Congratulations to Jonathan Phillips who recently received tenure!
Jonathan joined the Dartmouth Cognitive Science Program in 2019, and directed the PhilLab. Before starting at Dartmouth, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the psychology department at Harvard University and before that completed his Ph.D. in philosophy and psychology at Yale. His research draws on a broad range of the methods employed across psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science to better understand questions about how humans think about non-actual possibilities, sometimes called "possible worlds." He studies both how people think about possibilities themselves and how the possibilities we consider influence the general way we think, from where we decide to eat lunch, to the language we use, to the causal and moral judgments we make.
Faculty at Dartmouth are evaluated for promotion and tenure in three areas through a rigorous evaluation process: research, teaching, and service. Tenure and promotion recognize the outstanding contributions each has made through their scholarship, teaching, and service.