Ian Gold is Professor of Philosophy & Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Â鶹Çø in Montreal. His research focuses on the study of delusions, social neuroscience—especially Theory of Mind—and 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.,ÌýGold, I., & Kirmayer, L. (2010). From brain image to the Bush Doctrine: Critical neuroscience and the political uses of neurotechnology.ÌýAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience,Ìý1(2), 17-19.
Gold, I., & Kirmayer, L. (2010). Neuroscience as cultural intervention: Reconfiguring the Self as moral agent.ÌýAmerican Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience,Ìý1(4), 1–3.
Gold, I., & Olin, L. (2009). From Descartes to desipramine: Psychopharmacology and the self.ÌýTranscultural Psychiatry,Ìý46(1), 38–59.
Gold, I.Ìý(2009). Reductionism in psychiatry.ÌýCanadian Journal of Psychiatry, 54(8), 506-512.
Butchart, S., Forster, D.,ÌýGold, I., Bigelow, J., Korb, K., Oppy, G., & Serrenti, A. (2009). Improving critical thinking using web based argument mapping exercises with automated feedback.ÌýAustralasian Journal of Educational Technology,Ìý25, 268-291.
Gold, I., & Gold, J. (2009). The Truman Show delusion.ÌýBritish Journal of PsychiatryÌýeletter, 8 June.
Gold, I., Gold, J. (2009). The Truman Show syndrome: The impact of environment on psychosis.ÌýPractical Reviews: Psychiatry,Ìý35(6), recording. Oakstone Medical Publishing.
Gold, I., & Kirmayer, L. (2007). Cultural psychiatry on Wakefield’s procrustean bed. World Psychiatry, 6(3), 165-166.
Selected Books and Book Chapters
Kirmayer, L., &ÌýGold, I.Ìý(in press). Re-socializing psychiatry: Critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism. In S. Choudhury, & J. Slaby (Eds.),ÌýCritical Neuroscience: Challenging Reductionism in Social Neuroscience and Psychiatry.ÌýOxford: Blackwell.
Gold, I., & Gold, J. (in press).ÌýNo mind is an island: Madness, society, and the limits of neuroscience.ÌýNew York: Free Press.
Gold, I.Ìý(2010). Philosophical psychology. In G. Oppy, & N. Trakakis (Eds.),ÌýA companion to philosophy in Australia and New Zealand.ÌýMelbourne: Monash ePress.
Gold, I., & Gold, J. (2010). Tweet me nice. The Edge Annual Question.Ìý.ÌýReprinted In J. Brockman (Ed.) 2011.ÌýIs the internet changing the way you think?: The net’s impact on our minds and future.ÌýNew York: Harper Collins.Ìý
Chirimuuta, M., &ÌýGold, I.Ìý(2009). The embedded neuron, the enactive field? In J. Bickle (Ed.),ÌýOxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscienceÌý(pp. 200-225).ÌýOxford: Oxford University Press.
Gold, I., & Roskies, A. (2008). Philosophy of neuroscience. In M. Ruse (Ed.),ÌýOxford companion to the philosophy of biologyÌý(pp. 349-380).ÌýOxford: Oxford University Press.