Chalmers alan biography

British-Australian philosopher of science (born 1939)

Alan Francis ChalmersFAHA (; born 1939) is a British-Australian philosopher of science and associate professor at the University of Sydney.^[1]

Education

Chalmers was born in Bristol, England in 1939, and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at the University of Bristol in 1961, and his Master of Science in physics from the University of Manchester in 1964.

Chalmers alan biography

His PhD on the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell^{[citation needed]} was awarded by the University of London in 1971.

Career

Chalmers went to Australia as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971.

He was a member of the Department of General Philosophy from 1972 to 1986, and from 1986 to 1999 was the head of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney,^[2] where he remains an honorary associate professor.^[3] Since 1999 Chalmers has been a visiting scholar a