Arnold Zuboff is a philosopher of personal identity, consciousness, and probability, best known for championing “universalism” — the radical view that all conscious experience belongs to a single subject, and that every conscious being is, in the deepest sense, you.
An Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at University College London, Zuboff lectured at UCL from 1974 until his retirement in 2011. He is also the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem, a landmark puzzle in the philosophy of probability. His work spans personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
His 2025 book Finding Myself: Beyond the False Boundaries of Personal Identity — published by the Philosophy Documentation Center with a foreword by Thomas Nagel — is the culmination of decades of philosophical reflection on the nature of self, consciousness, and what it means to be a person.
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