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Consciousness and Metaphilosophy: A conversation with philosopher Walter Veit

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Feb 10, 2026
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I spoke with philosopher Walter Veit about his views on naturalistic philosophy, metaphysics, and his evolutionary approach to understanding consciousness. Walter is an award winning philosopher, having written over a hundred academic papers and three books. He also has a great Substack Publication!

If you found the conversation interesting, check out his books and Walter’s related articles:

Walter Veit
Why Consciousness Science Needs Darwin
Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special case within the animal kingdom. The need for a Darwinian bottom-up approach that reconstructs these simple origins and then successively builds more comple…
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4 months ago · 11 likes · 11 comments · Walter Veit
Walter Veit
Is Analytic Metaphysics a Counter-Enlightenment Project?
What may strike some of my readers, most of whom have never studied philosophy, as a bold assertion is in fact a widely shared view among philosophers who regard much of traditional analytic metaphysics as a…
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3 months ago · 24 likes · 16 comments · Walter Veit
Walter Veit
The End of Analytic Philosophy
A few years ago, while I was pursuing my PhD at the University of Sydney, the philosopher Liam Kofi Bright wrote a provocative blog post titled The End of Analytic Philosophy. It painted a bleak and rather depressing picture of the field and its capacity to make progress…
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3 months ago · 95 likes · 35 comments · Walter Veit
Walter Veit
What's the point of philosophy?
Yesterday, the philosopher Richard Yetter Chappell has offered a thoughtful reply (see here) to my melancholic reflections on panpsychism, materialism, and the state of philosophy. Unlike me, Dan Dennett, or—I suspect—most scientists studying the brain, Richard maintains that science is…
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3 months ago · 12 likes · 6 comments · Walter Veit

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