Talk:David Chalmers

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Contents 1 Chalmers's Anti-Physicalism in The Conscious Mind 2 David Chalmers of Oil for food 3 hair 4 German version

[edit] Chalmers's Anti-Physicalism in The Conscious Mind

I think the formulation of Chalmers' anti-physicalism was a little misleading, in that it was previously formulated in terms of irreducibility. Many philosophers (Donald Davidson is a famous example) hold that physicalism is true but deny that mental states like "the experience of awareness" are reducible to physical states. (They usually hold that physical states supervene on mental states instead, in that physical properties necessarily set mental ones; Chalmers denies this, making him an antiphysicalist. But discussion of the concept of supervenience may make the article unnecessarily complex.)

Since I think identification is more straightfoward, and any physicalist I can think of holds that mental states are at least token-identical with physical ones, I edited the article along those lines.

Couldn't we all have our own Wikipedia entry? User:Wetman

It depends, i myself don't need one.

[edit] David Chalmers of Oil for food

I landed here when looking for David Chalmers of oil for food. We need to clarify that this is not the greedy tycoon. See this page for more information. [1]

I removed the entry for the Oil for Food scandal thinking it was a blantant piece of vandalism. If the other Chalmers Jr is big to cause confusion then I think a disambiguation page might be a good idea. patrickw 15:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I have been told that I have removed (unintentionally) valuable information from the page. I have therefore reverted the page to its pre-existing condition. patrickw 16:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hair

i was thinking we could add a picture instead of talking about his hair. Obviously the queensrythe must go (or atleast add a source?). i couldnt find a creative commons picture so i emailed him and he replied:

i just took a look at the entry. i suppose i shouldn't comment much, but i did notice that one occurrence of "australian" is misspelled, and the "center" i direct is actually a "centre". also, the bibliography is now up to over 8000 entries. i've never heard the queensryche claim before!
cheers,
dave.
I added a picture from his website. Spencerk 00:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German version

Does it seem absurd to anybody else that the German version of Chalmers' site [2] is much larger than the English? And does anyone feel up to bringing this one, in his native language no less (!) up to scratch? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 150.203.2.85 (talk) 13:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

There is no reason to praise my German version of the article. Footnotes, 2D semantics and ontological antirealism are missing. I will expand the German version in the next weeks but it would be great to write the English and the German article at the same time. Anyone want to join me? --Davidlud 23:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)