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Peter Godfrey-Smith

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I am currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY (City University of New York), and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science (half-time) at the University of Sydney.

I grew up in Sydney, Australia. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Sydney, and I have a PhD in philosophy from UC San Diego. I taught at Stanford University between 1991 and 2003, and then combined a half-time post at the Australian National University and a visiting position at Harvard for a few years. I moved to Harvard full-time and was Professor there from 2006 to 2011, before coming to the CUNY Graduate Center. I took up a half-time position in the HPS program at the University of Sydney in 2015.

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77. Melibe

Some years ago, still new to the Opithsobranch world, I wrote a post on my old website marveling at an animal called Pteraeolidia ianthina, or the Blue Dragon. It was then my candidate for the strangest looking creature I’d ever seen. No longer. While diving at Lembeh Strait earlier this year, we came across the animal above.

I literally could not work out head from tail. It seemed to be moving mostly with one end in front, but t...

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Average rating: 3.86 · 9,425 ratings · 1,170 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness 3.85 avg rating — 8,594 ratings — published 2016 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science 3.90 avg rating — 694 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophy of Biology 3.70 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection 4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scientific Imagination by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Editor), Arnon Levy (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited by Brett Calcott (Editor), Kim Sterelny (Editor) , Joshua Nahum (Contributor) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Social Anxiety: Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives by Stefan G. Hofmann, Peter Godfrey-Smith , Patricia M. DiBartolo (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) by Frédéric Bouchard (Editor), Philippe Huneman (Editor) , Gerd B. Müller (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. —Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus”
― Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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“Cephalopods are an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals. Because our most recent common ancestor was so simple and lies so far back, cephalopods are an independent experiment in the evolution of large brains and complex behavior. If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is not because of a shared history, not because of kinship, but because evolution built minds twice over.”
― Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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“When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origin of us all.”
― Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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