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Jacob Beck is a Professor of Philosophy at York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and holds the York Research Chair in the Philosophy of Visual Perception. He is affiliated with York’s Cognitive Science Program (served as Director 2018–2022) and the Centre for Vision Research. His research bridges philosophy and cognitive science, focusing on pre-linguistic mental representation, perception, and numerical cognition. He has published in top-tier journals like Mind, Noûs, and The Journal of Philosophy, and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds.
Beck earned a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, with postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis. He has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and fellowships from ACLS and NEH. His teaching includes courses on perception, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.
His recent work explores analog mental representation, the perception-cognition boundary, and the nature of perceptual confidence. Key themes include how sensory systems interact with higher cognition, the role of non-linguistic representation, and the philosophical implications of cognitive neuroscience findings.
