Patricia Churchland

ISBN 9781400838080 ^[31]

Touching A Nerve: The Self As Brain. (2013) W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0393058321

Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition. (2019) W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-1324000891

As co-author or editor

• The Computational Brain . (1992) Patricia S. Churchland and T. J. Sejnowski. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer's Disease. (1992) Edited by Y. Christen and Patricia S. Churchland. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• The Mind-Brain Continuum (1996). Edited by R.R. Llinás and Patricia S. Churchland: The MIT Press.
• On the Contrary: Critical Essays 1987-1997 . (1998). Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

See also

• American philosophy
• Eliminative materialism
• Neurophilosophy
• List of American philosophers
• Materialism
• Monism
• Philosophy of mind
• Reductionism
• Scientism

References

1. Dummett, Michael (2010). The Nature and Future of Philosophy. Columbia University Press. p. 33. A small number of analytic philosophers–notoriously the two Churchlands–treat the absence of any detailed correspondence [between specific mental occurrences and particular events in the brain] as an objection not to the thesis of mind/brain identity, but to reliance on our familiar mental constructs.
2. Smith, Quentin (1997). Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language. Yale University Press. pp. 93–94. [The postpositivist physicalism of philosophers such as the Churchlands and linguistic essentialism were the] "...two main movements of analytic philosophy of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s; no other analytic movement even compares with them in influence and acceptance."
3. Cavanna, Andrea E. (2014-09-30). Consciousness: Theories in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind. Nani, Andrea. Heidelberg. p. 9. ISBN   9783662440889. OCLC   892914346.
4. "Salk Institute: Adjunct Faculty". Salk Institute. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
5. "People". Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department. Retrieved 15 September 2014.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
6. "2015 Fellows and Their Affiliations at the Time of the Election" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
7. Churchland, Patricia. "Curriculum Vitae". Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
8. Larissa MacFarquhar (February 12, 2007). "TWO HEADS A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem". NewYorker.com. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
9. "University of Alberta - Fall Convocation 2007". University of Alberta. 22 November 2007. Archived from the original (web page) on 28 November 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
10. "From the Engine of Reason to the Seat of the Soul: A Brain-Wise Conversation" (video). The Science Studio. The Science Network. 26 June 2006. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
11. "Fellows Of Note - Major Awards". Princeton, NJ: The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
12. "Faculty of Medicine - Physiology". University of Manitoba - Department of Physiology. Archived from the original (web page) on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
13. "Social Science Only". A Community of Scholars. Princeton, NJ: Institute for Advanced Study. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2011. Churchland, Patricia Smith [V] SocSci 1982-83
14. Churchland, Paul M. (19 January 2007). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). UCSD Philosophy Department. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
15. "CNL - People" (web page). Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. The Salk Institute. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
16. "Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival" (web page and video). The Science Network. 5–7 November 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
17. "Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0" (web page and video). The Science Network. 31 October – 2 November 2007.
18. "Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark" (web page and video). The Science Network. 3–6 October 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
19. "Anne Churchland - Assistant Professor". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Archived from the original (web page) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
20. "Movement Generation Laboratory - Mark Churchland". Columbia University. 2 April 2013. Archived from the original (web page) on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
21. Bannister, Andy (2015-07-17). The Atheist Who Didn't Exist: Or: the dreadful consequences of bad arguments. Monarch Books. p. 25. ISBN   978-0-85721-611-3. ...another atheist writer, the philosopher Patricia Churchland...
22. Todd, Douglas (February 4, 2012). "Pat Churchland fights for supremacy of the brain". Vancouver Sun . Retrieved 2021-05-04. When I asked her how she would define herself on the spiritual-philosophical spectrum, however, she surprisingly answered: "Pantheist," adding "I love nature." Pantheists are defined as people who view the natural world as the absolute, as the equivalent of God."
23. Todd, Douglas (February 11, 2012). "B.C. academic star fights for beliefs". Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia). p. 44.
24. "NOUS: Patricia Churchland on How We Evolved A Conscience". nousthepodcast.libsyn.com. Archived from the original on 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
25. Warburton, Nigel; Edmonds, David (2010). "Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism" (audio). Philosophy Bites. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
26. McGinn, Colin; Churchland, Patricia. "Of Brains & Minds: An Exchange | Patricia Churchland".{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
27. "MacArthur Fellows List, "C"". The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Archived from the original (web page) on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
28. "International Academy of Humanism - Humanist Laureates". Council For Secular Humanism. Archived from the original (web page) on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
29. "Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award". University of California, Merced. 4 May 2011. Archived from the original (web page) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
30. Leiter, Brian (7 October 2011). "Two Philosophers Elected Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society". Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
31. "Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells us about Morality | Patricia S. Churchland". The Montreal Review . September 2011. Retrieved 2022-06-23.

Further reading

• The Churchlands and Their Critics. (1996) Robert N. McCauley. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell
• On the Churchlands. (2004) William Hirstein. Florence, Kentucky: Thomson Wadsworth

External links

• Personal Homepage
• Interviewed on NOUS the podcast 'On How We Evolved A Conscience' Archived 2019-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
• "Philosophy of Brain - A Conversation with Patricia Churchland" Archived 2019-08-22 at the Wayback Machine , Ideas Roadshow, 2014
• Pat Churchland interviews Archived 2019-04-14 at the Wayback Machine with Philosophy Bites on Self Control, on Eliminative Materialism, and on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality (audio)
• How your brain invents morality Patricia Churchland interviewed by Sigal Samuel on 'her theory of how we evolved a conscience' for Vox (2019).

Patricia Churchland
Born	Patricia Smith (1943-07-16) July 16, 1943 (age 82) Oliver, British Columbia, Canada
Spouse	Paul Churchland
Education
Alma mater	University of British Columbia University of Pittsburgh Somerville College, Oxford

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