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Ian B. Phillips
Born (1980-10-25) 25 October 1980 (age 44)
London, England
NationalityBritish
SpouseHanna Pickard
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosopher
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Websitehttps://www.ianbphillips.com/

Ian B. Phillips is a British philosopher and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Psychological and Brain Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2019. He has appointments in the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.[1] He is known for his works on the intersection of philosophy and brain science.

Early life and education

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Ian Phillips was born in London on 25 October 1980 to Amanda and Sir Jonathan Phillips, a retired British civil servant who served as warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 2010 to 2022. He has one brother, a journalist in Latin America.[2][3]

Phillips studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1999 to 2005, earning BA, MA and BPhil degrees.[4] He held an Examination Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2005 to 2012. He then earned a PhD in philosophy from University College London in 2009.[5] His primary PhD advisor was Michael G. F. Martin.[4]

Career

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Phillips was a lecturer in philosophy at University College London from 2010 until 2013.[4] He joined St. Anne's College, Oxford, in 2013 as an Associate Professor and Gabriele Taylor Fellow and was made full professor in 2017, a title of distinction awarded by the University of Oxford. He moved to the University of Birmingham as chair in philosophy of psychology in 2017. From 2017 until 2019, he also held an appointment as a visiting research fellow in cognitive science at Princeton University.[4] In 2019, he joined Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, with joint appointments in the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.[5] He is a core member of the Foundations of Mind Group at Johns Hopkins University, which connects researchers across the university who are interested in philosophical, theoretical, and methodological questions about the mind-brain.[6]

Research

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Phillips is a philosopher interested in the intersections of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.[5] His research focuses on the nature of perception,[7][8] its relations to memory,[9] imagination, and belief, the scientific study of consciousness,[10][11][12] and our experience of time.[13][14][15] He has argued that the phenomenon of blindsight does not involve unconscious vision but instead is qualitatively degraded conscious vision.[16][17]

He has written about the COVID-19 pandemic impacted memory and our experience of time.[18][19]

He edited The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (2017).[20] He has served as editor of the academic journal Mind & Language and consulting editor of Timing & Time Perception. He is currently working on a book that studies the relationship between perception and consciousness, focusing on subjects whose perception can be difficult to measure, including infants, animals, and people who have experienced brain damage.[5]

Awards

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2021 Lebowitz Prize[21]

2017 Philip Leverhulme Prize[22]

2013 Philosopher's Annual Selection[23][24]

2011 William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness[5]

Personal life

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Phillips is married to Hanna Pickard, who is also a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University.[5] The two met when they were both fellows at All Souls College, Oxford.[25]

References

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  1. ^ "Ian Phillips | VPR at JHU". Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Sir Jonathan Phillips Elected New Warden of Keble" (PDF). The Brick: The Newsletter for Keble Alumni. 2009. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Sir Jonathan Phillips elected new Warden of Keble — Keble". 14 November 2010. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d "Curriculum Vitae". Ian Phillips. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f deNobel, Jacob (8 July 2019). "Ian Phillips, who explores the intersection of philosophy and brain science, joins Johns Hopkins as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor". The Hub.
  6. ^ "Home | Foundations of Mind Group". Foundations of Mind. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  7. ^ Phillips, Ian (September 2013). "Afterimages and Sensation". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 87 (2): 417–453. doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2012.00580.x.
  8. ^ Phillips, Ian (13 December 2018). "Unconscious Perception Reconsidered". Analytic Philosophy. 59 (4): 471–514. doi:10.1111/phib.12135. ISSN 2153-9596. S2CID 148663929.
  9. ^ Phillips, Ian B. (September 2011). "Perception and Iconic Memory: What Sperling Doesn't Show". Mind & Language. 26 (4): 381–411. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.2011.01422.x.
  10. ^ Peters, Megan A K; Kentridge, Robert W; Phillips, Ian; Block, Ned (6 September 2017). "Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate". Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2017 (1): nix015. doi:10.1093/nc/nix015. PMC 6007134. PMID 30042847. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  11. ^ Phillips, Ian (September 2016). "Consciousness and Criterion: On Block's Case for Unconscious Seeing". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 93 (2): 419–451. doi:10.1111/phpr.12224.
  12. ^ Phillips, Ian (19 September 2018). "The methodological puzzle of phenomenal consciousness". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 373 (1755): 20170347. doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0347. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 6074091. PMID 30061461.
  13. ^ Phillips, Ian (2012). "Attention to the Passage of Time". Philosophical Perspectives. 26: 277–308. doi:10.1111/phpe.12007. ISSN 1520-8583. JSTOR 23324610.
  14. ^ Phillips, Ian (February 2014). "Experience of and in Time: Experience of and in Time". Philosophy Compass. 9 (2): 131–144. doi:10.1111/phc3.12107.
  15. ^ Phillips, Ian (28 July 2008). "Perceiving Temporal Properties: Perceiving Temporal Properties". European Journal of Philosophy. 18 (2): 176–202. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00299.x.
  16. ^ Phillips, Ian (April 2021). "Blindsight is qualitatively degraded conscious vision". Psychological Review. 128 (3): 558–584. doi:10.1037/rev0000254. ISSN 1939-1471. PMID 32757572. S2CID 225415947.
  17. ^ "Sight Unseen". Cal Alumni Association. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  18. ^ Phillips, Ian (4 April 2022). "Time, in perspective". The Hub. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  19. ^ Rienzi, Greg (4 April 2022). "Unscrambling our memories in the wake of COVID-19". The Hub. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  20. ^ "The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience". PhilPapers. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  21. ^ keyreporter (22 June 2021). "2021 Lebowitz Prize". The Key Reporter. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  22. ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2017 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  23. ^ "Philosopher's Annual". www.philosophersannual.org. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  24. ^ "Congratulations 2013 Philosopher's Annual Winners!". The Philosopher's Eye. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  25. ^ Pearce, Katie (9 March 2020). "BDP philosophers agree: They've got their 'dream jobs'". The Hub. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
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