Peter Godfrey-Smith

Main article: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

In 2016, Godfrey-Smith published the book Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness . ^[12] It explores the origin of sentience, consciousness and intelligence in the animal kingdom, specifically how it evolved in cephalopods compared to mammals and birds. ^{[13] [14] [15]}

Books

• Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. ISBN   0-521-45166-3. OCLC   32468942.
• Theory and Reality: an Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1st ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. ISBN   0-226-30062-5. OCLC   51223665.
• Darwinian populations and natural selection. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN   978-0-19-156778-0. OCLC   373185464.
• Philosophy of Biology. Princeton University Press. 2014. ISBN   9780691140018. OCLC   881399003.
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness . New York: William Collins. 2016. ISBN   978-0-374-22776-0. OCLC   957696590.
• Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. ISBN   978-0-374-20794-6. OCLC   1158510266.
• Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. ISBN   978-0-37418-993-8. OCLC   1435751478.

References

1. "University of Sydney – Academic Staff". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
2. "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022".
3. "Godfrey-Smith joins FAS as professor of philosophy". The Harvard Gazette. 16 February 2006. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
4. "A final talk by (and party for) Peter Godfrey-Smith". CUNY Philosophy Academic Commons. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
5. "Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method".
6. Gewertz, Ken (8 February 2007). "The philosophy of evolution: Godfrey-Smith takes an evolutionary approach to how the mind works". Harvard University Gazette. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2008..
7. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. Oxford University Press. 2010.
8. Godfrey-Smith, Peter. (2001). Information and the Argument from Design. In Robert T. Pennock. Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives. MIT Press. pp. 575–596.
9. Godfrey-Smith, Peter (2022). "Covid Heterodoxy in Three Layers". Monash Bioethics Review. 40 (1): 17–39. doi:10.1007/s40592-021-00140-6. PMC   8627291 . PMID   34839458.
10. Akcay, Erol (2021). "Against "Covid Heterodoxy": Open Review of Godfrey-Smith, 2021" (PDF).
11. Godfrey-Smith, Peter (2021). "Reply to Ackay" (PDF).
12. Drake Baer (9 March 2017). "What's It Like to Be an Octopus?". New York Magazine. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
13. Carl Safina (27 December 2016). "Thinking in the Deep: Inside the Mind of an Octopus". New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
14. Philip Hoare (15 March 2017). "Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith review – the octopus as intelligent alien". Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
15. Olivia Judson. "What the Octopus Knows". The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 July 2017.

Further reading

• Stubbings, Diane (January–February 2021). "Gradual evolution: investigating the origins of consciousness: review of Metazoa: animal minds and the birth of consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith" . Australian Book Review. 428: 62.

External links

• Official website

Peter Godfrey-Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith reads from Other Minds at Adelaide Writers Week 2018
Born	1965 (age 59–60)
Nationality	Australian
Awards	Lakatos Award
Education
Education	University of Sydney UC San Diego
Thesis	Teleonomy and the Philosophy of Mind  (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Philip Kitcher

v t e Philosophy of biology
Themes	Ethics Eugenics Dysgenics Kin selection Naturalism Reductionism Holism Emergence Evolutionary taxonomy
Evolution	Adaptationism Alternatives to Darwinian evolution Catastrophism Lamarckism Orthogenesis Mutationism Structuralism Spandrel Theistic Vitalism Darwinism Evolutionary epistemology Teleology Tree of life
Philosophers of biology	John Beatty Lindley Darden Daniel Dennett John Dupré Carla Fehr Marjorie Grene Peter Godfrey-Smith James R. Griesemer Paul E. Griffiths David Hull Hans Jonas Philip Kitcher Tim Lewens Helen Longino Jane Maienschein Roberta Millstein Sandra Mitchell Susan Oyama Alex Rosenberg Michael Ruse Sahotra Sarkar Elliott Sober Kim Sterelny Alfred I. Tauber Francisco Varela Gerard Verschuuren William C. Wimsatt
Biologists	Francisco J. Ayala Patrick Bateson Charles Darwin Richard Dawkins Jared Diamond Michael Ghiselin François Jacob Stephen Jay Gould Richard Lewontin Konrad Lorenz Humberto Maturana Ernst Mayr Jacques Monod Denis Noble Joan Roughgarden Rolf Sattler John Maynard Smith E. O. Wilson Jonas Salk
Related	Philosophy of mind History of biology