david chalmers
david chalmers
david chalmers
i am a philosopher at the australian national university.
officially i am professor of philosophy, director of the centre for consciousness,
and an arc federation fellow. i work in the philosophy of mind and in related areas of
philosophy and cognitive science. i am especially interested in
consciousness, but am also interested in philosophical issues about
meaning and possibility, in the foundations of cognitive science and
of physics, and a bunch of other things.
this site includes quite a bit of my own work (e.g. papers on consciousness and papers on meaning and modality), and it also includes a number
of resources i've put together on topics related to consciousness and/or
philosophy: e.g., annotated bibliographies, directories of online papers,
and some philosophical diversions. there is also a photo gallery. a complete
master
index to this site's contents is available.
what's new:
weblog: fragments of consciousness.
new papers: ontological anti-realism, propositions and attitude ascriptions: a fregean account, ramsey + moore = god.
my work
complete list of papers
papers on consciousness
papers
on meaning and modality
papers
on ai and computation
miscellaneous
bits and pieces
online
discussions of my work
responses
to articles on my work
resources
philosophy
of mind: a bibliography
consciousness
in science: a bibliography
online
papers on consciousness
people
with online papers in philosophy
web
resources
guide
to the philosophy of mind
philosophical
humor
zombies
on the web
background
my undergraduate degree was in mathematics and computer science at
the university of adelaide in australia. i was a graduate student in
mathematics for a while at the university of oxford, but then i
switched to indiana university, where i obtained a ph.d. in 1993 in
philosophy and cognitive science, working in doug hofstadter's center for research on concepts
and cognition. i spent 1993-95 as a mcdonnell fellow in philosophy, neuroscience,
and psychology at washington university in st. louis, and 1995-98 in the department of
philosophy at uc santa cruz. from 1999-2004 i was in the
department of philosophy and the
center for consciousness studies at
the university of arizona. i moved to anu in august 2004.
a photo
gallery is here.
activities
i seem to spend a lot of time organizing things (this is a
good work-avoidance strategy). i'm strongly committed to getting an
interdisciplinary science of consciousness off the ground. i was one of
the founders of the association for the scientific study
of consciousness (which has now had ten very successful
conferences), and i'm associate editor of psyche, an
interdisciplinary e-journal on consciousness. i've helped organize the
biannual tucson
conferences on consciousness. i also edit the philosophy of mind
series at oxford university press, and am philosophy of mind editor
for the stanford
encyclopedia of philosophy. locally, i am
director of the centre for consciousness
at anu.
research
when i have time and run out of excuses, i sometimes do some real work.
i've written one book
(below) and have been closely involved with another.
i've written articles on consciousness,
metaphysics and meaning,
ai and computation,
and various other topics in philosophy and cognitive science (see top of page). consciousness
is my first love, and it's what i always come back to, but one of the nice
things about being a philosopher is that one is allowed to be interested
in all sorts of things. (if you get interested in x, you just say "i'm
working on the philosophy of x"). i do a lot of fairly technical philosophy
(metaphysics, philosophy of language) as well as being closely involved
with work in science - originally ai and physics, but lately more in neuroscience
and psychology. at the
moment, i am working on a book on consciousness and on a book (or a series of
books) concerning the connections between reason, meaning,
and possibility.
the
conscious mind:
in
search of a fundamental theory
my book on consciousness was published in april 1996, with oxford university
press. its web page has a few bits and pieces, such as the table
of contents, the introduction,
some reviews,
and other information.
explaining
consciousness:
the hard problem
this collection (edited by jonathan shear) was published
in 1997 by mit press. it has a keynote
article by me, 26 responses from all sorts of perspectives, and my
response
to all these in turn. see its web page for contents.
philosophy
of mind:
classical
and contemporary readings
this is an anthology of readings in the philosophy of mind, edited by me, and
published by oxford university press in august 2002. its web page has the
table of contents and an ever growing list of typos.
david chalmers, philosophy program, rsss, canberra act 0200, australia.
e-mail: chalmers at anu dot edu dot au
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