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Peter Godfrey-Smith

Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
11969
World Ranking
2722
National Ranking
199

Overview

Peter Godfrey-Smith is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and conducts research primarily in the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work intersects various subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's research topics encompass diverse areas such as Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Child and Animal Learning Development, Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, and Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience.

Peter Godfrey-Smith has published papers in multiple academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Philosophy of Science, Mind & Language, Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Philosophical Topics.

The recent papers by Peter Godfrey-Smith include:

  • Gradualism and the Evolution of Experience, 2020, Philosophical Topics
  • Integration, lateralization, and animal experience, 2021, Mind & Language
  • Varieties of Subjectivity, 2020, Philosophy of Science

Other notable papers connected to this research scope but authored by frequent co-authors detail:

  • Reafference and the origin of the self in early nervous system evolution, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Communication and representation understood as sender-receiver coordination, 2020, Mind & Language

Frequent collaborators of Peter Godfrey-Smith include Craig Callender, David Scheel, Stephanie Chancellor, Stefan Linquist, and Matthew Lawrence, contributing jointly to several publications.

In addition to journal articles, Peter Godfrey-Smith has published a book titled Le prince des profondeurs. L'intelligence exceptionnelle des poulpes in 2021 with Groupe Flammarion.

Best Publications

  • Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Complexity and the function of mind in nature

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Theory and reality : an introduction to the philosophy of science

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • A Modern History Theory of Functions

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • The strategy of model-based science

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Three Kinds of Adaptationism

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Theory and reality

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Models and fictions in science

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Functions: consensus without unity

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Individualist and Multi-level Perspectives on Selection in Structured Populations

    Benjamin Kerr;Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • On the Theoretical Role of "Genetic Coding"

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Philosophy of Biology

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • What is altruism

    Benjamin Kerr;Peter Godfrey-Smith;Marcus W. Feldman

  • Conditions for Evolution by Natural Selection

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Environmental complexity and the evolution of cognition.

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • The Replicator in Retrospect

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Information in Biology

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Information, Arbitrariness, and Selection: Comments on Maynard Smith

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • Signal, Decision, Action

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • A tortoise–hare pattern seen in adapting structured and unstructured populations suggests a rugged fitness landscape in bacteria

    Joshua R. Nahum;Peter Godfrey-Smith;Peter Godfrey-Smith;Brittany N. Harding;Brittany N. Harding;Joseph H. Marcus

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett Tufts University
Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard C Lewontin
Richard C Lewontin Harvard University
Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University
Jerry A. Fodor
Jerry A. Fodor Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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