Facts about David Chalmers

Occup.Philosopher
FromUSA
BornApril 20, 1966
Age58 years

Summary

David Chalmers is a famous Philosopher from USA, he/she is 58 years old and still alive, born April 20, 1966.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience. Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by David.

15 Famous quotes by David Chalmers

Small: I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by a
"I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little"
Small: Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and d
"Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news"
Small: Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem
"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"
Small: Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consci
"Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this"
Small: Although Im Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
Small: Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psycholo
"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes"
Small: Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia
"Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia"
Small: Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying conscious
"Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century"
Small: What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a neural correlate of consciousness?
"What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?"
Small: Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories
"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate"
Small: Theres certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem
"There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem"
Small: Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial th
"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that"
Small: People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best
"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best"
Small: It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists language
"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language"
Small: I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one
"I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years"