David Chalmers

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Full Name	David Chalmers
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1966(1966-04-20)
Age	58
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Aries

David Chalmers Biography

David Chalmers is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on April 20, 1966 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Australian philosopher, best known for his work in his philosophy on language as well as the mind.

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Chalmers was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1966 and then grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. As a child, he experienced synesthesia. He also performed exceptionally in maths and secured a bronze medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

David John Chalmers (/ˈ tʃ æ l m ər z / ; born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specialising in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is also a University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, and a Director of the Centre for Mind, Brain and Consciousness (along with Ned Block) at New York University. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

He was raised and born in Sydney.

David Chalmers Net Worth

David Chalmers is one of the richest Philosopher from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Chalmers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He earned his bachelor’s qualification from the department of Mathematics as well as Computer Science at Adelaide’s University of Adelaide.

He was elected an Fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2013.

In support of this, Chalmers is famous for his commitment to the logical (though, importantly, not natural) possibility of philosophical zombies. These zombies, unlike the zombie of popular fiction, are complete physical duplicates of human beings, lacking only qualitative experience. Chalmers argues that since such zombies are conceivable to us, they must therefore be logically possible. Since they are logically possible, then qualia and sentience are not fully explained by physical properties alone; the facts about them are further facts. Instead, Chalmers argues that consciousness is a fundamental property ontologically autonomous of any known (or even possible) physical properties, and that there may be lawlike rules which he terms “psychophysical laws” that determine which physical systems are associated with which types of qualia. He further speculates that all information-bearing systems may be conscious, leading him to entertain the possibility of conscious thermostats and a qualified panpsychism he calls panprotopsychism. Chalmers maintains a formal agnosticism on the issue, even conceding that the viability of panpsychism places him at odds with the majority of his contemporaries. According to Chalmers, his arguments are similar to a line of thought that goes back to Leibniz’s 1714 “mill” argument; the first substantial use of philosophical “zombie” terminology may be Robert Kirk’s 1974 “Zombies vs. Materialists”.

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Having established his name, Chalmers received his first professorship the following year, at UC Santa Cruz, from August 1995 to December 1998. In 1996, while teaching there, he published the widely cited book The Conscious Mind. Chalmers was subsequently appointed Professor of Philosophy (1999–2004) and, later, Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies (2002–2004) at the University of Arizona, sponsor of the conference that had first brought him to prominence. In 2004, Chalmers returned to Australia, encouraged by an ARC Federation Fellowship, becoming Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. Chalmers accepted a part-time professorship at New York University in 2009, and then a full-time professorship at the same university in 2014.

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David Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. David Chalmers celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.

In 2013, Chalmers was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is an editor on topics in the philosophy of mind for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In May 2018, it was announced that he would serve on the jury for the Berggruen Prize.

Top Facts about David Chalmers

1. David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist
2. He is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University.
3. He is best known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness
4. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford
5. He received his PhD in philosophy and cognitive science from Indiana University Bloomington.
6. He is an editor on topics in the philosophy of mind for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
7. He proposes a two dimensionalism theory of reference about how words secure their referents
8. He argued for an “explanatory gap” from the objective to the subjective and criticized physicalist explanations
9. He was featured in the 2012 documentary film The Singularity
10. He characterizes his view as naturalistic dualism
11. He is a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
12. He is in a relationship with Claudia Passos Ferreira
13. He has no religious or spiritual views
14. He is the lead singer of the Zombie Blues band
15. He proposed that computers are forming a form of “exo-cortex” where part of human cognition is outsourced to corporations

What is consciousness according to David Chalmers?

In the same way, Chalmers suggested that consciousness is the key to our sense of meaning. “What gives life even the potential for meaning in the first place is, I guess, consciousness. It takes somehow all this activity in the brain or body and turns it into meaning, like water into wine.”

What kind of philosopher is David Chalmers?

Philosophy of mind Chalmers characterizes his view as “ naturalistic dualism “: naturalistic because he believes mental states supervene “naturally” on physical systems (such as brains); dualist because he believes mental states are ontologically distinct from and not reducible to physical systems.

What is Chalmers view of substance dualism?

Property Dualism/Consciousness/Chalmers: from the lack of a logical supervenience of consciousness from the physical follows that conscious experiences imply the properties of an individual that are not implied by the physical properties of that individual. It is not about a separate “substance”.

Is Chalmers a functionalist?

It is important to be clear that Chalmers is not endorsing a functionalist account of consciousness. He has rejected physicalism and all physicalist theories and is thinking of these computations as involving fundamental non- physical phenomenal properties.

What according to Chalmers is the fundamental fact of human existence?

Consciousness is a fundamental fact of human existence and universal. Our list of things that are fundamental (e.g., mass, space, time) need to expand to include consciousness. Every system has some degree of consciousness (i.e., panpsychism is real). Wherever there is information processing, there is consciousness.