Ian Gold is Professor of Philosophy & Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at 缅北强奸 in Montreal. His research focuses on the study of delusions, social neuroscience鈥攅specially Theory of Mind鈥攁nd on reductionism in psychiatry and neuroscience. He is the author of research articles in the journals as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Mind and Language, Consciousness and Cognition, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, Transcultural Psychiatry, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Schizophrenia Research, and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. Suspicious Minds (Free Press), a book co-written with his brother Joel Gold on the theory of delusions, appeared in the summer of 2014.
ian.gold [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Selected Articles
Choudhury, S.,听Gold, I., & Kirmayer, L. (2010). From brain image to the Bush Doctrine: Critical neuroscience and the political uses of neurotechnology.听American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience,听1(2), 17-19.
Gold, I., & Kirmayer, L. (2010). Neuroscience as cultural intervention: Reconfiguring the Self as moral agent.听American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience,听1(4), 1鈥�3.
Gold, I., & Olin, L. (2009). From Descartes to desipramine: Psychopharmacology and the self.听Transcultural Psychiatry,听46(1), 38鈥�59.
Gold, I.听(2009). Reductionism in psychiatry.听Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 54(8), 506-512.
Butchart, S., Forster, D.,听Gold, I., Bigelow, J., Korb, K., Oppy, G., & Serrenti, A. (2009). Improving critical thinking using web based argument mapping exercises with automated feedback.听Australasian Journal of Educational Technology,听25, 268-291.
Gold, I., & Gold, J. (2009). The Truman Show delusion.听British Journal of Psychiatry听eletter, 8 June.
Gold, I., Gold, J. (2009). The Truman Show syndrome: The impact of environment on psychosis.听Practical Reviews: Psychiatry,听35(6), recording. Oakstone Medical Publishing.
Gold, I., & Kirmayer, L. (2007). Cultural psychiatry on Wakefield鈥檚 procrustean bed. World Psychiatry, 6(3), 165-166.
Selected Books and Book Chapters
Kirmayer, L., &听Gold, I.听(in press). Re-socializing psychiatry: Critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism. In S. Choudhury, & J. Slaby (Eds.),听Critical Neuroscience: Challenging Reductionism in Social Neuroscience and Psychiatry.听Oxford: Blackwell.
Gold, I., & Gold, J. (in press).听No mind is an island: Madness, society, and the limits of neuroscience.听New York: Free Press.
Gold, I.听(2010). Philosophical psychology. In G. Oppy, & N. Trakakis (Eds.),听A companion to philosophy in Australia and New Zealand.听Melbourne: Monash ePress.
Gold, I., & Gold, J. (2010). Tweet me nice. The Edge Annual Question.听.听Reprinted In J. Brockman (Ed.) 2011.听Is the internet changing the way you think?: The net鈥檚 impact on our minds and future.听New York: Harper Collins.听
Chirimuuta, M., &听Gold, I.听(2009). The embedded neuron, the enactive field? In J. Bickle (Ed.),听Oxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscience听(pp. 200-225).听Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gold, I., & Roskies, A. (2008). Philosophy of neuroscience. In M. Ruse (Ed.),听Oxford companion to the philosophy of biology听(pp. 349-380).听Oxford: Oxford University Press.