Galileo's error : foundations for a new science of consciousness / Philip Goff.

By: Goff, Philip, 1964- [author.].

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First edition.Description: x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781524747961.Subject(s): Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642

| Panpsychism

| Consciousness

DDC classification: 128.2 GOF

Contents:

How Galileo created the problem of consciousness -- Is there a ghost in the machine? -- Can physical science explain consciousness? -- How to solve the problem of consciousness -- Consciousness and the meaning of life.

Summary: "Rooted in an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science and based on the early twentieth-century work of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell, Goff makes the case for panpsychism, a theory which posits that consciousness is not confined to biological entities but is a fundamental feature of all physical matter--from subatomic particles to the human brain. In Galileo's Error, he has provided the first step on a new path to the final theory of human consciousness."--Dust jacket flap.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Williamson County Public Library	Williamson County Public Library	Nonfiction	2nd Floor	128.2 GOF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		30100014545331

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Rooted in an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science and based on the early twentieth-century work of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell, Goff makes the case for panpsychism, a theory which posits that consciousness is not confined to biological entities but is a fundamental feature of all physical matter--from subatomic particles to the human brain. In Galileo's Error, he has provided the first step on a new path to the final theory of human consciousness."--Dust jacket flap.