Philip Goff | |
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Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Leeds (MA), University of Reading (PhD) |
Spouse | Emma Goff |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophy of mind |
Notable ideas | Panpsychism |
Website | philipgoffphilosophy |
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]
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