Falk, Dan. (2023) 'Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?' Scientific American (an article focusing on our first workshop)
Andrei A. Buckareff
Buckareff, Andrei. Forthcoming. "Should Panpsychists be Supernaturalists?" Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion. (forthcoming)
Buckareff, Andrei and Hawkins, Jessica. 2023. "Emergent Mental Properties are Not Just Double-Preventers." Synthese, 202 (Article 53), 1-22.
Buckareff, Andrei. 2023. "Pantheism, Omnisubjectivity, and the Feeling of Temporal Passage." Religions, 14(6), 758-772.
Philip Goff
Books
Goff, Philip. 2023. Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Articles
Goff, Philip. ‘Is fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?’ Synthese, Forthcoming.
Goff, Philip. The case for panpsychism,’ P. S. Satsangi, A. M. Horatschek & A. Srivastav (Eds.) Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives, Springer Verlag (2024)
Goff, Philip. ‘How exactly does panpsychism explain consciousness?’ Journal of Consciousness Studies 31, 3-4, 56-82 (2024).
'God and Cosmic Purpose: A Philosophical Reflection on Bishop and Perszyk's God, Purpose and Reality, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 96: 3, 241- 246 (2024).
Goff, Philip. ‘Quantum mechanics and the consciousness constraint,’ in S. Gau (Ed.) Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, Oxford University Press (2023).
Goff, Philip. ‘Should panpsychists be Christians?’ Religious Studies (2023).
Book reviews
Goff, Philip. 'Review of Tim Mulgan’s Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropic Purposivism', International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion (2022)
Newspaper/Magazine articles
Goff, Philip. ‘A God of limited power,’ Philosophy Now, December 2024/January 2025.
Goff, Philip. ‘The mistake at the heart of the multiverse,’ Institute of Arts and Ideas, December 2024.
Goff, Philip. ‘My leap across the chasm,’ Aeon Magazine, October 2024.
Goff, Philip. ‘Cosmic Purpose: A Discussion with Philip Goff’ Interview on the American Philosophical Association Substack, August 2024 (There were also two articles responding to Goff's work in November 2024 and December 2024 in the blog of the American Philosophical Association, leading up to the panel on my work at their conference in New York University, January 2025).
Goff, Philip.‘The mystery of consciousness is deeper than we thought,’ Scientific American, July 2024.
Goff, Philip.‘The mystery of consciousness show there may a limit to what science alone can achieve,’ The Conversation, March 2024.
Goff, Philip. ‘Meditation can reveal a sacred reality,’ Wall Street Journal, November 2023.
Goff, Philip. 'Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry,' Scientific American, November 2023.
Goff, Philip. ‘Why our universe can have cosmic purpose without God,’ Aeon, November 2023.
Goff, Philip. ‘Many physicists assume we live in a multiverse, but their basic maths may be wrong,’ The Conversation, November 2023.
Goff, Philip. ‘Consciousness: Why a leading theory has been branded ‘pseudoscience,’ The Conversation, September 2023.
Goff, Philip. ‘ChatGPT can’t think – Consciousness is something entirely different to today’s AI.’ The Conversation, May 2023.
Presentations:
Andrei A. Buckareff
"The Boundary Problem: Why Constitutive Panpsychists Should Endorse a Powerful Qualities Theory of Properties," The 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, August University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 21-25 August 2023
"Are Emergent Mental Properties Just Double-Preventers?," Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 21-24 February 2024
"Quidditism and the Boundary Problem for Russellian Constitutive Panpsychism" (with Yanssel Garcia), Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, 18-21 June 2024, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (moved online owing to law faculty strike)
Philip Goff
Public talks
September 2025 I spent one at a half days visiting Saint Edward’s School in Oxford, talking to all their year groups about the project themes of panpsychism and panentheism, and giving a talk in the evening for students and teachers. Some children from other schools in the area were also included.
June 2025 Talk to 9–10-year-old school for interfaith week at St. Margaret’s School, Durham.
June 2025 Public discussion on panpsychism and panentheism with Iain McGilchrist at the Unherd club in London.
May 2025 I was interviewed on panpsychism for a class on a Science and Religion module at the University of Melbourne.
April 2025 I discussed panpsychism as was a panel member in a public discussion on ‘AI, Culture, and Consciousness,’ Calvin University.
April 2025 ‘From atoms to awareness,’ I was in conversation on panpsychism with Helen Beebee at an event at the Oxford Literary Festival.
March 2025 I gave an talk on panpsychism in a series aimed at inspiring young people are Exeter College.
February 2025 ‘This house regrets the death of God,’ I argued for the limited powers version of pantheism at a public debate at Oxford Union, together with Sean Carroll and Peter Atkinson.
November 2024 ‘Beyond God and Atheism.’ In this project-sponsored event, I defended pan(en)theism as a middle ground between traditional theism and traditional atheism. These other options were defended by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, high-profile atheist YouTuber Alex O’Connor, and writer and broadcaster Liz Oldfield, at Royal Institution Theatre in London, 1,050,000.
November 2024 I spoke about panpsychism at The Lady Eleanor Holles School.
November 2024 I spoke about panpsychism and panentheism to the Anglican clergy of Durham City and the surrounding area.
October 2024 I gave a TEDx New England talk at Groton Hill Music Centre, near Boston, US, 140,000 views.
June 2024 I spoke at a plenary panel on ‘State of Art Approaches to Consciousness,’ at the annual meeting of the Intensive Care Society.
May 2024 I was due to give three talks/panel sessions at the Nordic Festival for Philosophy and Science, but had to cancel at the last minute due to a head injury.
April 2024 Talk on ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’ at Oxford Literary Festival.
April 2024 Talk on ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’ at Hexham Book Festival.
February 2024 I set the question for the ‘Popper Prize,’ an essay competition for year ten school children, and assessed submissions together with my PhD student Gaurav Kudtarkar. I announced the winners via Zoom.
February 2024 I spoke on ‘The Mystery of Psycho-Physical Harmony,’ at the ‘Mind and Brain’ conference of 200 sixth formers at Cheney school, Oxford.
November 22nd 2023 Talk on ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’ at Toppings & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh.
November 20th 2023 Book launch for ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’ at Collected Bookshop, Durham.
November 10th 2023 Book launch for ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’ with Sir Philip Pullman at Blackwells Bookshop, Oxford.
November 9th 2023 Appeared on Panel with Rowan Williams at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford to mark the occasion of Sir Philip Pullman receiving the Bodley Medal
September 2023 I spoke at the ‘How the Light Gets in’ ideas festival in London.
September 2023 I debated the physicist Sean Carroll on ‘Is Consciousness Fundamental?’ at Marist College.
May 2023 I participated in a panel at an AI Summit with leaders in the tech industry, hosted by Sana Labs
March 2023 I gave a talk on consciousness as panpsychism at Esther 6th Form College, Surrey, UK
March 2023 I spoke on a panel on the nature of consciousness, Oxford Psychedelic Society
Research Talks
July 2025 ‘Anti-Physicalism and Quantum Mechanics,’ Summer School on Panpsychism, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb.
May 2025 ‘Fine-tuning and teleology,’ I was in conversation with philosopher of physics Helen Meskhidze about cosmological fine-tuning, as part of a series of events at the Central for Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich.
May 2025 ‘How to be a heretic,’ Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University.
April 2025 ‘Christianity and a God of limited power,’ Notre Dame University.
April 2025 ‘Combining dualism with Everettianism about the physical world,’ AI, Culture, and Consciousness Conference, Calvin University.
April 2025 ‘Faith, trust, and the spiritual but not religious,’ Beliefless Spirituality Workshop, hosted by the Beliefless Spirituality Templeton project, Atlanta, US.
March 2025 ‘Is consciousness everywhere?’ Sheffield University Philosophy Society.
March 2025 ‘Quantum mechanics and consciousness,’ Computer Science, Durham University.
February 2025 ‘Euan Squires on Quantum mechanics,’ Quantum Cosmopsychism and Quantum Hylomorphism, online workshop organised by William Simpson (Durham University).
February 2025 ‘Can we explain fine-tuning in terms of a multiverse?’ Dark Energy, Villa Palazzola, Rome.
December 2024 ‘Combining mind-body dualism with Everettianism about the physical world,’ Quantum, Light, and Matter group in the Physics department at Durham University.
November 2024 ‘Is consciousness required for thought?’ Symposium on the Philosophy of Computing, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
November 2024 ‘A panpsychism interpretation of quantum mechanics,’ Panpsychism and Panentheism: A Match Made in Heaven? Durham University.
October 2024 ‘A panpsychist interpretation of quantum mechanics,’ The Agora Conference on Panpsychism, The Stiguna Foundation, Sweden.
June 2024 ‘A conceivability argument for atheism,’ I was due to give a talk at the Transparency, Indexicality, and Consciousness conference at the Collège de France, Paris, organised by the Collège de France and the University of Fribourg, but had to cancel at the last minute due to a head injury.
June 2024 ‘Is fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?’ I was due to give a talk at The Philosophy of Cosmology at the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics at Oxford University, but had to cancel at the last minute due to a head injury.
May 2024 ‘The mystery of psycho-physical harmony,’ The Metaphysics of Middle-Sized Objects (interdisciplinary conference on hylomorphism), Oxford University.
April 2024 ‘The case for fundamental teleology,’ Beyond (interdisciplinary conference organised by the physicist Paul Davies), Arizona State University.
April 2024 ‘The mystery of psycho-physical harmony,’ Panpsychism and its History, Cornell University.
March 2024 ‘A conceivability argument for atheism,’ Mind, Brain, and Consciousness (conference in honour of Barry Dainton), Liverpool University.
March 2024 ‘A conceivability argument for atheism,’ an invited talk at the philosophy department of Reading University.
February 2024 ‘The mystery of psycho-physical harmony,’ The Elephant in the Room: Investigating Consciousness Beyond Reduction, University of Padova.
October 2023 I spoke at a symposium on dualism, Westminster Cathedral.
September 2023 I spoke at the ‘Consciousness as Fundamental’ conference, Marist College
July 2023 I participated in an AI panel at a Wisdom Symposium, hosted by the Centre for the Study of World Religion, Harvard University.
June 2023 ‘The mystery of psycho-physical harmony,’ Panpsychism: Problems and Prospects, Cambridge University.
June 2023 ‘Christianity and a God of Limited Power,’ talk for the Butler Society, Oxford University.
April 2023 ‘The mystery of psycho-physical harmony,’ Consciousness: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Oxford University.
January 2023 I debated Keith Frankish on the nature of consciousness, University of Helsinki