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David John Chalmers (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː l m ər z /; born 20 April 1966) [1] is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory was published in 1996, and is the first book written by David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher specialising in philosophy of mind. Although the book has been greatly influential , Chalmers maintains that it is "far from perfect", as most of it was written as part of his PhD dissertation ...
Chalmers on stage for an Alan Turing Year event at De La Salle University, Manila, 27 March 2012. The terms "hard problem" and "easy problems" were coined by the philosopher David Chalmers in a 1994 talk given at The Science of Consciousness conference held in Tucson, Arizona. [4]
This book is an exploration into technology philosophy, or as Chalmers refers to it: Technophilosophy [1]. Chalmers delves into the Metaphysics and Epistemology, and Ethics of reality, incorporating the works of Descartes' Evil Demon [2], and Bostrom's Simulation Hypothesis [3], to try and answer some new, and some fundamental questions of reality.
The Extended Mind" by Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998) [4] is the paper that originally stated the EMT. Clark and Chalmers present the idea of active externalism (not to be confused with semantic externalism), in which objects within the environment function as a part of the mind. They argue that the separation between the mind, the body ...
Philosopher David Chalmers, famous for the idea of the hard problem of consciousness, has expressed some enthusiasm about IIT. According to Chalmers, IIT is a development in the right direction, whether or not it is correct. [24] Max Tegmark has tried to address the problem of the computational complexity behind the calculations. According to ...
The general editors are its founders, David Bourget and David Chalmers. [2] PhilPapers receives financial support from other organizations, including a substantial grant in early 2009 from the Joint Information Systems Committee in the United Kingdom. [3] The archive is praised for its comprehensiveness and organization, [4] and for its regular ...
Philosophical zombies are associated with David Chalmers, but it was philosopher Robert Kirk who first used the term "zombie" in this context, in 1974. Before that, Keith Campbell made a similar argument in his 1970 book Body and Mind, using the term "imitation man". [7]