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David Chalmers - Some background information

David Chalmers - Some background information

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Posted 03/17/09 - 10:48 PM:
Subject: David Chalmers - Some background information

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From wikipedia:

Chalmers was born and grew up in Australia. Before he moved to the Australian National University in 2004, he was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. Prior to his stay at Arizona, he taught at UC Santa Cruz. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Adelaide, obtaining his Bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. He then briefly studied at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar before studying for his PhD at Indiana University Bloomington under Douglas Hofstadter. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program, directed by Andy Clark, at Washington University in St. Louis from 1993-1995.

He is the author of the book The Conscious Mind (1996), which discusses consciousness and its relation to the mind-body problem in philosophy of mind. In the book, Chalmers forcefully and cogently argues that all forms of physicalism (whether reductive or non-reductive) that have dominated philosophy and the sciences in modern times fail to account for the most essential aspects of consciousness. He proposes an alternative dualistic view that has come to be called property dualism. The book was described by The Sunday Times as "one of the best science books of the year".

An interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8xtUORDh4

His website can be found at http://consc.net/chalmers/

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