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Philip Goff

British philosopher; professor at Durham University working on consciousness; a leading advocate of panpsychism and author of Galileo's Error (2019) and Why? The Purpose of the Universe (2023).

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God, Purpose, and RealityBook John Bishop & Ken Perszyk

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God, Purpose, and Reality, by John Bishop and Ken Perszyk, is coming out this year with Oxford University Press, and I’m going to be reviewing it.

Five Books interview: the best books on Cosmic Purpose

2023-11-19·fivebooks.com ↗

UniversesBook John Leslie

recommended

One of the most vivid ways of responding to that objection is John Leslie’s firing squad analogy, which appears in his book Universes, which we’ll be discussing later.

Five Books interview: the best books on Cosmic Purpose

2023-11-19·fivebooks.com ↗

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