Victoria Philibert

I am a philosopher, ethicist, and researcher from the unceded territories of the Songhees and Esquimalt (Xʷsepsəm) First Nations in what is called Victoria, B.C. My pronouns are she/her.

I investigate how imaginations and languages shape our understanding of bodily and mental states, and how these frameworks are opening up new directions for research into the origins of illness and health.

I am currently a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. I am leading the SSHRC-funded project, “The Ethics of Looping Effects and Diagnoses in Natural Language Processing (NLP).”

I also collaborate with artists, computer scientists, & dream researchers on Elsewhere, an AI-powered dream journal app, and the Sleep & Dream Database (SDDb), a growing archive of dream reports and survey data.

Outside work, I practice yoga, react to music, and write poems.