Philip Goff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Goff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Goff |
| SIGNATURE | GOFF P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, E-mail: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Capuciis Furruratis cum Serico Duplicatis
Beginning in the fifteenth century, silk linings were introduced into the academic hoods of the senior degrees for use during the summer (officially between Easter and All Saints) as a cooler alternative to the expensive fur. Bachelors (other than those in Divinity and Canon Law) were still required to line their hoods with cheap fur throughout the year. Although the 1443 foundation statutes of All Souls College, Oxford, require graduate fellows …
The Development of the Burgon Society Hoods
The [s2] was straightforward, but the [f7] had a more dramatic inception. Both are appropriate hoods for Fellows of the Burgon Society, as recounted in this Primary Source article
A Tribute to Nicholas Groves
A tribute on the death of Nicholas Groves, a founder of the Burgon Society, scholar of academic dress, and frequent contributor to Transactions of the Burgon Society
Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse
Our best current science seems to suggest the laws of physics and the initial conditions of our universe are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. A significant number of scientists and philosophers believe that the fine-tuning is evidence for the multiverse hypothesis. This paper will focus on a much-discussed objection to the inference from the fine-tuning to the multiverse: the charge that this line of reasoning commits the inverse gambler’s…
The Academic Dress of Doctors of Philosophy at the University of London
The introduction at the University of London of the Doctor of Philosophy degree led to the need for appropriate academic costume. The Senate was formally responsible for regulating the academic dress of the University, but Convocation traditionally took the lead in the matter, and prepared reports for consideration by the Senate. Accordingly, the Establishment and General Purposes Committee of the Senate wrote to the Standing Committee of Convoca…
University of Portsmouth Academic Dress
The University of Portsmouth has its origins in the Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art (1870), the Portsmouth Municipal Technical Institute (1894) and Portsmouth Municipal College (1908), which replaced the earlier Institute. The College also took under its wing the College of Art, Portsmouth Day Training College for teachers and a public library.This article examines the development of academic dress at the University of Portsmouth
Civil Religion Today
It has been a half century since Robert Bellah published “Civil Religion in America,” and in that time much has changed regarding the religious, cultural, social, and political reality of America. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine the usefulness of the concept as Bellah articulated it, analyze the ways in which the idea of civil religion has been and can be amended, and apply its perspective to both re…
Essentialist modal rationalism
It used to be thought that rational coherence and metaphysical possibility went hand in hand. Kripke and Putnam put a spanner in the works by proposing examples of propositions which seem to violate this principle. I will propose a nuanced form of modal rationalism consistent with the Kripke/Putnam cases. The rough idea is that rational coherence entails possibility when you grasp the essential nature of what you’re conceiving of
Blithering Nonsense’
With the largest number of students in Britain, one of its younger academic institutions celebrates an important milestone
The Integrated Information Theory
Book Review| December 01 2020 The Integrated Information Theory: Important Insights But not a Complete Theory of Consciousness The Feelings of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed, By Christof Koch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. 241 pp. Paper, $19.95. Philip Goff Philip Goff Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this …
Galileo's Error
"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 …
Panentheism and Panpsychism
Panpsychism has become a highly attractive position in the philosophy of mind. On panpsychism, both the physical and the mental are inseparable and fundamental features of reality. Panentheism has also become immensely popular in the philo-sophy of religion. Panentheism strives for a higher reconciliation of an atheistic pantheism, on which the universe itself is causa sui, and the ontological dualism of necessarily existing, eternal creator and …
Conscious Thought and the Cognitive Fine-Tuning Problem
Cognitive phenomenalism is the view that occurrent thoughts are identical with, or constituted of, cognitive phenomenology. This paper raises a challenge for (standard forms of) this view: the cognitive fine-tuning problem. In broad brushstrokes the difficulty is that, for the cognitive phenomenalist, there is a distinction between three kinds of fact: cognitive phenomenal facts, sensory phenomenal facts, and functional facts. This distinction gi…
The Bible in American Life
This book is an interdisciplinary reflection on the ways Americans use the Bible in their personal lives. It considers how other influences, including religious communities and the internet, have shaped and continue to form individuals’ comprehension of scripture. Employing both quantitative methods (the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study) and qualitative research (historical studies for context), this book provides an unp…
Bible in American Life
There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or inspired by God. At the same time, surveys have revealed gaps in these same Americans' biblical literacy. These discrepancies reveal the complex relationship between American Christians and Holy Writ, a subject that is widely acknowledged but rarely investigated. The Bible in American Life is a sust…
The Reality of Consciousness
This chapter presents the “big picture” approach of this book. It argues that the reality of consciousness is a datum in its own right, a starting point for metaphysical enquiry that sits alongside the data of observation and experiments. This perspective is defended against neuro-fundamentalism (the view that the only way to make progress in explaining consciousness is to do more neuroscience) and methodological naturalism (the view that we shou…
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality
Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally physical in nature. The first half of this book argues that physicalist views cannot account for the evident reality of conscious experience, and hence that physicalism cannot be true. Still, Goff argues that there are big problems with the most well-known arguments against physicalism--Chalmers' zomb…
The New Evangelical Social Engagement
Evangelicals are increasingly turning their attention toward issues such as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. This marks an expansion of the social agenda advanced by the Religious Right over the past few decades. For outsiders to evangelical culture, this contemporary trend complicates simplistic stereotypes. For insiders, it brings contention over what “true” evangelical…
The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America
Blackwell Companion to Religion in America
Ghosts and Sparse Properties
The definitive version can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/ Copyright Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LLC. [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Real Materialism and Other Essays - Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson is very fond of pointing out that the Emperor is not wearing any clothes. He is also very good at doing so. Time and again throughout his career, mapped out by the essays contained in this volume, he has drawn attention to an assumption or a view so familiar that philosophers had forgotten that it was possible to question it, and he has said ‘Hold on, why do we believe that, again?’. Some examples: (i) the assumption, at one time f…
We Have Heard the Joyful Sound
The message that Grace Fuller had awaited for years arrived at her cabin in the San Bernardino mountains. Here, she sought relief from the Southern California heat that aggravated her tuberculosis, for which there was no easy treatment in 1916. Her husband, Charles, had gone to church alone in Los Angeles to hear Paul Rader, the boxer-turned-evangelist. There, Charles converted to fundamental Christianity. Unable to contain his excitement, he inf…
Revivals and Revolution
Thirty years ago Alan Heimert published his monumental study of religion's relationship to the American Revolution.Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolutioncontradicted the conventional wisdom rooted in Vernon Parrington's 1927Main Currents of American Thoughtand implicitly challenged the more recent interpretation put forward by Heimert's own mentor, Perry Miller. Critics responded vigorously, but their reproofs …
Revivals and Revolution
Thirty years ago Alan Heimert published his monumental study of religion's relationship to the American Revolution.Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolutioncontradicted the conventional wisdom rooted in Vernon Parrington's 1927Main Currents of American Thoughtand implicitly challenged the more recent interpretation put forward by Heimert's own mentor, Perry Miller. Critics responded vigorously, but their reproofs …
Panentheism and Panpsychism
Panpsychism has become a highly attractive position in the philosophy of mind. On panpsychism, both the physical and the mental are inseparable and fundamental features of reality. Panentheism has also become immensely popular in the philo-sophy of religion. Panentheism strives for a higher reconciliation of an atheistic pantheism, on which the universe itself is causa sui, and the ontological dualism of necessarily existing, eternal creator and …
Conscious Thought and the Cognitive Fine-Tuning Problem
Cognitive phenomenalism is the view that occurrent thoughts are identical with, or constituted of, cognitive phenomenology. This paper raises a challenge for (standard forms of) this view: the cognitive fine-tuning problem. In broad brushstrokes the difficulty is that, for the cognitive phenomenalist, there is a distinction between three kinds of fact: cognitive phenomenal facts, sensory phenomenal facts, and functional facts. This distinction gi…
Ghosts and Sparse Properties
The definitive version can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/ Copyright Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LLC. [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
We Have Heard the Joyful Sound
The message that Grace Fuller had awaited for years arrived at her cabin in the San Bernardino mountains. Here, she sought relief from the Southern California heat that aggravated her tuberculosis, for which there was no easy treatment in 1916. Her husband, Charles, had gone to church alone in Los Angeles to hear Paul Rader, the boxer-turned-evangelist. There, Charles converted to fundamental Christianity. Unable to contain his excitement, he inf…
Revivals and Revolution
Thirty years ago Alan Heimert published his monumental study of religion's relationship to the American Revolution.Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolutioncontradicted the conventional wisdom rooted in Vernon Parrington's 1927Main Currents of American Thoughtand implicitly challenged the more recent interpretation put forward by Heimert's own mentor, Perry Miller. Critics responded vigorously, but their reproofs …
We Have Heard the Joyful Sound
The message that Grace Fuller had awaited for years arrived at her cabin in the San Bernardino mountains. Here, she sought relief from the Southern California heat that aggravated her tuberculosis, for which there was no easy treatment in 1916. Her husband, Charles, had gone to church alone in Los Angeles to hear Paul Rader, the boxer-turned-evangelist. There, Charles converted to fundamental Christianity. Unable to contain his excitement, he inf…
Real Materialism and Other Essays - Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson is very fond of pointing out that the Emperor is not wearing any clothes. He is also very good at doing so. Time and again throughout his career, mapped out by the essays contained in this volume, he has drawn attention to an assumption or a view so familiar that philosophers had forgotten that it was possible to question it, and he has said ‘Hold on, why do we believe that, again?’. Some examples: (i) the assumption, at one time f…
The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America
Blackwell Companion to Religion in America
Ghosts and Sparse Properties
The definitive version can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/ Copyright Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LLC. [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
The New Evangelical Social Engagement
Evangelicals are increasingly turning their attention toward issues such as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. This marks an expansion of the social agenda advanced by the Religious Right over the past few decades. For outsiders to evangelical culture, this contemporary trend complicates simplistic stereotypes. For insiders, it brings contention over what “true” evangelical…
The Bible in American Life
This book is an interdisciplinary reflection on the ways Americans use the Bible in their personal lives. It considers how other influences, including religious communities and the internet, have shaped and continue to form individuals’ comprehension of scripture. Employing both quantitative methods (the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study) and qualitative research (historical studies for context), this book provides an unp…
Bible in American Life
There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or inspired by God. At the same time, surveys have revealed gaps in these same Americans' biblical literacy. These discrepancies reveal the complex relationship between American Christians and Holy Writ, a subject that is widely acknowledged but rarely investigated. The Bible in American Life is a sust…
The Reality of Consciousness
This chapter presents the “big picture” approach of this book. It argues that the reality of consciousness is a datum in its own right, a starting point for metaphysical enquiry that sits alongside the data of observation and experiments. This perspective is defended against neuro-fundamentalism (the view that the only way to make progress in explaining consciousness is to do more neuroscience) and methodological naturalism (the view that we shou…
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality
Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally physical in nature. The first half of this book argues that physicalist views cannot account for the evident reality of conscious experience, and hence that physicalism cannot be true. Still, Goff argues that there are big problems with the most well-known arguments against physicalism--Chalmers' zomb…
Conscious Thought and the Cognitive Fine-Tuning Problem
Cognitive phenomenalism is the view that occurrent thoughts are identical with, or constituted of, cognitive phenomenology. This paper raises a challenge for (standard forms of) this view: the cognitive fine-tuning problem. In broad brushstrokes the difficulty is that, for the cognitive phenomenalist, there is a distinction between three kinds of fact: cognitive phenomenal facts, sensory phenomenal facts, and functional facts. This distinction gi…
Galileo's Error
"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 …
Panentheism and Panpsychism
Panpsychism has become a highly attractive position in the philosophy of mind. On panpsychism, both the physical and the mental are inseparable and fundamental features of reality. Panentheism has also become immensely popular in the philo-sophy of religion. Panentheism strives for a higher reconciliation of an atheistic pantheism, on which the universe itself is causa sui, and the ontological dualism of necessarily existing, eternal creator and …
Blithering Nonsense’
With the largest number of students in Britain, one of its younger academic institutions celebrates an important milestone
The Integrated Information Theory
Book Review| December 01 2020 The Integrated Information Theory: Important Insights But not a Complete Theory of Consciousness The Feelings of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed, By Christof Koch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. 241 pp. Paper, $19.95. Philip Goff Philip Goff Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this …
Civil Religion Today
It has been a half century since Robert Bellah published “Civil Religion in America,” and in that time much has changed regarding the religious, cultural, social, and political reality of America. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine the usefulness of the concept as Bellah articulated it, analyze the ways in which the idea of civil religion has been and can be amended, and apply its perspective to both re…
Essentialist modal rationalism
It used to be thought that rational coherence and metaphysical possibility went hand in hand. Kripke and Putnam put a spanner in the works by proposing examples of propositions which seem to violate this principle. I will propose a nuanced form of modal rationalism consistent with the Kripke/Putnam cases. The rough idea is that rational coherence entails possibility when you grasp the essential nature of what you’re conceiving of
University of Portsmouth Academic Dress
The University of Portsmouth has its origins in the Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art (1870), the Portsmouth Municipal Technical Institute (1894) and Portsmouth Municipal College (1908), which replaced the earlier Institute. The College also took under its wing the College of Art, Portsmouth Day Training College for teachers and a public library.This article examines the development of academic dress at the University of Portsmouth
The Academic Dress of Doctors of Philosophy at the University of London
The introduction at the University of London of the Doctor of Philosophy degree led to the need for appropriate academic costume. The Senate was formally responsible for regulating the academic dress of the University, but Convocation traditionally took the lead in the matter, and prepared reports for consideration by the Senate. Accordingly, the Establishment and General Purposes Committee of the Senate wrote to the Standing Committee of Convoca…
Capuciis Furruratis cum Serico Duplicatis
Beginning in the fifteenth century, silk linings were introduced into the academic hoods of the senior degrees for use during the summer (officially between Easter and All Saints) as a cooler alternative to the expensive fur. Bachelors (other than those in Divinity and Canon Law) were still required to line their hoods with cheap fur throughout the year. Although the 1443 foundation statutes of All Souls College, Oxford, require graduate fellows …
The Development of the Burgon Society Hoods
The [s2] was straightforward, but the [f7] had a more dramatic inception. Both are appropriate hoods for Fellows of the Burgon Society, as recounted in this Primary Source article
A Tribute to Nicholas Groves
A tribute on the death of Nicholas Groves, a founder of the Burgon Society, scholar of academic dress, and frequent contributor to Transactions of the Burgon Society
Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse
Our best current science seems to suggest the laws of physics and the initial conditions of our universe are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. A significant number of scientists and philosophers believe that the fine-tuning is evidence for the multiverse hypothesis. This paper will focus on a much-discussed objection to the inference from the fine-tuning to the multiverse: the charge that this line of reasoning commits the inverse gambler’s…
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