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Peter Godfrey-Smith
Professor of Philosophy
Harvard University
I grew up in Sydney, Australia. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Sydney, and I have a PhD in philosophy from UC San Diego. I taught at Stanford University between 1991 and 2002, and then combined a half-time post at the Australian National University (RSSS) and a visiting position at Harvard for a few years. Since 2006 I have been full-time at Harvard.
My main research interests are in the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind. I also work on pragmatism (especially John Dewey), general philosophy of science, and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology. I have written two books, Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge, 1996) and Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Chicago, 2003). My current projects include a book on natural selection (which will appear with Oxford in 2009) and a book on Dewey.
• A full CV (pdf) is here.
• An html list of publications is here.
• An article from the Harvard Gazette.
