Great column by Nicholas Kristof.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...
Plans for next year. Bochum, Germany.
Tomorrow at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, I give the 2026 Nagel Lecture (named after Ernest N, a wise mid-20th century NYC philosopher, rather than Thomas N, equally NYC and equally wise).
A mind-body talk. IRL only.
philosophy.columbia.edu/events/2026-...
Nice choice of Turner for the art (thanks @lrb.co.uk – I am a Turner fanatic).
The book is ocean-sized and oceanic in its atmosphere.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
This link has an excerpt. 2/
Episode 3 of the London Review of Books "Nature in Crisis" podcast, with @meehancrist.bsky.social and myself, is about Helen Czerski's book "The Blue Machine."
I enjoyed this one a lot, both book & conversation.
(@helenczerski.bsky.social, @lrb.co.uk, link below). 1/
Peter Godfrey-Smith
A discussion of "biological naturalism" about the mind, and a candidate for biological properties that might matter to consciousness: Oscillations & other large-scale dynamic properties of nervous systems. (Free link for now.)
iai.tv/articles/stu...
This is great.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... (free link)
"Notably, half of the whales attending were not related to the mother."
"The calf was rarely left untouched, and it was usually being touched by at least two whales simultaneously."
Link here to a preprint of my short article about consciousness, "biological naturalism," and electrical brain rhythms published by IAI TV earlier this year.
Preprint: petergodfreysmith.com/wp-content/u...
Published (no longer open access): iai.tv/articles/stu...
<p><em>We’re often seduced by the idea that the mind is a computer, and that consciousness is just a matter of running the right code. But philosopher <strong>Peter Godfrey-Smith</strong>, renowned fo...
