Books by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Living on Earth is the third book in Australian philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith's trilogy on the emergence of intelligence on Earth. (The other books are: Other Minds from 2018 and Metazoa in 2020).
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
***🏆 A Five Books Book of the Year ***
“What makes this such an interesting book for me is the combination of the first person and the more scientific and philosophical analysis. I’ve already mentioned that the author is a scuba diver. He’s brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes” Read more...
The Best Philosophy Books of 2020
Nigel Warburton, Philosopher
“What is so compelling about octopuses is, as he says, that they are ‘suffused with nervousness’. They are radically different from vertebrate creatures in that their very body is in part their nervous system. There are twice as many neurons in its tentacles as there are in its brain – about 10,000 neurons per sucker. They can sense the world through their arms. Their nervous system is diffused, not centralised.” Read more...
Noga Arikha, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Peter Godfrey-Smith were recommended
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
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Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-Awareness
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The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness
edited by Manos Tsakiris and Helena De Preester -
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays
by Siri Hustvedt
The best books on Philosophy, Science and the Body, recommended by Noga Arikha
The best books on Philosophy, Science and the Body, recommended by Noga Arikha
Philosophy is a subject of abstract concepts and arguments, traditionally focusing on ideas about the soul or the mind and less so on the body. However, as modern science has made ever more apparent, very little makes sense without it. Philosopher and historian of ideas Noga Arikha recommends books on philosophy, science and the body.
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Consciousness Explained
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Principles of Psychology
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul
by Daniel Dennett & Douglas Hofstadter -
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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The best books on Consciousness, recommended by Susan Blackmore
The best books on Consciousness, recommended by Susan Blackmore
The ‘hard problem’ of consciousness – of how the physical matter of the brain produces the psychological phenomenon of consciousness – has dogged psychologists and neuroscientists for decades. But what if we’ve been posing the question incorrectly all this time? The psychologist Susan Blackmore discusses five key texts that tackle this quicksilver concept.
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The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women
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The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Best Philosophy Books of 2020, recommended by Nigel Warburton
The Best Philosophy Books of 2020, recommended by Nigel Warburton
2020 has been a great year for popular philosophy with many excellent books published. Here, Nigel Warburton, our philosophy editor and co-host of the Philosophy Bites podcast, picks his favourites and explains what he likes about them.
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
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Marx
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The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
by Lyndsey Stonebridge
The Best Philosophy Books of 2024, recommended by Nigel Warburton
The Best Philosophy Books of 2024, recommended by Nigel Warburton
We ask our philosophy editor Nigel Warburton to recommend five of the most notable new books in his specialist area at the end of every year. In 2024, his nominations for the best philosophy books of 2024 include an introduction to the work of Karl Marx, a study of sentience in animals, and an examination of suicide through the work of the Greek tragedians.
