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David Chalmers is a prominent philosopher who has significantly influenced the discourse on panpsychism, notably through his 1996 book 'The Conscious Mind' [1] and his extensive academic contributions such as 'Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism' [2]. He is recognized as a proponent who explores panpsychism as a potential solution to the mind-body problem [3] and the hard problem of consciousness [4], while also identifying key theoretical challenges like the 'combination problem' [5].
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Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 10 facts
perspectiveDavid Chalmers and Philip Goff describe panpsychism as an alternative to both materialism and dualism.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that panpsychism offers the benefits of materialism by potentially allowing consciousness to be physical while avoiding the problem of epiphenomenalism.
claimDavid Chalmers, Annaka Harris, and Galen Strawson are proponents of panpsychism who utilize the reasoning that extrinsic physical properties must have corresponding intrinsic properties.
perspectivePhilosophers David Chalmers and John Searle consider Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to be a form of panpsychism.
claimIn David Chalmers's formulation of panpsychism, information in any given position is phenomenally realized, while the informational state of the superposition as a whole is not.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers calls panpsychism an alternative to both materialism and dualism.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that panpsychism respects the conclusions of both the causal argument against dualism and the conceivability argument for dualism.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that while there is no direct evidence for or against panpsychism, there are indirect theoretical reasons to take the view seriously.
referenceDavid Chalmers's 2015 argument for the mind-body problem consists of: (1) Thesis: materialism is true; everything is fundamentally physical. (2) Antithesis: dualism is true; not everything is fundamentally physical. (3) Synthesis: panpsychism is true.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers considers panpsychism a viable solution to the hard problem of consciousness, although he is not committed to any single philosophical view.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 8 facts
referenceDavid Chalmers notes that Seager provides motivation for panpsychism and offers an accounting of its associated problems.
claimGregg Rosenberg and William Seager have published defenses of panpsychism against objections and have criticized David Chalmers for not adopting a sufficiently panpsychist position.
claimDavid Chalmers observes that while contributors like Eugene Mills and Valerie Hardcastle are skeptical of panpsychism, explicit arguments against the theory are difficult to locate in the literature.
claimDavid Chalmers claims that the integration of experience into the causal order is the greatest theoretical benefit of panpsychism.
claimWhile many proposals for a fundamental theory of consciousness invoke panpsychism, David Chalmers notes that Benjamin Libet and Henry Stapp have proposed fundamental theories of consciousness that do not rely on panpsychism.
claimDavid Chalmers asserts that the 'no-sign' problem, which posits that we cannot have external access to the intrinsic properties underlying physical dispositions, can be solved by the Russellian interpretation of panpsychism.
claimDavid Chalmers identifies the 'combination problem' (also known as the 'constitution problem') as the most difficult challenge in panpsychism, defined as the problem of how low-level proto-experiential properties constitute complex, unified conscious experiences.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that panpsychism deserves attention as a potential component of a predictive theory of consciousness, though he remains agnostic about its truth.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 4 facts
perspectiveThe author argues that if David Chalmers and his followers are correct that panpsychism avoids the serious problems faced by monist materialism, interactionism, and epiphenomenalism, then further investment in solving the combination problem is warranted.
referenceDavid Chalmers published 'The combination problem for panpsychism' in 2016 in the book 'Panpsychism', edited by G. Bruntrup and L. Jaskolla and published by Oxford University Press.
claimDavid Chalmers defines panpsychism as the thesis that some fundamental physical entities, such as quarks or photons, possess mental states, even if entities like rocks or numbers do not.
claimDavid Chalmers believes that a panpsychist or panprotopsychist approach to phenomenal composition is perhaps the only viable line of reasoning, though he acknowledges it is not clear how phenomenal composition could work as a form of constitutive composition.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
referenceDavid Chalmers authored the chapter 'Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism' in the book 'Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives', published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers and Galen Strawson both state that panpsychism is, in a sense, a form of physicalism.
claimThomas Nagel, Galen Strawson, Philip Goff, and David Chalmers have revived interest in panpsychism and neutral monism in recent decades.
PANPSYCHISM (Philosophy of Mind Series) - Amazon.com amazon.com 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers' book 'The Conscious Mind', published in 1996, is credited with bringing debates on panpsychism into the philosophical mainstream.
claimDavid Chalmers wrote two survey articles, "Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism" and "The Combination Problem for Panpsychism," which were circulated to the authors of the book "Panpsychism" to help create a coherent volume.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love 2 facts
perspectiveDavid Chalmers views panpsychism as a potential 'middle path' solution to the mind-body problem.
referenceDavid Chalmers provides a taxonomy of combination issues regarding panpsychism in his 2016 contribution to the book 'Panpsychism'.
David Chalmers - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers speculates that all information-bearing systems may be conscious, leading him to consider the possibility of conscious thermostats and a form of panpsychism he terms "panprotopsychism."
claimDavid Chalmers maintains a formal agnosticism regarding panpsychism, acknowledging that this position places him at odds with the majority of his contemporaries.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers (1996), Piet Hut, Roger Shepard, Gregg Rosenberg, and William Seager (in Shear, 1997) have approached the problem of consciousness in ways sympathetic to panpsychism without providing full-scale defenses.
referenceDavid Chalmers and David Bourget maintain a bibliography of papers on panpsychism.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers proposed a speculative version of panpsychism in 1996 that uses the concept of information to explain psycho-physical invariances and potentially derive the ontology of the physical from the informational.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers and Philip Goff identify the need to account for mental causation within the causal closure of the physical—the thesis that every physical event has a sufficient physical cause—as a motivation for panpsychism.