Online discussions of my work

Note: I stopped updating this page sometime in the 2000s. It's included here mostly as a curiosity.

Here are a few places where my work is discussed on the web: papers, interviews, audio and video, etc. For replies to some of these articles, see my page of responses.

Papers on the problem of consciousness

• A Materialist Response to David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind (Paul Raymore)
• Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness (Alva Noë & Evan Thompson)
• Consciousness: Chalmers and Dennett (Steve Torrance)
• Consciousness and the Philosophers (John Searle) [reply 1 and reply 2]
• Cosmic Consciousness for Tough Minds (David Pearce)
• Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness (Dan Dennett) [reply]
• Function and Phenomenology: Closing the Explanatory Gap (Tom Clark) [reply]
• Mind and Experience (Robert Pallbo)
• Mind as Metaphor (James Hopkins)
• The Fantasy of First-Person Science (Daniel Dennett) [reply]
• The Hard Problem is Dead: Long Live the Hard Problem (Teed Rockwell)
• The Hard Problem Isn't (Michael Lissack)
• The Hornswoggle Problem (Pat Churchland) [reply]

• An Orthodox Christian Look at the Mind/Body Problem (Steven Perkins)
• Chalmers on Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics (Alex Byrne & Ned Hall) [reply]
• Common Sense Materialism (Michael Pelczar)
• Consciousness, Information, and Panpsychism (William Seager) [reply]
• Hard Problems, Interpretive Concepts, and Humean Laws
• How Not to be a Reductivist (William Hasker)
• On an Argument Against Qualia Inversion (Michael Pelczar)
• Painless Pain: Property Dualism and the Causal Role of Phenomenal Consciousness (Michael Pauen)
• The Irreducibility of Consciousness (Amy Kind)
• The Knowledge Argument against Dualism (Yujin Nagasawa)
• The Relation of Consciousness to the Material World (Max Velmans) [reply]

• Chalmers' Zombie Argument (Istvan Aranyosi)
• Conceivability, Possibility, and the Mind-Body Problem (Katalin Balog) [reply]
• Conceiving Beyond our Means (Robert van Gulick) [reply]
• Concepts and Consciousness (Stephen Yablo) [reply]
• Consciousness and Introspective Inaccuracy (Derk Pereboom)
• Consciousness, Conceivability, and Concepts (Esa Diaz Leon)
• Critique of the Conceivability Debate (Douglas Alan)
• How to Argue with a Zombie (Daniel Cohnitz)
• I, Zombie (Paul Skokowski) [reply]
• In the Hands of Zombies (Navin Kartik)
• Logical Possibility, Laws of Nature, and Mind (Wallace Matson)
• Of Zombies, Color Scientists, and Floating Iron Bars (Tamler Sommers) reply]
• Physicalism, Conceivability, and Strong Necessities (Jesper Kallestrup)
• Putting Zombies to Rest: The Role of Dynamics in Reduction (Peter Bokulich)
• Reining in Chalmers: On the Logical Possibility of Zombies (Chris Mathieson)
• Sniffing the Camembert: On the Conceivability of Zombies (Allin Cottrell)
• The Inconceivability of a Zombie World (Bharath Vallabha)
• Why Zombies Are Inconceivable (Eric Marcus)
• Zombie Killer (Nigel Thomas) [reply]
• Zombie Mary and the Blue Banana (Tillmann Vierkant) [reply]
• Zombies and the Case of the Phenomenal Pickpocket (Michael Lynch)
• Zombies Support Biological Theories of Consciousness (Andrew Bailey)

• Color Primitivism (Alex Byrne & David Hilbert)
• Comments on "Perception and the Fall from Eden" (Susanna Siegel)
• Direct Reference and Dancing Qualia (John Hawthorne) [reply]
• Is Phenomenal Pain the Primary Intension of 'Pain'? (Peter Alward)
• It's a Colorful World (Anna Marmodoro)
• Phenomenal and Perceptual Concepts (David Papineau)
• The Contents of Phenomenal Concepts (Darragh Byrne)
• The Phenomenal Concept Strategy (Peter Carruthers and Benedicte Veillet)
• The Two-Dimensional Content of Consciousness (Simon Prosser)

• Chalmers on the Apriority of Modal Knowledge (Christopher Hill) [reply]
• Conceivability and the A Priori (Manfred Kupffer)
• Conception by Omission (Lauren Ashwell)
• Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance (George Bealer)
• Modal Rationalism and Logical Empiricism: Some Similarities (Stephen Yablo) [reply]
• Morality in Fiction and Consciousness in Imagination (Brian Weatherson)
• The Two-Dimensionalist Reductio (Robert Howell)
• The Unsoundness of Arguments from Conceivability (Andrew Bailey)
• Why Positive and Negative Conceivability Can't Save the Conceivability-Possibility Link (Matthew Phillips)

• A Priori Entailment, Conceptual Analysis, and Making Room for Type-C Physicalism (Janice Dowell)
• Against A Priori Reductions (Laura Schroeter)
• Conceptual Analysis and the Explanatory Gap (Ned Block & Robert Stalnaker) [reply]
• Cosmic Hermeneutics (Alex Byrne) [reply]
• H2O, 'Water', and Transparent Reduction (Thomas Polger)
• Reductive Explanation and the 'Explanatory Gap' (Peter Carruthers)
• Reductive Materialism, Apriority, and the Problem of Consciousness (Sven Rosenkranz)
• Reference Fixing, Conceptual Analysis, and the A Priori (Christian Nimtz)
• Serious Metaphysics and the Vindication of Explanatory Reductions (Janice Dowell)
• Vs a New A Priorist Argumnent for Dualism (William Lycan)
• What is A Priori and What is it Good For? (David Henderson and Terry Horgan)

• Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism (Scott Soames)
• Bad Intensions (Alex Byrne and Jim Pryor) reply]
• Chalmers on Epistemic Content (Alex Byrne) reply]
• Considering Empty Worlds as Actual (Laura Schroeter)
• Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda (Stephen Yablo) [reply]
• Descriptivism and the Philosophy of Mind (Daniel Rothschild and Stephen Leuenberger)
• Gruesome Diagonals (Laura Schroeter)
• Kripkean Externalism versus Conceptual Analysis (Crawford Elder)
• Mental Content and Epistemic Two-Dimensional Semantics (Stephen Schiffer) [reply]
• Meaning, Reason, and Modality (Janice Dowell)
• On Considering a Possible World as Actual (Robert Stalnaker) [reply]
• Possible Worlds Semantics for Belief Sentences (Joe Lau)
• Problems and Misinterpretations of Two-Dimensional Semantics (Brian Rabern)
• Ptolemaic Intensions (Michael Pelczar)
• Reply to Critics of Reference and Description (Scott Soames)
• Textbook Kripkeanism and the Open Texture of Concepts (Stephen Yablo) [reply]
• The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary A Posteriori (Scott Soames)
• The Rationalist Foundations of Chalmers' 2-D Semantics (Laura Schroeter)
• Two-Dimensional Semantics and the Articulation Problem (Diego Marconi) [reply]
• Two-Dimensionalism and Natural Kind Terms (Christian Nimtz)
• Two-Dimensionalism and the Metaphysical Possibility of Zombies (Daniel Cohnitz)
• Varieties of Two-Dimensionalism (James Pryor)
• Why "Water" is Not an Indexical (Christian Nimtz & Ansgar Beckermann)

• A Subsymbolic Computationalist Reply to the Chinese Room (Ken Marable)
• Analogy Just Looks Like High-Level Perception (Fen Forbus, Dedre Genter, Arthur Markman, Ronald Ferguson)
• Beyond the Doubting of a Shadow (Roger Penrose)
• Causal versus Computational Complexity (Matthias Scheutz)
• Computational processes: A response to Chalmers and Copeland
• Holistic Computation: Reconstructing a Muddled Concept (James Hammerton)
• Implementation and Indeterminacy (Curtis Brown)
• Language of Thought: The Connectionist Contribution (Murat Aydede)
• Review of "The Matrix as Metaphysics" (Peter Lloyd)
• Structure-Mapping vs. High-Level Perception: The Mistaken Fight over the Explanation of Analogy (Clayton Morrison and Eric Dietrich)

• Challenges to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition (Robert Rupert)
• Patrolling the Mind's Boundaries (Daniel Weiskopf)
• "The Extended Mind" -- Extended (Joseph Fulda)
• The narrow mind (Brie Gertler)
• The Notebook (Katherine Power)
• Why the Mind is Still in the Head (Fred Adams & Ken Aizawa)

Online interviews

• Much Ado About Consciousness: An Interview with David Chalmers. This is an in-depth interview conducted by Andrew Chrucky (who has a very nice philosophical website of his own). This appeared in the Summer/Autumn 1998 issue of Philosophy Now, and goes into some interesting philosophical matters. Some people have told me that this is the best introduction to my work.

• Another interview, conducted by Christopher Lovett in 2002 for Cognitive Science Online.

• An interview with me conducted by Stephen Jones at Tucson II (1996), as part of his interesting Brain Project.

• Mind your TOEs: An interview with David Chalmers. This interview was conducted around 1996 by Trevor Thompson, an Australian science journalist, for 21C magazine. It's part of his 100% Sci-Phi website.

• Here's an online chat with a group of Polish philosophers in May 2002. Here's another with ISCID, a group devoted to complexity and design, in September 2002. I had to type fast -- watch out for typos!

Audio and video

• A 5-minute video from when I was made Regents Professor at Arizona. Not to be taken too seriously, but there are a few nice clips, and an excerpt or two from the Zombie Blues.

• An April 2004 radio interview with John Perry and Ken Taylor on Philosophy Talk, the cool new philosophy talk show. My bit starts about nine minutes in.

• An August 2003 radio interview with Natasha Mitchell for Australian ABC radio's "All in the Mind". There's also a transcript. The site also has a transcript of an earlier show on zombies, with me, Dan Dennett, and a zombie movie-maker.

• An audio file of a news piece on consciousness broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered on September 17, 1996. Apart from me, it features Dan Dennett, Christof Koch, Irene Pepperberg and her parrot Alex.

• Another audio piece, broadcast on The Infinite Mind in March 2001. I'm in a discussion with Christof Koch and Fred Goodwin. The program also features Descartes, Pat Churchland, and the Borg.

• Here is a video piece of a talk I gave at a symposium on consciousness at NIMH in May 2000. You can also find talks by Christof Koch, Allan Hobson, and Patricia Churchland, plus discussion.

• Closer to Truth is a sort of intellectual talk show broadcast on PBS. From their Brain and Mind page, you can find video movies and transcripts of three shows on which I appeared in 1999, plus other things on mind-brain-consciousness topics.

Miscellaneous

• Metaphysics of Consciousness: David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. This was a conference at Buffalo in November 1999. The site includes a number of online papers.

• Zombie wars at NYU This is a novelty: a news article (from March 2000) that goes into depth about serious analytic philosophy, by Barbara Montero. Montero also has two related articles: A new strain of materialism?, and Frank Jackson changes his mind.

• There is also some online discussion of my stuff on PSYCHE-D (a mailing list devoted to consciousness). Here are a couple of threads on The Conscious Mind and on Naturalism, and here are my own postings to PSYCHE-D.

Newspapers and magazines

• "Can Machines Think?"
  -Time (Robert Wright), April 5, 1996
• "Arizona Conference Grapples With Mysteries of Human Consciousness"
  -New York Times (Sandra Blakeslee), April 16, 1996
• "How to Make a Soul"
  -Wired (UK edition) (Andrew Brown), August 1996
• "Can Science Explain Consciousness?"
  -Scientific American (John Horgan), July 1995
• "Unraveling the Riddle of Identity"
  -Los Angeles Times (Robert Lee Hotz), September 16, 1996
• "Untangling the Knot of Consciousness"
  -UCSC Review (Barbara McKenna), Winter 1997
• "Consciousness Studies: From Stream to Flood"
  -New York Times (James Gorman), April 29,1997.
• "Quantum Consciousness? Welcome to the Mind-Boggling World of Mind-Brain Research"
  -Tucson Weekly (Dan Huff), April 2000
• "UA Scientists Delve into Study of Consciousness"
  -Arizona Daily Wildcat (Eric Swedlund), April 10, 2000
• "Who am I? Introspective Scientists are Probing the Mystery of Human Consciousness"
  -US News and World Report (Jay Tolson), June 12, 2000
• "Of a Mind Over the Matrix"
  -Boston Globe (Alex Beam), April 10, 2003
• "The Mind Makes a Comeback"
  -United Press International (Lou Marano), June 18, 2003
• "Matrix Conception Could be More than a Movie, Professor Says"
  -Wisconsin Badger Herald (Taylor Hughes), October 23, 2003
• "Can Robots Become Conscious?"
  -New York Times (Kenneth Chang), November 11, 2003
• "Regents Professor David Chalmers"
  -Lo Que Pasa (Jeff Harrison), April 7, 2004
• "Unraveling the Mysteries of the State of Being"
  -New York Times (Margaret Wertheim), April 13, 2004
• "Is God All In Your Head?"
  -What is Enlightenment? (Craig Hamilton), June 2005
• "Lunch with David Chalmers"
  -The Bulletin (Diana Bagnall), July 2005

• David Chalmers' home page
• Responses to articles on my work
• Reviews of The Conscious Mind