Peter Godfrey-Smith is a distinguished professor of history and the philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of five books, including the bestselling Other Minds, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize and Natural Selection, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award for an outstanding work on the philosophy of science.
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A BBC Science Focus Book
of the Month ‘This gentle approach won a wide readership for
Godfrey-Smith’s last book and deserves to do the same for this. But
perhaps his exploratory style is well-suited, not just to the
general reader, but to the problem of consciousness itself’ Times
Literary Supplement ‘Enthralling … A rather winning combination of
not once ever making readers feel as if they are being lectured to;
rather, it is the sensation of joining a wise, ever-patient friend
on a time-traveling tour of the cognitive experiences of animals …
Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s
essential link to the animal world’ Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York
Times ‘A profound scientific drama, in which the lives of quite
un-human creatures illuminate deep mysteries about the nature of
sentience, and what it means to possess a mind … In Metazoa, the
scuba-diving historian and philosopher of science tackles these
questions with eloquent boldness … As in Other Minds, Mr
Godfrey-Smith recounts close encounters with marine fauna, gleaned
from years of diving off the Australian coast. These have an
electric immediacy … Evocative [and] gripping’ Barbara Kiser, Wall
Street Journal ‘Peter Godfrey-Smith's new book Metazoa is, like his
last one, not only deeply interesting but beautifully written.
Also, it finally taught me how to pronounce "cnidarian" properly’
Philip Ball ‘Peter Godfrey-Smith writes and thinks like no one else
that I know of. He’s well immersed in the science of life, a
deep-diver into the philosophical implications of the factual world
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and a writer so skillful he can give a reader chills. Metazoa is
his deepest dive to date on what life is’ Carl Safina, author of
Becoming Wild
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