Project Related Publications and Presentations
Publications:
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. ‘Cosmic Purpose: A Discussion with Philip Goff’ Interview on the American Philosophical Association Substack, August 2024.
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
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
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