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| Born | Patricia Smith July 16, 1943 Oliver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia University of Pittsburgh Somerville College, Oxford |
| Spouse | Paul Churchland |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy[1][2] |
Main interests | Neurophilosophy Philosophy of mind Philosophy of science Medical and environmental ethics |
Notable ideas | Neurophilosophy, Eliminative Materialism |
Patricia Smith Churchland (born 16 July 1943)[3] is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher[1][2] noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989.[4] She is a member of the Board of Trustees Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department, Moscow State University.[5] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[6] Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and Somerville College, Oxford, she taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is married to the philosopher Paul Churchland.[7] Larissa MacFarquhar, writing for The New Yorker, observed of the philosophical couple that: "Their work is so similar that they are sometimes discussed, in journals and books, as one person."[8]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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."
- ^ Cavanna, Andrea E. (2014-09-30). Consciousness: Theories in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind. Nani, Andrea. Heidelberg. p. 9. ISBN 9783662440889. OCLC 892914346.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Salk Institute: Adjunct Faculty". Salk Institute. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
- ^ "People". Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department. Retrieved 15 September 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "2015 Fellows and Their Affiliations at the Time of the Election" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ Churchland, Patricia. "Curriculum Vitae". Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
- ^ Larissa MacFarquhar (February 12, 2007). "TWO HEADS A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem". NewYorker.com. Retrieved May 14, 2017.