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Dr Philip Goff

Associate Professor / Director of UG & PG Student Experience


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Associate Professor / Director of UG & PG Student Experience in the Department of Philosophy  
Associate Member in the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS)  

Biography

Email: philip.a.goff@durham.ac.uk

Office hours:

Tuesday & Thursday: 4-5

Friday: 3-4

About me

My main research project is trying to work out how consciousness fits into our overall theory of reality. I argue that the traditional approaches of materialism (consciousness can be explained in terms of physical processes in the brain) and dualism (consciousness is separate from the body and brain) face insuperable difficulties. On the basis of this I defend a form of panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. It sounds a bit crazy, but I try to show that it avoids the difficulties faced by its rivals .

My first academic book, Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (Oxford University Press), was published last year and my first book aimed at a general audience, Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (Rider in UK, Pantheon in US), will be published in November 2019.

You can access more of my pubilcations, and my articles for a general audience, on my website: www.philipgoffphilosophy.com

Publications

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Other (Digital/Visual Media)

  • Goff, P. (2017). Panpsychism.