Peter Godfrey-Smith
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
Peter Godfrey-Smith is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind (2020) and Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (2016), among others. He lives near Sydney.
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Ethics
Philosophers and other animals
Christine Korsgaard argues that we can extend a Kantian moral framework to include other animals. But her argument fails
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Thinkers and theories
Australian philosophy
Despite its reputation as remote and anti-intellectual, Australia has exercised a surprisingly deep influence on philosophy
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