I see a few references to Greater Darkvision, such as on page 465 and under the Darkness spell description on page 327. Is it actually defined anywhere? And is there a way for a PC to gain this ability other than via Goggles of Night?
You're already looking in the right place. That's the definition, on page 465, under the heading Darkvision and Greater Darkvision. Darkvision with the ability to see through magical darkness that stops normal Darkvision is it.
Darkvision and greater Darkvision
A creature with darkvision or greater darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. Some forms of magical darkness, such as a 4th-level darkness spell, block normal darkvision. A creature with greater darkvision, however, can see through even these forms of magical darkness.
I don't think there is anyway for PCs to have Greater Darkvision except Major Goggles of the Night (level 18), it was mostly an NPC ability in PF1, so I'm not surprised.
Cool, thanks folks!
This seems like mostly just a rename for the 'see in darkness' ability. It will likely be on the same kinds of creatures.
For now, there will be few ways to get it. However, I am sure that more spells and race feats will come in the future (I know tieflings could get it in PF1 with racial feats, and it would not surprise me if that comes up again given the heavy focus on those feats now).
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The Shadowdancer Archetype from APG gain the Greater Darkvision ability when taking the Shadowdancer Dedication Feat (8th level at the earliest)
It's also not as big a deal now because even Deeper Darkness just makes you concealed. And past a certain point you can counteract it with a cantrip. You don't get the sort of 5e Devil's Sight permanent advantage thing.
Dwarf racial feat at 5th lvl gives greatet darkvision at the cost of being unable to cast/use items that have the darkness tag