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Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Professor
Peter Godfrey-Smith

Emerson 309
617-495-4697
pgs@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pgs

Peter Godfrey-Smith was an undergraduate at the University of Sydney and received his PhD from UC San Diego. He has taught at Stanford and the Australian National University, and joined the Harvard Department full-time in 2006, after several terms as a visitor. His main research interests are in the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind. He also works on pragmatism (especially John Dewey), general philosophy of science, and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology. He is the author of Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge, 1996) and Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Chicago, 2003). His personal website, with online papers, is here .


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