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Peter Godfrey-Smith
History & Commentary
Peter Godfrey-Smith is an Australian philosopher of science and writer, and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
Biography
Peter Godfrey-Smith (born 1965) is an Australian philosopher of science and writer. He is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney and works primarily in philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind. He also has interests in general philosophy of science, pragmatism (especially the work of John Dewey), and parts of metaphysics and epistemology. Godfrey-Smith was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
He has combined scholarly work with firsthand study of cephalopods and is a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted notice. His writing brings together scientific research and philosophical reflection to explore questions about intelligence, consciousness and the evolutionary roots of mind.
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Books by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Other Minds
Other Minds (2016) examines cephalopod intelligence and the evolution of consciousness, combining science and philosophy with Godfrey-Smith's firsthand encounters with octopuses to compare their minds with our own.