NEURO
PHILOSOPHY
LAB

Ian Jeffery Gold is the head of the Neurophilosophy Lab. He is a  Professor of Philosophy & Psychiatry at McGill University. He is also the Chair of the Department of Philosophy.

His research focuses on psychological delusions,  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 and published the book "Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness".

I am an interdisciplinary researcher in McGill University’s Neurophilosophy Lab, at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. I am interested in neuroscience and phenomenology of conscious experiences across the sleep and wake states, including dreaming, hallucinatory phenomena, parasomnias, and altered states of consciousness. I have extensive experience in research on dreams, sleep, memory consolidation, and meditation practices. I have trained in cognitive neuroscience and in philosophy of mind, and I am particularly interested in hybrid states of consciousness, where waking and dreaming boundaries are blurred. My current projects are centred around questions of how the social world influences how and when people sleep, dream, and share experiences across cultures and social groups.

I am a medical doctor, interdisciplinary researcher and science communicator. My research interests are in the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, the humanities and social sciences.  As a postdoctoral fellow in the Neurophilosophy Lab, I study the interactions between social categorization and Theory of Mind. Funded by SSHRC, one of my projects explores the use of literary fiction to reduce out-group biases and improve cross-cultural social cognition and empathy towards those in stigmatized groups. I am also an active collaborator in projects related to vaccine hesitancy,  conspiracy theories  and delusions.  As a science communicator I have published more than 40 articles for Mexican and Canadian media and participated in podcasts and TV programs. I also wrote and directed "SINAPSIS: Connections between art and your brain", a series about art and the brain."

I am a master's student in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience with a background in cognitive neuroscience and mathematics. My research interests include Theory of Mind, neural modalities of perspective-taking, dual-system cognition, and computational modeling of neural systems. In my thesis work, I am searching for linguistic signatures of Theory of Mind in patients with schizophrenia using natural language processing methods. I am concurrently researching neural substrates of implicit Theory of Mind and their functional roles in a TMS study.

I am a recent graduate of Cognitive Science with broad interests in cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, embodied cognition, and phenomenology. I am currently working on Theory of Mind research projects which employ behavioral computer tasks and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). 

I graduated from McGill’s Honours Cognitive Science program with a joint focus in Neuroscience and Psychology, and a minor in English Literature. My primary research foci include empathy, emotion recognition, social judgment, and delusional or distorted beliefs. I am currently working on projects investigating individual differences in empathetic ability, and vaccine hesitancy.

I am a doctoral student at McGill's Integrated Program in Neuroscience. My work focuses on understanding the relationship between bias and health related decision making. I hold an MSc in Neuroscience and have previously worked on decision modeling in various contexts such as political choice, healthcare and education. In addition to my doctoral work, I am a Co-Founder at The Decision Lab - an applied research firm focused on applying behavioral science for social good. I previously advised management on innovation and engagement strategy at The Boston Consulting Group as well as on online media strategy at Google. I have a deep interest in the applications of behavioral science to new technology and has published on these topics in places such as the Huffington Post and Strategy & Business.

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in Ethics at the University of Montreal and visiting fellow at McGill University. I study emotions and moral psychology using a combination of traditional philosophical methods and empirical research tools.

I am a master's student in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill, with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. My research interests include exploring the intersection between social identities, intergroup relations, and the brain, to gain a better understanding of how societal dynamics impact our beliefs. At the Neurophilosophy Lab, my project examines the relationship between perceived social group threat and beliefs, particularly in the context of the ongoing pandemic.