Philosopher
David Chalmers
Overview
David John Chalmers (; born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist, specializing in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University (NYU), as well as co-director of NYU's Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness (along with Ned Block). In 2006, he was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2013, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Chalmers is best known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness, and for popularizing the philosophical zombie thought experiment.
Chalmers and David Bourget co-founded PhilPapers; a database of journal articles for philosophers.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed David Chalmers
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Sam Harris
- Saul Kripke
- Keith Frankish
- Philip Goff (philosopher)
- Joseph Levine (philosopher)
- Derk Pereboom
Ideas David Chalmers discusses
- Naming and Necessity
- Christof Koch
- Cognition
- Ned Block
- Natural kind
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophy
- John Searle
- Integrated circuit
- Sentience
- Mind–body dualism
- Mathematics
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- The Guardian
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Qualia
- Synesthesia
- Direct reference theory
- Property dualism
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Linguistics
- PhilPapers
- Physicalism
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.