[Peter] Goldie’s philosophising arose from his own experience and out of novels he loved, especially by Joseph Conrad and Robert Musil. He was determined to make sense of topics – grief, jealousy, the nature of emotion in general, artistic response – which, as he said, philosophers tend to “over-intellectualise”, and thus distort. Without ever abandoning philosophical rigour, he excelled at revealing the richness of human life from the inside.