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David Chalmers is connected to reductionism through his family background, where his father is a reductionist [1], his Conceivability and Scrutability arguments contributing to the reductionism versus emergentism debate on consciousness [2], and his critiques of Daniel Dennett's reductive accounts of experience [3].
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers argues that Daniel Dennett's reductive accounts of phenomena like 'cuteness' and 'perception' fail to support reductionism about experience because they either lack plausibility or rely on experiential properties that reductive accounts omit.
David Chalmers Thinks the Hard Problem Is Really Hard scientificamerican.com 1 fact
accountDavid Chalmers's father is a medical researcher and a reductionist, while his mother is a spiritual thinker and a non-reductionist.