Peter Godfrey-Smith
Philosopher of science and writer
Australian philosopher of science who works on biology and the mind. He wrote the bestselling Other Minds, which explores octopuses and the evolution of intelligence.
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American Born 1965 in Sydney, Australia
About Peter Godfrey-Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith was born in 1965 and grew up in Sydney. He studied at the University of Sydney and earned a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has taught at Stanford University, Harvard University and the CUNY Graduate Center, and is a professor at the University of Sydney. His main research areas are the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind, with further work on pragmatism, especially John Dewey. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life reached the 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize shortlist and has been published in over twenty languages. His book Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection won the 2010 Lakatos Award. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.