Peter Godfrey-Smith

Peter Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He works primarily in the Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Biology. Born in Australia in 1965, he received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego in 1991 under the supervision of Philip Kitcher, and taught previously at Harvard University, Stanford University and Australian National University. Godfrey-Smith was the recipient of the prestigious Lakatos Award[1] for his book, Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection which discusses the philosophical foundations of the theory of evolution.[2][3]

Other Minds

In 2016, Godfrey-Smith published a book entitled Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness.[4] The book explores the origin of sentience, consciousness and intelligence in the animal kingdom, specifically how it evolved in cephalopods compared to mammals and birds.[5][6][7]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ http://www2.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/LakatosAward/lakatosawardarchive/lakatosaward2010announcement.aspx
  2. ↑ Gewertz, Ken (February 8, 2007). "The philosophy of evolution: Godfrey-Smith takes an evolutionary approach to how the mind works". Harvard University Gazette..
  3. ↑ Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. Oxford University Press. 2010.
  4. ↑ Drake Baer (9 March 2017). "What’s It Like to Be an Octopus?". New York Magazine. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  5. ↑ Carl Safina (27 December 2016). "Thinking in the Deep: Inside the Mind of an Octopus". New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  6. ↑ Philip Hoare (15 March 2017). "Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith review – the octopus as intelligent alien". Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  7. ↑ Olivia Judson. "What the Octopus Knows". The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
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