Ian Gold
Biography
Ian Jeffery Gold is Professor of Philosophy & Psychiatry at McGill University. He is also the Chair of the Department of Philosophy.
He has written about psychological delusions, the theory of mind, & reductionism in neuroscience and psychiatry.
He has taught courses on the philosophy of neuroscience, the philosophy of psychiatry, and the philosophy of mind.
Together with his brother, psychiatrist Joel Gold, he co-developed the idea of the Truman Show delusion.
You can find his book, Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness, co-authored with Joel Gold, here.
Interviews
Education
PhD Philosophy, Princeton University
MA Philosophy, McGill University
BA Philosophy, McGill University
Doctoral Dissertation
Color and Other Illusions: A Philosophical Theory of Vision
Institutions
McGill University (2006 - present)
Fields
Philosophy
Psychology
Topics
Psychological Delusions
Reductionism (Psychology)
Theory of Mind
Selected Publications
Theory of Mind
Schmidtmann, Gunnar & Logan, Andrew & Carbon, Claus-Christian & Loong, Joshua & Gold, Ian. In the Blink of an Eye: Reading Mental States From Briefly Presented Eye Regions. i-Perception. 2020. 11.
Schmidtmann, Gunnar & Jennings, Ben & Sandra, Dasha & Pollock, Jordan & Gold, Ian. The McGill Face Database: Validation and Insights Into the Recognition of Facial Expressions of Complex Mental States. Perception. 2020. 49. 1-20.
Schmidtmann, Gunnar & Jordan, Maiya & Loong, Joshua & Andrew, Canada & Logan, J & Carbon, Claus-Christian & Gold, Ian. Temporal processing of facial expressions of mental states. Iperception. 2020 Sep-Oct; 11(5).
Prevost, Marie & Carrier, Marie-Eve & Chowne, Gabrielle & Zelkowitz, Phyllis & Joseph, Lawrence & Gold, Ian. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes test: Validation of a French version and exploration of cultural variations in a multi-ethnic city. Cognitive neuropsychiatry. 2013. 19.
Reductionism
Gold, Ian. Re: Reduction in Psychiatry and Psychiatry and Neuroscience. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2010. 55. 1
Gold, Ian. Reduction in Psychiatry. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2009. 54. 506-12.
Kirmayer, Laurence & Gold, Ian. Re-Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of Reductionism. Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience. 2011. 305-330.
Delusions
Gold, Joel & Gold, Ian. The “Truman Show” delusion: Psychosis in the global village. Cognitive neuropsychiatry. 2012. 17.
Fine, Cordelia & Craigie, Jillian & Gold, Ian. Damned If You Do; Damned If You Don't: The Impasse in Cognitive Accounts of the Capgras Delusion. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. 2005. 12(2):143-151.
Fine, Cordelia & Gold, Ian. The Explanation Approach to Delusion. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. 2005. 12(2):159-163.
Positions
Chair of the Department of Philosophy, McGill University (2021 - present)
Professor of Philosophy & Psychiatry, McGill University (2019 - present)
Associate Professor of Philosophy & Psychiatry, McGill University (2013-2019)
Canada Research Chair in Philosophy & Psychiatry, McGill University (2006 - 2013)
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University (2003 - 2005)
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Monash University (2000 - 2002)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University (1999 - 2006)
Fellow, Vision Research Unit, McGill University (1999)
Visiting Fellow, Program in Philosophy, Australian National University (1997 - 1998)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Optical Sciences Centre, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University (1995 - 1997)
Visiting Positions
Departments of Philosophy & Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College (Fall 2002)