Philosophia 44 (2017): 1305-1318.
19. Cohen S., "Preventing Nocebo Effects of Informed Consent without Paternalism" American Journal of Bioethics 17 (6) (2017): 44-46.
20. Cohen S., "Didactical Ordering and Emotional Moral Persuasion," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 16 (Spring 2017): 6-8.
21. Cohen S., "Manipulation and Deception," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2017) [DOI:10.1080/00048402.2017.1386692]
22. Cohen S., "On Nudging Health" Hastings Center Report (January-February 2018) [forthcoming]
23. Cohen S., "The Moral Gradation of Media of Deception" Theoria [DOI:10.1111/theo.12139]

Post Doctorate (2007-8), Dept. of Philosophy, UCLA

Doctor of Philosophy (2006), Dept. of Philosophy, Hebrew University

Master of Arts (1997-2001). Dept. of Philosophy, Hebrew University

Doctor of Medicine (1989-1995). Hadassah Medical School of Hebrew University
(1996-1997). Internship: Hadassah Hospital.

Courses taught

"Introduction to Ethics" (BA) – Ben-Gurion University

"Introduction to Political Philosophy" (BA) – Ben-Gurion University

"Dilemmas in Bioethics" (BA) – Ben-Gurion University

"Topics in Normative Ethics" (BA) – Ben-Gurion University

"Truthfulness, Lying, and Deception" (BA) – BGU; Hebrew University

"Moral Psychology" (BA) – Ben-Gurion University

"The Philosophy of Sexuality" (BA) – Tel-Aviv University

"Medical Ethics" (BA) – UCLA

"Metaethics" (BA) – UCLA

"Autonomy, Paternalism, and Consent" (MA) – Ben-Gurion University

"The Limits of Rationality in Ethics" (MA) – Ben-Gurion University

"Human Dignity and the Duty to Respect" (MA) – Ben-Gurion University

"Ethics and Ontology" (MA) – Hebrew University