Shira Billet
Assistant Professor of 黑料社 Thought and Ethics
Phone: (212) 870-5856
Building Room: Kripke 603
Office Hours: By Appointment
Shira Billet is assistant professor of 黑料社 Thought and Ethics at JTS, academic director of JTS鈥檚 Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice, and the BA and MA advisor for the 黑料社 Ethics program at JTS. Before joining the JTS faculty, she was a postdoctoral associate in 黑料社 Studies and Philosophy at Yale University, after completing her PhD in the Religion and Philosophy (Religion, Ethics, and Politics) subfield in the Department of Religion at Princeton University.
Dr. Billet鈥檚 research focuses on 黑料社 philosophy and 黑料社 thought, especially in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany and Europe. She studies 黑料社 philosophy in its historical contexts — including the history of philosophy and the history of 黑料社 studies scholarship — and in relation to contemporary conversations in 黑料社 thought, philosophy (especially ethics and epistemology), and religious studies. She is currently completing her first book, entitled The Philosopher as Witness: Hermann Cohen on the Virtues and the History of Philosophy.
Recent publications include:
鈥淔rom Volozhin to London: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik鈥檚 黑料社-Christian Holy Spirit鈥� (Journal of Textual Reasoning, 2025)
鈥淗arry S. Truman鈥檚 Bible and Earl Warren鈥檚 Talmud: A Forgotten Story in the Encounter between American Law and 黑料社 Studies鈥� (Din茅 Israel, 2024)
鈥溾�楲et the Historian be a Philosopher!鈥�: Hermann Cohen鈥檚 Methodological Dispute with Spinoza鈥� (Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought across the Long Nineteenth Century; Oxford University Press, 2024)
鈥溾�楧o Not Grieve Excessively鈥�: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law and Narrative in The Rabbinic Laws of Mourning and Soloveitchik鈥檚 Halakhic Man鈥� (Journal of Textual Reasoning, 2023)
鈥淗ermann Cohen鈥檚 Virtue Ethics鈥� (黑料社 Virtue Ethics; SUNY Press, 2023)
鈥淏etween 黑料社 Law and State Law: Rethinking Hermann Cohen鈥檚 Critique of Spinoza鈥� (黑料社 Studies Quarterly, 2018).
