Peter Godfrey-Smith Explained
Peter Godfrey-Smith |
Nationality: | Australian |
Awards: | Lakatos Award |
Thesis Title: | Teleonomy and the Philosophy of Mind |
Thesis Url: | https://roger.ucsd.edu:443/record=b2869450~S9 |
Thesis Year: | 1991 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Philip Kitcher |
Language: | English |
Peter Godfrey-Smith (born 1965) is an Australian philosopher of science and writer, who is currently Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.[1] He works primarily in philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind, and also has interests in general philosophy of science, pragmatism (especially the work of John Dewey), and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology. Godfrey-Smith was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.[2]
Education and career
Born in Australia in 1965, Godfrey-Smith received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego in 1991 under the supervision of Philip Kitcher. He previously taught at Harvard University,[3] Stanford University, Australian National University, and the CUNY Graduate Center.[4] Godfrey-Smith was the recipient of the Lakatos Award[5] for his 2009 book, Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection which discusses the philosophical foundations of the theory of evolution.[6] [7]
He has criticized the arguments of intelligent design proponents.[8] He was an early critic of Covid-19 lockdown measures, beginning with a series of Twitter posts in January 2021.[9] [10] [11]
Other Minds
See main article: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness.
In 2016, Godfrey-Smith published the book .[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]
Selected publications
Books
- Book: Complexity and the function of mind in nature . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1996 . 0-521-45166-3 . 32468942.
- Book: Theory and reality : an introduction to the philosophy of science . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 1st . 2003 . 0-226-30062-5 . 51223665.
- Book: Darwinian populations and natural selection . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 2009 . 978-0-19-156778-0 . 373185464.
- Book: . William Collins . New York . 2016 . 978-0-374-22776-0 . 957696590.
- Book: Metazoa : animal life and the birth of the mind . Farrar, Straus and Giroux . New York . 2020 . 978-0-374-20794-6 . 1158510266.
Further reading
Notes and References
- Web site: University of Sydney – Academic Staff . 6 December 2018 . The University of Sydney .
- Web site: The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022 .
- Web site: Godfrey-Smith joins FAS as professor of philosophy . 16 February 2006 . 6 December 2018 . The Harvard Gazette .
- Web site: A final talk by (and party for) Peter Godfrey-Smith . 2 December 2017 . 6 December 2018 . CUNY Philosophy Academic Commons .
- Web site: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.
- The philosophy of evolution: Godfrey-Smith takes an evolutionary approach to how the mind works. Harvard University Gazette. 8 February 2007. Ken. Gewertz. 26 October 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081011132246/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/02.08/03-godfreysmith.html. 11 October 2008. dead. .
- Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. Oxford University Press. 2010.
- 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.
- Godfrey-Smith. Peter. 2022. Covid Heterodoxy in Three Layers. Monash Bioethics Review. en. 40. 1. 17–39. 10.1007/s40592-021-00140-6. 34839458 . 8627291.
- Web site: Akcay. Erol. 2021. Against "Covid Heterodoxy": Open Review of Godfrey-Smith, 2021.
- Web site: Godfrey-Smith. Peter. 2021. Reply to Ackay.
- What's It Like to Be an Octopus? . 9 March 2017 . 9 July 2017 . New York Magazine . Drake Baer .
- News: Thinking in the Deep: Inside the Mind of an Octopus . 27 December 2016 . 9 July 2017 . New York Times . Carl Safina .
- News: Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith review – the octopus as intelligent alien . 15 March 2017 . 9 July 2017 . Guardian . Philip Hoare .
- What the Octopus Knows . 9 July 2017 . The Atlantic . Olivia Judson .