Peter Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Peter Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Philosophy constantly invents new ways to falsely intellectualize our relationship to things that we do.
Nothing stretches our thinking about the mind the way an octopus does.
Science’s victory over bacteria, viruses, and other microbes is far from assured—and we may be part of the problem.
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