Who is David Chalmers?
David Chalmers is a philosopher at the University of Arizona and the
Associate Director of the
Center for Consciousness Studies.
His main work is in the philosophy of mind and in the field of Cognitive
Sciences. He is however most famous for his work on the philosophy of
consciousness. He has also done work in the related fields of artificial
intelligence and computation, specifically in the foundations of Cognitive
Sciences. David Chalmers switched his field from Computer Science to
Philosophy. His most outstanding contribution is recognizing the "hard
problems" of consciousness. The "hard problems" lie at the heart of the
study of consciousness and represent one of the last "intractable" problems
of Science. David Chalmers is an Aussie but has now settled in the United
States. His Book "The
Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory"
is a ground breaking work in
consciousness studies. David Chalmers favors a non-reductionist
approach to the study of consciousness. He is one of the first persons who
directly addressed the question of the
mystery
of consciousness.
About this site
As it would be
evident by now, David Chalmers is one of my favorite living Philosophers.
This website is the first website about David Chalmers on the Internet,
apart from his own website of course.
[David Chalmers]
"I think therefore I am."
Rene Descartes