Patricia Churchland
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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]
Patricia Churchland | |
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Born | Patricia Smith (1943-07-16) July 16, 1943 (age 80) 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 |