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Philip Goff

Disciplines:
philosophy of mind
metaphysics
consciousness
parapsychology/panpsychism

Summary

Philip Goff is a British philosopher at Durham University specializing in philosophy of mind, consciousness, and panpsychism. He is the leading contemporary defender of panpsychism — the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world — and has written several accessible books making the case for it.

Core Contribution

The foremost contemporary defender of panpsychism; his Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (2017) and Why? The Purpose of the Universe (2023) have repositioned panpsychism as a serious academic position and brought it to wide public attention.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • panpsychism
  • consciousness
  • hard problem of consciousness
  • purpose of the universe
  • Durham University

Notable Works & Achievements

Consciousness and Fundamental Reality

Galileo's Error

Why? The Purpose of the Universe

Historical Influences

Galen Strawson David Chalmers William James Bertrand Russell

Intellectual Lineage

Panpsychism tradition William James Galen Strawson David Chalmers

Contemporaries & Peers

Galen Strawson David Chalmers Daniel Dennett Michael Hauskeller

Minds Influenced

Philosophy of mind consciousness studies panpsychism revival

Intellectual Posterity

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