David Chalmers, Ph. D.

David Chalmers, Ph. D., is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies. He is especially interested in consciousness, but also interested in artificial intelligence and computation, philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, and the foundations of cognitive science and of physics.

He is on the board of directors of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and is associate editor of PSYCHE, an interdisciplinary e-journal on consciousness. Dr. Chalmers helps organize the biannual Tucson conferences on consciousness. He also edits the philosophy of mind series at Oxford University Press, and is the philosophy of mind editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and philosophy editor for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. In addition, he is the Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy at Arizona.

Dr. Chalmers is the author of The Conscious Mind:In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Oxford University Press, 1996). His article "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" forms the basis of Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem (MIT Press, 1997, Shear, J. ed.)