David Chalmers

David John Chalmers (/ˈtʃɑːmərz/;  an haife shi a ranar 20 ga Afrilu 1966)  masanin falsafa ne na Australiya kuma masanin kimiyya, ƙwararre a falsafar tunani da falsafar harshe. Shi farfesa ne na falsafa da kimiyyar jijiyoyi a Jami'ar New York (NYU), da kuma co-direkta na Cibiyar Mind, Brain da Consciousness ta NYU (tare da Ned Block). A shekara ta 2006, an zabe shi a matsayin ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Nazarin Dan Adam ta Australiya. A shekara ta 2013, an zabe shi a matsayin ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka.

Chalmers an fi saninsa da tsara matsala mai tsanani na sani, da kuma fadada gwajin tunanin zombie na falsafa.

Chalmers da David Bourget sun kafa PhilPapers; bayanan mujallu don masana falsafa.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi David Chalmers a Sydney, New South Wales, kuma daga baya ya girma a Adelaide, Kudancin Australia, inda ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Unley 

Yayinda yake yaro, ya sami synesthesia. Ya fara yin amfani da lambar da kuma buga Wasannin kwamfuta yana da shekaru 10 a kan PDP-10 a cibiyar kiwon lafiya. Ya kuma yi aiki na musamman a lissafi, kuma ya sami lambar tagulla a gasar Olympics ta kasa da kasa. Lokacin da Chalmers ke da shekaru 13, ya karanta littafin Douglas Hofstadter na 1979 Gödel, Escher, Bach, wanda ya farka da sha'awar falsafar."The Thinking Ape: The Enigma of Human Consciousness", via YouTube

Chalmers ya sami digiri na farko a cikin lissafi mai tsabta daga Jami'ar Adelaide . Bayan kammala karatunsa, Chalmers ya kwashe watanni shida yana karatun littattafan falsafar yayin da yake tafiya a duk faɗin Turai, kafin ya ci gaba da karatunsa a Jami'ar Oxford,  inda ya kasance Rhodes Scholar amma daga ƙarshe ya janye daga karatun. 

 Ayyuka 
A shekara ta 1994, Chalmers ya gabatar da lacca a taron farko na Toward a Science of Consciousness .  A cewar Tarihin Ilimi Mafi Girma, wannan "labaran ya kafa Chalmers a matsayin mai tunani da za a yi la'akari da shi kuma ya jagoranci wani sabon filin zuwa babban matsayi. "  Ya ci gaba da shirya taron (wanda aka sake masa suna "Kimiyyar Sanin") na wasu shekaru tare da Stuart Hameroff, amma ya tafi lokacin da ya ji ya zama ya bambanta da kimiyya ta al'ada. Chalmers memba ne na kafa kungiyar Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness kuma daya daga cikin shugabannin da suka gabata.

Bayan ya kafa sunansa, Chalmers ya sami farfesa na farko a UC Santa Cruz, daga Agusta 1995 zuwa Disamba 1998. A shekara ta 1996 ya wallafa littafin da aka fi ambaton shi The Conscious Mind . Daga baya aka nada Chalmers Farfesa a fannin Falsafa (1999-2004) sannan kuma Darakta na Cibiyar Nazarin Sanin (2002-2004) a Jami'ar Arizona."The Thinking Ape: The Enigma of Human Consciousness", via YouTube A shekara ta 2004, Chalmers ya koma Ostiraliya, wanda ARC Federation Fellowship ta karfafa shi, ya zama farfesa a fannin falsafa kuma darektan Cibiyar Sanin sani a Jami'ar Kasa ta Australia. Chalmers ya karbi farfesa na ɗan lokaci a Sashen falsafar Jami'ar New York a shekara ta 2009, ya zama farfesa na cikakken lokaci a shekara ta 2014. 

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1966