Patricia Churchland

Patricia Churchland

university teacher
philosopher
neuroscientist
ethics
🇨🇦Canada
✝️Catholicism
humanism

Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher 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.

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1943 – Present
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Background

Born in
Oliver
Educated at
University of PittsburghUniversity of British Columbia
Awards
🏆 MacArthur Fellows Program

Timeline

  • 1943

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