Ian Phillips (philosopher)
{{Short description|British philosopher}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Ian B. Phillips
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|10|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| nationality = British
| spouse = Hanna Pickard
| education = {{plain list|
- Magdalen College, Oxford (BA, MA, 2003, BPhil, 2005)
- University College London (PhD, 2009) }}
| discipline = Philosopher
| sub_discipline = {{hlist|Philosophy of mind|philosophy of perception|Philosophy of cognitive Science}}
| workplaces = Johns Hopkins University
| website = https://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.{{Cite web |title=Ian Phillips {{!}} VPR at JHU |url=https://research.jhu.edu/members/ian-phillips/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |language=en-US}} He is known for his works on the intersection of philosophy and brain science.
Early life and education
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.{{Cite news |date=2009 |title=Sir Jonathan Phillips Elected New Warden of Keble |pages=1 |work=The Brick: The Newsletter for Keble Alumni |url=http://thebrick.keble.net/brick47/brick47.pdf |access-date=6 January 2023 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206083605/http://thebrick.keble.net/brick47/brick47.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |date=2010-11-14 |title=Sir Jonathan Phillips elected new Warden of Keble — Keble |url=http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/news/sir-jontah |access-date=2023-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114002945/http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/news/sir-jontah |archive-date=14 November 2010 }}
Phillips studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1999 to 2005, earning BA, MA and BPhil degrees.{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.ianbphillips.com/cv.html |website=Ian Phillips |access-date=1 December 2022}} 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.{{cite web |last1=deNobel |first1= Jacob|title=Ian Phillips, who explores the intersection of philosophy and brain science, joins Johns Hopkins as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/07/08/ian-phillips-bloomberg-distinguished-professor/ |website=The Hub |language=en |date=8 July 2019}} His primary PhD advisor was Michael G. F. Martin.
Career
Phillips was a lecturer in philosophy at University College London from 2010 until 2013. 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. 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. 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.{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Foundations of Mind Group |url=https://grosssteven8.wixsite.com/website |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=Foundations of Mind |language=en}}
Research
Phillips is a philosopher interested in the intersections of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. His research focuses on the nature of perception,{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=September 2013 |title=Afterimages and Sensation |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2012.00580.x |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |language=en |volume=87 |issue=2 |pages=417–453 |doi=10.1111/j.1933-1592.2012.00580.x|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=2018-12-13 |title=Unconscious Perception Reconsidered |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phib.12135 |journal=Analytic Philosophy |volume=59 |issue=4 |language=en |pages=471–514 |doi=10.1111/phib.12135 |s2cid=148663929 |issn=2153-9596}} its relations to memory,{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian B. |date=September 2011 |title=Perception and Iconic Memory: What Sperling Doesn't Show |journal=Mind & Language |language=en |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=381–411 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0017.2011.01422.x|doi-access=free }} imagination, and belief, the scientific study of consciousness,{{Cite journal |first1=Megan A K |last1=Peters |first2=Robert W |last2=Kentridge |first3=Ian |last3=Phillips |first4=Ned |last4=Block |title=Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate |url=https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2017/1/nix015/4107416 |date=September 6, 2017| volume=2017 |issue=1 |access-date=2023-02-06 |journal=Neuroscience of Consciousness|pages=nix015 |doi=10.1093/nc/nix015 |pmid=30042847 |pmc=6007134 }}{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=September 2016 |title=Consciousness and Criterion: On Block's Case for Unconscious Seeing |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpr.12224 |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |language=en |volume=93 |issue=2 |pages=419–451 |doi=10.1111/phpr.12224|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=2018-09-19 |title=The methodological puzzle of phenomenal consciousness |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |language=en |volume=373 |issue=1755 |pages=20170347 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2017.0347 |issn=0962-8436 |pmc=6074091 |pmid=30061461}} and our experience of time.{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=2012 |title=Attention to the Passage of Time |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23324610 |journal=Philosophical Perspectives |volume=26 |pages=277–308 |doi=10.1111/phpe.12007 |jstor=23324610 |issn=1520-8583|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=February 2014 |title=Experience of and in Time: Experience of and in Time |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phc3.12107 |journal=Philosophy Compass |language=en |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=131–144 |doi=10.1111/phc3.12107|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=2008-07-28 |title=Perceiving Temporal Properties: Perceiving Temporal Properties |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00299.x |journal=European Journal of Philosophy |language=en |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=176–202 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00299.x|url-access=subscription }} He has argued that the phenomenon of blindsight does not involve unconscious vision but instead is qualitatively degraded conscious vision.{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=April 2021 |title=Blindsight is qualitatively degraded conscious vision. |url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/rev0000254 |journal=Psychological Review |language=en |volume=128 |issue=3 |pages=558–584 |doi=10.1037/rev0000254 |pmid=32757572 |s2cid=225415947 |issn=1939-1471}}{{Cite web |title=Sight Unseen |url=https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/2022-spring/sight-unseen/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=Cal Alumni Association |language=en-US}}
He has written about the COVID-19 pandemic impacted memory and our experience of time.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Phillips |date=2022-04-04 |title=Time, in perspective |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/04/04/ian-phillips-perception-of-time/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=The Hub |language=en}}{{Cite web |first=Greg |last=Rienzi |date=2022-04-04 |title=Unscrambling our memories in the wake of COVID-19 |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/04/04/covid-pandemic-memory-loss/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=The Hub |language=en}}
He edited The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (2017).{{cite web |title=The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/PHITRH |website=PhilPapers |access-date=1 December 2022}} 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.
Awards
2017 Philip Leverhulme Prize{{Cite web |title=Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2017 {{!}} The Leverhulme Trust |url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes-2017 |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=www.leverhulme.ac.uk}}
2013 Philosopher's Annual Selection{{Cite web |title=Philosopher's Annual |url=http://www.philosophersannual.org/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=www.philosophersannual.org}}{{Cite web |date=2014-08-27 |title=Congratulations 2013 Philosopher's Annual Winners! |url=https://philosophycompass.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/congratulations-2013-philosophers-annual-winners/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=The Philosopher's Eye |language=en}}
2011 William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness
Personal life
Phillips is married to Hanna Pickard, who is also a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University. The two met when they were both fellows at All Souls College, Oxford.{{Cite web |first=Katie |last=Pearce |date=2020-03-09 |title=BDP philosophers agree: They've got their 'dream jobs' |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/at-work/2020/03/09/family-snapshots-pickard-and-phillips/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=The Hub |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.ianbphillips.com Personal website]
- [https://research.jhu.edu/members/ian-phillips/ Faculty webpage]
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2fmTJzkAAAAJ&hl=en Ian Phillips publications indexed by Google Scholar]
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