Paul Churchland

"The curiosity of Man, and the cunning of his reason, have revealed much of what Nature held hidden."

"In his 1981 article, “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”, Paul Churchland presents several arguments in favor of dropping commonsense psychology that have shaped the modern debat…"

"Your brain is far too complex and mercurial for its behavior to be predicted in any but the broadest outlines or for any but the shortest distances in the future."

"is faced with special difficulties here, since its conception of learning as the manipulation and storage of propositional attitudes founders on the fact that how to formulate, manipulate, and store a…"

"Seeing our common-sense conceptual framework for mental phenomena as a theory brings a simple and unifying organization to most of the major topics in the philosophy of mind."

"You and I have a confidence that most people lack ... We think we can continue to be liberals and still move this forward."

"We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain."

"The basic idea is that cognitive activities are ultimately just activities of the nervous system; and if one wants to understand the activities of the nervous system, then the best way to gain that un…"