Philip Goff
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Philip Goff is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Philosophy Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His main research focus is trying to explain how the brain produces consciousness. He need to radically rethink our understanding of matter in order to explain consciousness, in something like the way Einstein radically rethought the nature of space and time.
Research Interest
Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Action, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Space and Time.
Publications
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Goff P. Orthodox Property Dualism+The Linguistic Theory of Vagueness=Panpsychism. In: Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience. Dordrecht: Springer ; 2014. p. 75-91. (Studies in Brain and Mind).
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Goff P. The Cartesian argument against physicalism. In: Kallestrup J, Sprevak M, editors. New Waves in the Philosophy of Mind. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2014. p. 3-20. ( New waves in philosophy).
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Goff P. Consciousness and Fundamental Reality. Oxford University Press; 2017.
