Space, Time and Consciousness

This project explores the relationships between space, time, and consciousness. It brings in work from the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, metaphysics, and the foundations of physics.

To date there have been eight meetings:

The Evolution and Function of Consciousness (NY, October 2012)
Subjectivism, Temporalism, and the Mind-Body Problem (NY, December 2012)
Consciousness and the Passage of Time (NY, October 2013)
Finding Space (Paris, June 2015)
Integrated Information Theory (NY, November 2015)

Reflexive Theories of Consciousness (Canberra, July 2016)
Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem (Shanghai, June 2017)
Grounding and Consciousness (Florence, August 2017)

Project Members

Principal Investigator: David Chalmers (NYU)

  • Miri Albahari (Western Australia)
  • David Albert (Columbia)
  • Kati Balog (Rutgers-Newark)
  • David Bennett (Brown)
  • Heather Berlin (Mount Sinai)
  • Ned Block (NYU)
  • Paul Boghossian (NYU)
  • Berit Brogaard (Miami)
  • Richard Brown (CUNY)
  • Alex Byrne (MIT)
  • Sean Carroll (Caltech)
  • David Chalmers (NYU)
  • Barry Dainton (Liverpool)
  • Frederique de Vignemont (Jean-Nicod Institute)
  • Cian Dorr (NYU)
  • Kit Fine (NYU)
  • Bronwyn Finnigan (ANU)
  • Jonardon Ganeri (NYU Abu Dhabi)
  • Philip Goff (Central European University)
  • Anna Greenspan (NYU Shanghai)
  • Caspar Hare (MIT)
  • Hedda Hassel Morch (NYU)
  • Chris Hill (Brown)
  • Mark Johnston (Princeton)
  • Christof Koch (Caltech)
  • Uriah Kriegel (Nicod Institute)
  • Geoff Lee (Berkeley)
  • Christian List (LSE)
  • Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
  • Beatrice Longuenesse (NYU)
  • Clare MacCumhaill (Durham)
  • Farid Masrour (Wisconsin)
  • Tim Maudlin (NYU)
  • Matthew McKenzie (Colorado State)
  • Brian Mclaughlin (Rutgers)
  • Kelvin McQueen (Tel Aviv)
  • Carla Merino-Rajme (UNC)
  • Giovanni Merlo (Stirling)
  • Barbara Montero (CUNY)
  • Hedda Hassel Morch (NYU)
  • John Morrison (Columbia)
  • Tom Nagel (NYU)
  • Alyssa Ney (UC Davis)
  • Martine Nida-Rumelin (Fribourg)
  • Claudia Passos (UFRJ)
  • Laurie Paul (UNC)
  • Adam Pautz (Texas)
  • Chris Peacocke (Columbia)
  • Michael Pelczar (Singapore)
  • Ian Phillips (Oxford)
  • Jesse  Prinz (CUNY)
  • Gabriel Rabin (NYU Abu Dhabi)
  • Howard Robinson (Central European University)
  • David Rosenthal (CUNY)
  • Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers)
  • Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers)
  • Susan Schneider (Connecticut)
  • Susanna Siegel (Harvard)
  • Jonathan Simon (NYU)
  • Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  • Daniel Stoljar (ANU)
  • Max Tegmark (MIT)
  • Brad Thompson (SMU)
  • Giulio Tononi (Wisconsin)
  • Jonathan Vogel (Columbia)
  • Brad Weslake (NYU Shanghai)
  • Seth Yalcin (Berekely)
  • Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers)