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David Chalmers explicitly links his philosophical work on consciousness to the historical contributions of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, specifically citing Leibniz's 1714 'mill' argument [1] and acknowledging him as a precursor to his own formulation of the hard problem {fact:1, fact:3}.
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David Chalmers Thinks the Hard Problem Is Really Hard scientificamerican.com 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers acknowledges that he was not the first person to identify consciousness as a special kind of problem, noting that philosophers such as Descartes and Leibniz previously thought along similar lines.
David Chalmers - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers notes that his arguments regarding consciousness are similar to a line of thought originating in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's 1714 "mill" argument.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimThinkers who made arguments similar to David Chalmers's formulation of the hard problem include Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Henry Huxley.