Waiting for Einstein: Change and Crisis in the Mind Sciences (with Shahar Gindi).
This book offers a critique of contemporary psychology’s dominant methodological framework. We trace how a strict neo-positivist behaviorist model, centered on quantification, statistical significance, and tightly controlled experimentation, came to define legitimacy in the field despite computational issues. That consolidation brought technical discipline, but also unintended constraints: a widening gap between research and clinical practice, an overload of low-impact findings, and growing dependence on proxy measures that flatten mental life into narrow variables.
Through detailed case analyses, including analysis of diagnostic systems, brain imaging research, evidence-based treatment standards, and publication pathologies, we show how methodological orthodoxy can quietly displace explanatory ambition and ethical responsibility. The argument is not anti-scientific; it is anti-reductionist. We defend a broader model of inquiry that preserves empirical rigor while integrating clinical knowledge, historical awareness, and human understanding.
Mind Over Machine (in progress)
Many AI architectures inherit simplified models of cognition from late-twentieth-century psychology—models that neglect tacit knowledge, contextual judgment, and moral agency—and when scaled, these limitations scale with them. The book will examine how algorithmic systems shape decision-making in mental health, education, and public discourse, focusing on bias, automated evaluation, and the erosion of professional judgment. Rather than framing AI risk as merely technical, the project develops a human-centered framework grounded in psychological realism and philosophical analysis of responsibility and choice, and advances design and governance principles that protect empathy, interpretation, and accountable judgment.
Chess in the Jewish Community of Palestine and Israel: A History (with Shahar Gindi). Forthcoming from McFarland Books, 2026.
We are now completing a book on chess in Mandatory Palestine and the early state of Israel. The book covers the period from the establishment of British rule in 1918, to the Tel Aviv chess Olympiad of 1964. It is, to my knowledge, the first comprehensive study of this exciting but unknown chapter in chess history.
Selected Works in Progress