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Peter Godfrey-Smith

Peter Godfrey-Smith is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of seven books, including Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind, and Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. His new book, Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World, will be published later this year. (June 2024)

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