Tzofit Ofengenden, PhD

Tzofit earned her PhD in Philosophy from Tübingen University,  Germany, in 2014. Her philosophical interests lie in neuroethics, bioethics and neurophilosophy. Tzofit is especially interested in the new findings in neuroscience that enable brain interventions and the ethical implications that arise from these new possibilities. She is also interested in the way neuroscience reformulates and reshapes central philosophical concepts such as memory, imagination, and consciousness. In her current research,  she examines whether neurobiological paradigms of memory formation (such as multiple trace theory and reconsolidation theory) destabilize the notion of memory as a source of factual truth, raise questions regarding our illusion of constant memories and persistent sense of self and thus change our self-perception and the notion of personal identity.