Philip Goff (philosopher)

Philip Goff
Goff in 2018
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Leeds (MA), University of Reading (PhD)
SpouseEmma Goff
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas
Panpsychism
Websitephilipgoffphilosophy.com
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Philip Goff is a British author, idealist philosopher, and professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness.[1] Specifically, it focuses on how consciousness can be part of the scientific worldview. Goff holds that materialism is incoherent and that dualism leads to "complexity, discontinuity and mystery".[2] Instead, he advocates a "third way", a version of Russellian idealist monism that attempts to account for reality's intrinsic nature by positing that consciousness is a fundamental, ubiquitous feature of the physical world. "The basic commitment is that the fundamental constituents of reality—perhaps electrons and quarks—have incredibly simple forms of experience."[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ "Panpsychism and the Nature of Consciousness". CBC Radio. 13 September 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
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