David Chalmers b. 1966
David Chalmers (born 1966) is an Australian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher, professor at New York University and the Australian National University, and a leading voice in the contemporary philosophy of mind. His The Conscious Mind argued that physicalist accounts of consciousness face a hard problem that resists any reduction to functional or computational properties, and his later work has explored property dualism, panpsychism, and the so-called extended mind. Reality+ extended these concerns to virtual reality, defending the philosophical thesis that virtual worlds are genuinely real and that simulation hypotheses are genuinely live possibilities for our own world.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Australian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“There is something it is like to be a conscious organism, and that fact is the hard problem of consciousness.”
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“We may need to revise our basic picture of reality to make room for consciousness.”
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“The easy problems of consciousness are explanations of cognitive functions; the hard problem is the explanation of experience itself.”
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“Virtual realities are genuine realities.”
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“Property dualism is the thesis that the world contains physical properties and irreducible phenomenal properties.”
Frequently asked about David Chalmers
- When was David Chalmers born?
- David Chalmers was born in 1966.
- Where was David Chalmers from?
- David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is David Chalmers associated with?
- David Chalmers is associated with Analytic Philosophy.
- What is David Chalmers known for?
- David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher, professor at New York University and the Australian National University, and a leading voice in the contemporary philosophy of mind.
- How many quotes are attributed to David Chalmers?
- There are 12 attributed quotations from David Chalmers in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.