Philosopher of mind and psychology, studying perception, consciousness, imagination, time and memory. BDP in Philosophy, and Psych and Brain Sciences @ Johns Hopkins. Writing a biography of Gareth Evans. ianbphillips.com
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Applications for the #CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School open April 29!
Join us in December to discuss "why consciousness matters": why we value it, why it might matter for moral status or exist evolutionarily, & why we have to get C-science right for society & our global future.
What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?
An illuminating dialogue between philosophers Hanna Pickard and Kieran Setiya on addiction
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Follow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […]
*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - MIABRIDGE workshop*
We are now accepting abstract submissions for poster presentations, and you can submit your abstract here: sites.google.com/view/miabrid...
Deadline for abstract submission: 31/05/2026 (23:59, CEST)
Looking forward to hopefully seeing some of you in Paris!
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Looking forward to giving this talk 'On the threshold of consciousness' tomorrow (11 a.m. EST, Wed, Feb 3rd) @cialab.bsky.social. For further details and how to join, see: cialab.unimi.it/cognition-in....
I'm hiring again!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
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My review of Michal Pollan's book on consciousness: www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...
How opaque is our own visual processing to us? Our final lab presentation at #VSS2026 is by Noa Perlmutter, whose talk (w/ @ianbphillips.bsky.social) reports a surprising degree of awareness of our own visual biases. 11:30am in Talk Room 2!
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(Perceptual) space and time are warped by the gravity of objects and events in their vicinity. There's been a flurry of work recently documenting examples of this gravity, all resulting in some really neat illusions.
@brynnsherman.bsky.social and I discuss all of those, here:
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Speaker: Ian Phillips (Johns Hopkins) Ian Phillips is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He is jointly appointed in the William H. Miller, III Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He is also Associate Principal Investigator in Chaz Firestone’sPerception & Mind Lab, and a core member of the Foundations of Mind group. His work lies at the […]
Years of piloting my own visual psychophysics studies trained me for this moment.
Any vision scientists out there that can do better than me?
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem
It's #VSS2026! SO excited about the projects we've brought with us this year, and of course #phiVis to close things out. Come say hi, and don't forget to grab your lab 'merch' 👀
perception.jhu.edu/vss/
