Ian Gold
Academic title(s):
Professor
Degree(s):
PhD
Areas of expertise:
philosophy of psychiatry
Biography:
Dr. Gold is the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Psychiatry at McGill University. He completed a PhD in philosophy at Princeton University and did postdoctoral training at the Australian National University in Canberra. From 2000 to 2006 he was on the faculty of the School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne and returned to McGill in 2006. His research focuses on the theory of delusion in psychiatric and neurological illness and on reductionism in psychiatry and neuroscience.