Talk:David Chalmers

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.

Possibly Obscure Terminology

Can someone please clarify what the expression "brain's functional profile" means? Expos4ever (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

I changed it to "information processing in the brain", thanks for the feedback. Alenoach (talk) 18:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Clarifications

Hi @Pashute. I gave a look at this edit. Thanks for your contribution! For the added paragraph, I'm confused about a few things:

1. When the paragraph says "In the book", I'm not sure which book, is it The Conscious Mind or another one?
2. I didn't find the chapter "The Coherence of Property Dualism" in the book The Conscious Mind. I added a "verification failed" tag to the ref.
3. Not so clear why Jaegwon Kim is mentioned, seems a little tangential.

Alenoach (talk) 03:20, 14 July 2026 (UTC)