In Consciousness and Fundamental Reality Philip Goff argues that physicalist views cannot
account for the evident reality of conscious experience and hence that physicalism cannot be
true. He argues that there are big problems with the most well-known arguments against
physicalism and proposes significant modifications. He then explores and defends a theory of
fundamental reality known as 'Russellian monism.' Russell argued that physics for all its
virtues gives us a radically incomplete picture of the world and tells us only about the
extrinsic mathematical features of material entities and not how they are in and of
themselves. Following Russell Goff's version of Russellian monism argues that it is this
hidden intrinsic nature of matter that explains human and animal consciousness.
