Dr. Walter Veit is an award-winning philosopher, author, and lecturer. He has over 100 academic publications as well as several books on the nature of consciousness, evolutionary theory, and how we can understand what goes on in the minds of other animals. He has travelled all over the world to speak about his research, meeting the Dalai Lama in India, bomb-sniffing Rats in Tanzania, mischievous corvids in Cambridge, and self-aware cleaner fish in Japan.
Books and Praise
“Walter Veit is a remarkably inventive and industrious philosopher who is working—with astonishing productivity—in the topic areas I have been exploring in recent years, and finding novel insights again and again.” – Daniel C. Dennett, bestselling author of Consciousness Explained and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
“The a priori position that human consciousness differs from that in other animals has become hard to defend. In an eye-opening account, Walter Veit explains why. As a true philosopher, he delves into both the richness and ambiguity of the concept of consciousness.” – Frans de Waal, NYT bestselling author of Chimpanzee Politics and Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
“Walter Veit argues for a more thoroughly Darwinian approach to understanding how consciousness has come into existence, and in which beings it is to be found. By shifting the focus away from human consciousness, he helps us to understand the diversity of forms of consciousness that exist in other animals.” – Peter Singer, the “most influential living philosopher” and bestselling author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save
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Walter Veit 