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Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith, Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness. Glasgow: William Collins (2020), 288 pp., $24.99 (hardcover; also available in paperback, nook, and audiobook formats).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2022

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Philosophy of Science , First View , pp. 1 - 3
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Browning, Heather, and Veit, Walter. 2021. “Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: Essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul.” Biology & Philosophy 36 (5):1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09781-7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ginsburg, Simona, and Jablonka, Eva. 2019. The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness. Cambridge: MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2016. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Google Scholar
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2020. Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness. Glasgow: William Collins.Google Scholar
Griffin, Donald R. 1976. The Question of Animal Awareness. New York: Rockefeller University Press.Google Scholar

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Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith, Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness. Glasgow: William Collins (2020), 288 pp., $24.99 (hardcover; also available in paperback, nook, and audiobook formats).
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