Patricia Churchland
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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- Born in
- Oliver
- Educated at
- University of PittsburghUniversity of British Columbia
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- 🏆 MacArthur Fellows Program
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1943
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