Orly Ruth Shenker (Hebrew: אורלי שנקר; born 1960)[1] is an Israeli philosopher of physics and philosopher of mind whose research topics have included Maxwell's demon, entropy and fractal geometry, viewed through a form of physicalism that she calls "flat physicalism".
Until 2021 she was director of the Sidney M. Edelstein Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine.
[3][4] Shenker completed a Ph.D. in philosophy of science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997.
[4] With Meir Hemmo, Shenker is co-author of the book The Road to Maxwell's Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
[5] She is also co-editor with Hemmo of Quantum, Probability, Logic: Itamar Pitowsky’s Work and Influence (Springer, 2020).