Philip Goff
British philosopher of consciousness at Durham; argues for panpsychism.
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- Philip Goff is a British philosopher and professor at Durham University who works on consciousness.
- He argues for panpsychism, a form of Russellian monism on which consciousness is a fundamental, ubiquitous feature of the physical world.
- In 2021 he and Keith Frankish, who defends the opposite view, started the YouTube channel Mind Chat.
Key facts
- Born
- 19781
- Education
- Philosophy, University of Leeds; PhD, University of Reading, under Galen Strawson1
- Earlier
- University of Hertfordshire; King's College London; associate professor, Central European University1
- Book
- Galileo's Error1
Links
- philipgoff.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
- Philip's Substack (opens philipgoff.substack.com)
- Philip Goff Philosophy (opens youtube.com)
- Mind Chat (opens youtube.com)
- Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Where they publish (ppll) (opens ppll.app)
- What they believe (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
- What they recommend (rcmnd) (opens rcmnd.app)
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