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On September 25th at 2 pm Eastern ISCID was pleased to host a live moderated chat event with David Chalmers. You can view the transcript by clicking here.

David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. He does work in the philosophy of mind, as well as related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He is especially interested in consciousness, but also interested in artificial intelligence and computation, in philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, in the foundations of cognitive science and of physics, and a bunch of other things.

Chalmers received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He was a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Oxford, but then transferred to Indiana University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1993 in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, working in the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He spent two years as a McDonnell Fellow in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, and three or four years in the Department of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. He moved to Arizona, and his current position at the University of Arizona, at the start of 1999.

Chalmers is currently working on a book concerning the connections between reason, meaning, and possibility, tentatively entitled On What Might Be.

Links

David Chalmers Home Page
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Related Books

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David Chalmers
Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem by David Chalmers
Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings by David Chalmers