David Chalmers' Papers
This page includes all my published papers and a few unpublished papers, listed in reverse chronological order by date of writing (not date of publication). More detailed descriptions of many of these papers (although not the most recent papers) are available at my pages of papers on consciousness, meaning and modality, AI and computation, and miscellaneous. See also the master index and the page of responses to articles on my work.
2010
Actuality and Knowability. Analysis, July 2011.
The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis. Journal of Consciousness Studies 17:7-65, 2010.
2009
Verbal Disputes. Philosophical Review, 120:4, 2011.
Revisability and Conceptual Change in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.
2008
Mind and Consciousness: Five Questions. In (P. Grim, ed) Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions. Automatic Press, 2008.
Foreword to Supersizing the Mind. In Andy Clark, Supersizing the Mind. Oxford University Press, 2008.
2007
Ontological Anti-Realism. In (D. Chalmers, D. Manley, and R. Wasserman) Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Propositions and Attitude Ascriptions: A Fregean Account. Nous, forthcoming.
2006
Ramsey + Moore = God (with Alan Hajek). Analysis 67:170-72, 2007.
Frege's Puzzle and the Objects of Credence. Mind, forthcoming.
Scott Soames' Two-Dimensionalism. For a session at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, in April 2006.
2005
The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism. Abridged version in (B. McLaughlin, ed) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap. In (T. Alter & S. Walter, eds) Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Two-Dimensional Semantics. In (E. Lepore & B. Smith, eds) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press, 2006.
2004
Perception and the Fall from Eden In (T. Gendler & J. Hawthorne, eds) Perceptual Experience. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Soames on Two-Dimensionalism. Handout for talk at Arizona State University, January 2004.
2003
How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness? In (M. Gazzaniga, ed) The Cognitive Neurosciences III. MIT Press, 2004.
The Representational Character of Experience. In (B. Leiter, ed) The Future for Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Matrix as Metaphysics. For the philosophy section of the official Matrix website. Also in (C. Grau, ed) Philosophers Explore the Matrix (Oxford University Press, 2005). Reprinted in (T. Gendler, S. Siegel, & T. Cahn, eds) The Elements of Philosophy (McGraw-Hill, 2007). Reprinted in (S. Schneider, ed) Science Fiction and Philosophy (Wiley, 2009).
2002
Phenomenal Concepts and the Knowledge Argument. In (P. Ludlow, Y. Nagasawa, & D. Stoljar, eds) There's Something about Mary: Essays on Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism. MIT Press, 2004.
Imagination, Indexicality, and Intensions. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68:182-90 (symposium on Perry's Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness), 2004. The online version includes an additional response to John Perry's reply.
Strong and Weak Emergence. In (P. Clayton and P. Davies, eds) The Re-Emergence of Emergence. Oxford University Press, 2006.
The Nature of Narrow Content. Philosophical Issues 13:46-66, 2003.
2001
The Components of Content. In Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics. In (M. Garcia-Carpintero & J. Macia, eds) Two-Dimensional Semantics: Foundations and Applications (Oxford University Press, 2006). Abridged as "Epistemic Two-Dimensional Semantics" in Philosophical Studies 18:153-226, 2004.
The St. Petersburg Two-Envelope Paradox. Analysis 62:155-57, 2002.
Consciousness and its Place in Nature. In (S. Stich & F., Warfield, eds) Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind. Blackwell, 2003. Also in (D. Chalmers, ed) Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Oxford University Press, 2002). Reprinted (abridged) in( W. Lycan & J. Prinz, eds) Mind and Cognition: A Reader (Blackwell, 2007).
The Nature of Epistemic Space. In (A. Egan and B. Weatherson, eds) Epistemic Modality. Oxford University Press, forthcoming (2011).
What is the Unity of Consciousness? (with Tim Bayne). In (A. Cleeremans, ed) The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration, Dissociation. Oxford University Press, 2003.
2000
On Sense and Intension. Philosophical Perspectives 16, 2002. Reprinted in (M. Davidson, ed) On Sense and Direct Reference: Readings in the Philosophy of Language (McGraw-Hill, 2007).
Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation (with Frank Jackson). Philosophical Review, 110:315-61, 2001.
The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief. In (Q. Smith & A. Jokic, eds) Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2003.
1999
Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? In (T. Gendler & J. Hawthorne, eds) Conceivability and Possibility. Oxford University Press, 2002.
What is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness? In (T. Metzinger, ed) Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Issues. MIT Press, 2000. Reprinted in (A. Noe & E. Thompson, eds) Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception (MIT Press, 2003).
First-Person Methods in the Study of Consciousness. Consciousness Bulletin, University of Arizona, 1999.
1998
The Tyranny of the Subjunctive. Unpublished.
Materialism and the Metaphysics of Modality. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59:473-93, 1999. In a symposium on The Conscious Mind, which also included a precis.
1997
The Problems of Consciousness. In (H. Jasper, L. Descarries, V. Castellucci, & S. Rossignol, eds) Consciousness: At the Frontiers of Neuroscience (Advances in Neurology, Vol. 77). Lippincott-Raven Press, 1998.
On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness. In (S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak, & A.Scott, eds.) Toward a Science of Consciousness II. MIT Press, 1998.
1996
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 4(1), 1997. Reprinted in (J. Shear, ed.), Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem. MIT Press, 1997.
1995
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience. Scientific American, 237(6):62-68, December 1995. Reprinted in (P. van Inwagen & D. Zimmerman, eds) Metaphysics: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998). Reprinted in (T. Schick & L. Vaughn, eds) Doing Philosophy: A Guide Through Thought-Experiments (Mayfield, 1999). Reprinted in (A. Damasio, ed) The Scientific American Book of the Brain (Lyons Press, 2001). Reprinted in (W. Lawhead, ed Philosophical Questions (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Reprinted in (L. Bonjour & A. Baker, eds) Philosophical Problems: An Annotated Anthology (Longman, 2004). Reprinted in (B. Beedles & M. Petracca, eds) Academic Communities/Disciplinary Conventions (Prentice-Hall, 2001). Reprinted in (B. Gertler & L. Shapiro, eds) Arguing About the Mind (Routledge, 2007).
Minds, Machines, and Mathematics. Psyche, 2:11-20, 1995.
The Extended Mind (with Andy Clark). Analysis 58:10-23, 1998. Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, 1998. Reprinted in (D.J. Chalmers, ed) Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Oxford University Press, 2002). Reprinted in (B. Gertler & L. Shapiro, eds) Arguing About the Mind (Routledge, 2007). Reprinted in (W. Lycan & J. Prinz, eds) Mind and Cognition, third edition (Blackwell, 2007). Reprinted in (A. Clark) Supersizing the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2008). Reprinted in (R. Menary, ed.) The Extended Mind (Ashgate, 2008).
The Components of Content (1995 version). Unpublished.
1994
Review of Journal of Consciousness Studies. Times Literary Supplement, November 1994.
Availability: The Cognitive Basis of Experience? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20:148-9, 1997. Reprinted in (N. Block, O. Flanagan, and G. Guzeldere, eds.) The Nature of Consciousness (MIT Press, 1997).
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2(3):200-19, 1995. Reprinted in (S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak, & A.Scott, eds.) Toward a Science of Consciousness (MIT Press, 1996). Reprinted in J. Shear (ed.) Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem (MIT Press, 1997). Reprinted in J. Heil (ed.) Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology (Oxford University Press, 2003). Reprinted without attribution in (J. Vacca, ed) The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems (Prentice-Hall, 2004). Reprinted in (R. Carter) Exploring Consciousness (University of California Press, 2002). Reprinted in (M. Eckert, ed) Theories of Mind: Introductory Readings (Rowman and Littlefield). Reprinted (as "The Hard Problem of Consciousness" and "Naturalistic Dualism") in (M. Velmans and S. Schneider, eds) The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness (Blackwell, 2007).
The Two-Envelope Paradox: A Complete Analysis? Unpublished.
1993
Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton? Synthese 108:309-33, 1996.
A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition. Journal of Cognitive Science, forthcoming (2012). Section 2 was published as "On Implementing a Computation", Minds and Machines 4:391-402, 1994.
Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia. In (T. Metzinger, ed.) Conscious Experience. Ferdinand Schoningh, 1995. Reprinted in (T. O'Connor & D. Robb, Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2003).
1992
Self-Ascription Without Qualia: A Case-Study (commentary on A. Goldman, The Psychology of Folk Psychology). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1993.
Connectionism and Compositionality: Why Fodor and Pylyshyn Were Wrong. Philosophical Psychology 6:305-19, 1993.
1991
Is There Synonymy in Ockham's Mental Language? In (P. V. Spade, ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subsymbolic Computation and the Chinese Room. In (J. Dinsmore, ed.) The Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms: Closing the Gap, pp. 25-48. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992.
1990
High-Level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Methodology (with Robert M. French & Douglas R. Hofstadter). Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 4:185-211, 1992. Reprinted in (D. R. Hofstadter) Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. Basic Books.
The Evolution of Learning: An Experiment in Genetic Connectionism. In Connectionist Models: Proceedings of the 1990 Summer School Workshop, 1990. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Why Fodor and Pylyshyn Were Wrong: The Simplest Refutation. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1990. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Consciousness and Cognition. Unpublished.
1989
Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations. Connection Science 2: 53-62, 1990. Reprinted in (N. Sharkey, ed) Connectionist Natural Language Processing (Intellect, 1992).
Computing the Thinkable (commentary on R. Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13: 658-9, 1990.
Other
For more unpublished proto-papers and commentaries from 1989-1994, see miscellaneous writings.