Zvi Hasnes-Beninson

Zvi Hasnes-Beninson is a predoctoral visiting fellow from the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Before starting his PhD, Zvi obtained an MA from the Cohn Institute, and another MA from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on processes of model-formulation, especially in the context of the life sciences. Zvi studies conceptual controversies in evolutionary biology (especially sociobiology) in an attempt to understand which epistemic commitments were held by participants involved in those controversies, how these commitments were formalized into models, and what roles these models played in the controversy once formalized. Zvi is currently working in the historical epistemology of modeling project.