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  Book review of David Chalmers
Chalmers contends that the mind is more than just conscious experience, and by this he probably means that there is more in the brain than just consciousness ("mind" is an ambigous term, and some probably use it interchangeably with "consciousness", in which case Chalmers' statement would be a contradiction in terms).
Chalmers does not rule out "monism",t he theory that there is only one substance; he only rules out that the one substance of this world is matter as we know it with the properties we currently know.
Chalmers' arguments are adorned with lots of subtleties for philosophers, but Chalmers is certainly aware that those philosophical subtleties tend to annoy readers from other disciplines (and tend to age badly).
www.thymos.com /mind/chalmers.html   (2333 words)

  
 UANews.org | Regents' Professor David Chalmers Preeminent Philosopher in Consciousness Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
At the relatively youthful age of 37, Chalmers has carved out a niche for himself as the preeminent philosopher in the emerging field of consciousness studies.
That was the year several UA faculty members, led by Stuart Hameroff and Alfred Kaszniak, organized a conference that became the landmark event for consciousness studies, where he spoke about the "hard problems" that the study of consciousness raises.
Chalmers also directs the Center for Consciousness Studies at the UA, an interdisciplinary group that draws faculty from cognitive sciences, neuroscience, psychology and other social sciences, medicine, and the arts and humanities, as well as philosophy.
uanews.org /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=8954   (612 words)

  
 The Matrix as Metaphysics by David Chalmers: review by Peter B Lloyd
Chalmers says that "the picture is strange and surprising" but that is only because he is failing to make explicit that there are two separate language-games, and that the assertion of the table and chairs' existence is valid only within one of the games.
Chalmers' thesis that statements and beliefs within the Matrix are true and on an equal footing with those outside the Matrix leads to a mess of confusion over proper nouns.
Chalmers is in a pickle here, because his logic requires him to insist on the envatted person saying "virtual action" and "virtual friend", and yet he knows that this will cause problems when real brains move between operating in the Matrix world and the outer world.
www.ursasoft.com /matrix/WB-Chalmers.htm   (5389 words)

  
 CNN.com - Texas businessman indicted in U.N. oil-for-food probe - Apr 15, 2005
David Chalmers, owner of the Houston-based company Bayoil Inc., which participated in the U.N. program, was arrested in the Texas city Thursday and made an initial appearance in federal court.
Chalmers faces three felony charges in an indictment unveiled by Kelley, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, whose office is overseeing the federal criminal probe.
Chalmers is accused of wire fraud, conducting financial transactions with a state sponsor of terrorism and breaking the economic embargo with Iraq.
www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/04/14/oilfood.indictment   (1176 words)

  
 The Fantasy of First-Person Science
Now Chalmers has objected (in the debate) that this “behavioristic” treatment of belief is itself question-begging against an alternative vision of belief in which, for instance, “having a phenomenological belief doesn’t involve just a pattern of responses, but often requires having certain experiences.” (personal correspondence, 2/19/01).
Chalmers and his zombie twin are heterophenomenological twins: when we interpret all the data we have, we end up attributing to them exactly the same heterophenomenological worlds.
Chalmers seems to think that conducting surveys of his audiences, to see what proportion can be got to declare their allegiance to the Zombic Hunch, yields important data.
ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/chalmersdeb3dft.htm   (9167 words)

  
 The David Chalmers Chronicles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
David Chalmers started his professional career in the rock and roll business in 1967 playing lead guitar for "Butterscotch Grove", managed by Irv Azoff present manager of; Eagles, Joe Walsh, and REO Speedwagon.
Dave Chalmers moved on to further develop an opening in the playing field of his dynamic creativity by forming "The Dave Chalmers Band", touring the Midwest in the late 70s, and early 80s and performing with countless top name bands: Journey, Tom Petty, Climax Blues Band, and The Outlaws just to name a few.
Always a little ahead of his time, Dave Chalmers is busy working in his sound studio in California, on new sounds in his musical world he hopes to release in the year 2000.
www.davidchalmersband.com /DCB/David_Chalmers.html   (340 words)

  
 David Chalmers at AllExperts
David John Chalmers (April 20, 1966 -) is a leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind.
Before he moved to the Australian National University in 2004, Chalmers was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona and prior to Arizona he taught at UC Santa Cruz.
David Chalmers has compiled what could be the largest bibliography on the philosophy of mind and related fields with close to 8000 annotated entries topically organized.
en.allexperts.com /e/d/da/david_chalmers.htm   (558 words)

  
 David Chalmers: the hard problem of consciousness and the brain.
Chalmers is careful to explain that he doesn't mean the 'easy' problem is trivial, just nothing like as mind-boggling as qualia, the redness of red, the ineffably subjective aspect of experience.
Chalmers is surely a dualist, because he believes in two kinds of fundamental stuff, and he is an epiphenomenalist, because he believes our thoughts and feelings have no real influence on the world.
Chalmers sees a kind of harmony between his views and one of the possible interpretations of quantum theory.
www.consciousentities.com /chalmers.htm   (1997 words)

  
 Organist David Chalmers
A performer of wide-ranging interests and experience, David Chalmers has given numerous organ concerts in the United States and abroad, including engagements in New York, Pittsburgh, Nashville, West Point, many American Guild of Organist Chapters throughout the country, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, Princeton University, and at Trinity Church in Boston, MA.
Chalmers has won second place in the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, and has been a finalist in the Grand Prix de Chartres International Organ Competition.
Chalmers has been featured on the Gloriæ Dei Cantores recordings Leo Sowerby: American Master of Sacred Song, and Peace Be With You (J.S. Bach).
www.gdaf.org /organist_david_chalmers.php   (477 words)

  
 Philosophy Now
One of those stirring up the dust is David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher who says that consciousness is a fundamental component of the universe, like space, time and mass.
David Chalmers is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and as of January 1999, he will be Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Centre for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.
David Chalmers' home page on the internet is at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/ From here you can access his many projects.
www.philosophynow.org /issue21/21chalmers.htm   (3933 words)

  
 Interview with Chalmers
David Chalmers is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and as of January 1999, he will be Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.
Chalmers: 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.
Chalmers: Well, I take materialism, or physicalism, to be the thesis that the only fundamental properties and laws in nature are those characterized by physics: space, time, mass, charge, and so on, and the various laws governing them.
www.ditext.com /chalmers/chalm.html   (5298 words)

  
 ISCID - David Chalmers Chat - Developing a science of consciousness
Chalmers is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.
Chalmers is also the author of "The Conscious Mind" and a leading philosopher of mind and consciousness.
Chalmers regularly defends a non-reductive, yet fully naturalistic account of consciousness (defined as experience or "what's it like").
www.iscid.org /davidchalmers-chat.php   (3304 words)

  
 Molecular Revolution: David Chalmers on 'Experience' and 'Consciousness'
So I've perused David Chalmers's "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" (1995), which is a sort of cornerstone article in the field.
Chalmers states that hardest part in discussing consciousness is discussing the problem of experience: namely, why we experience things at all.
This is probably why Chalmers is considered by analytic philosophers to be one of the few remaining dualists around.
molecularphilosopher.blogspot.com /2006/09/david-chalmers-on-experience-and.html   (414 words)

  
 Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad's eXploring Intelligence - David Chalmers
It was kind of overkill :) David Chalmers is a philosopher at the University of Arizona and the Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies.
David Chalmers favors a non-reductionist approach to the study of consciousness.
David Chalmers' official website can be found at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers The site has a huge collection of papers on consciousness and related matters of interest.
www.cs.rit.edu /~maa2454/expint/?Philosophy_of_Mind:People:David_Chalmers   (341 words)

  
 All In The Mind - 10/08/2003: David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness
David Chalmers is on the Board of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and he regularly brings big thinkers from around the world together on his desert campus on Tuscon, Arizona to discuss and debate his great passion for big ideas with difficult, or even impossible, answers.
Dave Chalmers: Doug had interests in everything from the study of language to the study of creativity, to humour, to mathematics, we’d have a workshop one weekend on jokes and how you analyse the structure of a joke.
Dave Chalmers: I don’t see it that way, I mean the reason is we are used to the idea that in science you’ve got to take some things as basic and irreducible, you don’t get science for nothing, there are some aspects of the world you’ve got to take as basic.
www.abc.net.au /rn/science/mind/s919229.htm   (4327 words)

  
 David Chalmers. Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement African American Review - Find Articles
David Chalmers is the author of Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan, the third edition of which was published in 1987.
It is the fourth "story" that most confuses Chalmers's purpose, as stated in his subtitle: He moves beyond the Ku Klux Klan to discuss-perhaps too briefly--the 50,000 or so "organized racial supremacists" in the United States, their influence extending a "significant way beyond their numbers" (146).
As Chalmers puts it, "In the changing world of the 1960s, doing what Klansmen liked to do best helped bring about federal intervention, new national civil rights laws, trials in less sympathetic federal courts, and, eventually, guilty verdicts from local juries" (40-41).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_4_38/ai_n13786737   (661 words)

  
 Bates College | David Chalmers
David Chalmers, professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University, visited Bates College recently as the guest of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Professor Chalmers' work develops a philosophical understanding of the nature of conscious experience and the relationship of consiousness to its neuroscientific underpinnings.
Chalmers, who also works on the foundations of cognitive science and of physics and on philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, was recently named an Australia Research Council Federation Fellow.
www.bates.edu /david-chalmers.xml   (327 words)

  
 Psybertron Asks » David Chalmers Consciousness
Chalmers name-drops an impressive list of acknowledgments, but is brave enough to point out that Hofstadter (his original mentor) and Dennett largely disagree with him.
I think he overhypes the exciting mysetry angle, but he is right to distinguish the hard problem (the subjective “quality” of consciousness) from the easy problem (the physical “causality” of senses and actions), and in doing so admits to preserving an unfashionable duality.
Sadly none of those references makes it to Chalmers’ bibliography - but nothing new there - there is an academic mainstream that insulates itself from what it sees as non-academics.
www.psybertron.org /?p=1037   (973 words)

  
 JustOneMinute: UNScam Indictments - Who Is David Chalmers?
The Texan, David B. Chalmers, a principal of Bay Oil U.S.A. Inc., and an associate of the oil trading company, Ludmil Dionissiev, a Bulgarian and permanent American resident, were arrested this morning at their homes in Houston.
Chalmers made the news last fall - the LA Times ran an Oct.
Chalmers also made the news for his involvement in some oil for arms deals with Saddam back in the 1980s, when Saddam was the good (or at least, less bad) guy in his war with Iran.
justoneminute.typepad.com /main/2005/04/unscam_indictme.html   (1133 words)

  
 David Chalmers
David John Chalmers was born in 1966 and grew up in Australia.
Chalmers works mainly in the philosophy of mind, and in related areas of cognitive science and metaphysics.
David Chalmers has written articles and prepared renamed courses on consciousness, mental content, computation, artificial intelligence, and various other topics in philosophy and cognitive science.
cajal.unizar.es /eng/part/Chalmers.html   (359 words)

  
 David Chalmers humanities lecture:03-10-97
David Chalmers to explore the "puzzle of consciousness" in humanities lecture
David Chalmers, assistant professor of philosophy, will present the talk, "The Puzzle of Consciousness" from 7 to 8 p.m.
In his talk, Chalmers will discuss the ideas in his 1995 book, The Conscious Mind, which aims to establish an approach to understanding one of our great modern mysteries--consciousness.
www.ucsc.edu /oncampus/currents/97-03-10/chalmers.htm   (336 words)

  
 Organist David Chalmers
A performer of wide-ranging interests and experience, David Chalmers has given numerous organ concerts in the United States and abroad, including engagements in New York, Pittsburgh, Nashville, West Point, many American Guild of Organist Chapters throughout the country, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, Princeton University, and at Trinity Church in Boston, MA.
Chalmers has won second place in the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, and has been a finalist in the Grand Prix de Chartres International Organ Competition.
Chalmers has been featured on the Gloriæ Dei Cantores recordings Leo Sowerby: American Master of Sacred Song, and Peace Be With You (J.S. Bach).
gdaf.org /organist_david_chalmers.php   (477 words)

  
 David Chalmers
Chalmers exhibits the kind of exuberance often seen on personal pages; he is quite self-revealing.
Chalmers also has a set of links to other personal home pages with on-line articles; naturally, this list reflects his philosophical interests.
Chalmers writes, "Zombies are hypothetical creature (sic) of the sort that philosophers have been known to cherish.
www.apa.udel.edu /apa/archive/newsletters/v96n2/computers/chalmers.asp   (563 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series): Books: David J. Chalmers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Chalmers argues persuasively and eloquently that standard reductive approaches in cognitive science and in philosophy of mind inevitably address only the easier problems associated with consciousness while ignoring the hard and central problem of explaining the phenomenal ("what it's like") qualities of experience--and that there is no hope of explaining these features reductively....
Chalmers is a declared property dualist (it is not terribly important to know the distinction between property or substance or emergent dualists.
Chalmers has tried to write a book that is accessible to those unfamiliar with the subject; however, he notes that some technical sections will be very difficult for them to follow.
www.amazon.com /Conscious-Mind-Search-Fundamental-Philosophy/dp/0195117891   (3579 words)

  
 Review, Winter 1997 - David Chalmers
At a national conference in 1994, philosopher David Chalmers proposed that consciousness also belongs on the list.
Chalmers adroitly described a view that an increasing number of scientists, philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists, and others have pondered in recent years--to understand consciousness we must look beyond the physical processes of the brain.
Chalmers readily acknowledges that these problems are quite complex and may take a century or more to resolve.
www.ucsc.edu /news_events/review/text_only/Winter-97/David_Chalmers-Untangling_.html   (417 words)

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