David Chalmers
David Chalmers
David John Chalmersis an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is also Professor of Philosophy at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth20 April 1966
CountryUnited States of America
They are dedicating a large part of their lives to this choir. Any gift from God is meant to be shared.
Any sacred text comes alive in a unique way when it is sung, and composers from Gregorian chant to the present day have known that.
Those things in a way didn't need to evolve. They were part of the fundamental furniture of the world all along.
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
To do two CDs worth of a very well known composer is a little different, but what isn't different is that one of the things we established when we started recording was that we were going to record things that were not as well known and that I think we've been fairly consistent about, even with famous composers.