Ivan Phillips

Ivan Phillips is the author of Textbook Rationality and a frequent speaker on science and rational thinking. Ivan advocates for the teaching of rationality in high schools, where a course on rational thinking can tie together topics in science, critical thinking, and statistics.

Ivan earned his doctorate in theoretical physics from Northwestern University studying methods for detecting differences between matter and antimatter at colliders. He still lives in the Chicago area where he works as a software architect and trains in Wing Tsun kung fu.