4 Quotes & Sayings By David Chalmers

David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind and a cognitive scientist at New York University. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Australia, and was born in Sydney, Australia. He graduated from the University of New South Wales with a B.Sc. degree in Psychology Read more

In 1984 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University for his thesis on the nature of consciousness, "The Conscious Mind". In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne for his contributions to philosophy and cognitive science Dr.

Chalmers has published over one hundred papers on philosophy of mind and cognitive science, including "Miracles: The Human Brain, God, and the Afterlife"; "Constructing a World View: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy"; "What is This Thing Called Science?"; "No More Singulars: A Pluralist Manifesto"; "The Singularity Hypothesis"; "Consciousness: The Philosophical Problems"; and most recently, "The Comprehensible Universe." He has lectured internationally as well as in Australia, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia and Spain.

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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. David Chalmers
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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. David Chalmers
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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! David Chalmers