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Bachelors Philosophy University of British Columbia
Bachelors Philosophy University of Oxford
PhD Philosophy University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, 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 , where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. She is a member of the Board of Trustees Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department, Moscow State University. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 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. 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."

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Patricia Churchland's Published Works

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Published Works

The Computational Brain (1996) (1785)
Neurophilosophy: Toward a unified science of the mind (1989) (695)
Perspectives on cognitive neuroscience. (1988) (484)
Modulating social behavior with oxytocin: How does it work? What does it mean? (2012) (423)
A critique of pure vision (1993) (381)
Brain and cognition (1989) (377)
Problems with measuring peripheral oxytocin: Can the data on oxytocin and human behavior be trusted? (2013) (365)
Could a machine think? (1990) (241)
Putting big data to good use in neuroscience (2014) (237)
Functionalism, Qualia, and Intentionality (1981) (230)
Brain-Wise : Studies in Neurophilosophy (2002) (201)
Brains, Genes, and Primates (2015) (194)
Stalking the wild epistemic engine (1983) (162)
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality (2011) (158)
CONSCIOUSNESS: THE TRANSMUTATION OF A CONCEPT (1983) (155)
The Neural Mechanisms of Moral Cognition: A Multiple-Aspect Approach to Moral Judgment and Decision-Making (2003) (146)
On the Alleged Backwards Referral of Experiences and Its Relevance to the Mind-Body Problem (1981) (144)
Neural representation and neural computation (1990) (141)
Self-Representation in Nervous Systems (2002) (122)
Can Innate, Modular “Foundations” Explain Morality? Challenges for Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory (2011) (121)
Epistemology in the Age of Neuroscience (1987) (121)
The Timing of Sensations: Reply to Libet (1981) (116)
A Perspective on Mind-Brain Research (1980) (112)
Control: conscious and otherwise (2009) (104)
Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness (1994) (91)
On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997 (1998) (89)
Language, Thought, and Information Processing (1980) (83)
GAPS IN PENROSE ' S TOILINGS (1997) (70)
The Mind-Brain Continuum: Sensory Processes (1996) (67)
Intertheoretic reduction: A neuroscientist's field guide (1992) (66)
Filling in: Why Dennett is wrong (1993) (62)
The Churchlands and their critics (1996) (61)
The Impact of Neuroscience on Philosophy (2008) (61)
Neural worlds and real worlds (2002) (60)
Gaps in Penrose's toiling (1995) (54)
Reduction and the neurobiological basis of consciousness. (1988) (48)
When It’s an Error to Mirror (2011) (42)
The Hornswoggle Problem (2022) (38)
Moral decision-making and the brain (2005) (38)
Could a Machine Think?: Classical AI Is Unlikely to Yield Conscious Machines; Systems That Mimic the Brain Might (1994) (34)
Self‐Representation in Nervous Systems (2003) (31)
The Neurobiological Platform for Moral Values (2015) (31)
Content: Semantic and information-theoretic (1983) (30)
Mind-brain reduction: New light from the philosophy of science (1982) (29)
Computational neuroscience (1986) (28)
A neurophilosophical slant on consciousness research. (2005) (27)
Consciousness and the neurosciences: Philosophical and theoretical issues (1995) (26)
Internal states and cognitive theories (1978) (25)
Evolved morality: The biology and philosophy of human conscience (2014) (24)
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Theory of the Mind/Brain (1990) (23)
Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer’s Disease (1992) (23)
Recent work on consciousness: philosophical, theoretical, and empirical. (1997) (23)
Blending computational and experimental neuroscience (2016) (23)
Replies to comments (1986) (23)
Poetry in motion (2007) (23)
Essay (1949) (22)
Brains, Genes, and Primates (2015) (18)
Neurophilosophy: the early years and new directions. (2007) (17)
Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves (2013) (16)
The significance of neuroscience for philosophy (1988) (16)
Inference to the Best Decision (2009) (16)
The Neurobiological Basis of Morality (2011) (15)
Psychological Models and Neural Mechanisms. (1982) (14)
Computation and the brain (1998) (13)
How many angels…? (1981) (11)
The co-evolutionary research ideology (1993) (10)
Brains, lies, and psychological explanations (2009) (10)
Replies from the Churchlands (1996) (10)
The Necessary-and-Sufficient Boondoggle (2007) (9)
What should we expect from a theory of consciousness? (1998) (8)
How do neurons know? (2004) (8)
Do we have free will (2006) (7)
Lamination and Within-Area Integration in the Neocortex (1999) (6)
Neuroscience and psychology: should the labor be divided? (1980) (6)
Dennett' instrumentalism: A frog at the bottom of the mug (1983) (6)
Gaps in Penroses toiling (1995) (5)
Is Determinism Self-Refuting? (2020) (5)
Is the Visual System as Smart as It Looks? (1982) (5)
Brains wide shut (2005) (5)
Agency and Control: The Subcortical Role in Good Decisions (2014) (5)
My behavior made me do it: The uncaused cause of teleological behaviorism (1995) (4)
McCauley's demand for a co-level competitor (2001) (4)
Exploring the Causal Underpinnings of Determination, Resolve, and Will (2013) (4)
Leapfrog over the brain (1987) (4)
ASKING WHAT’S INSIDE THE HEAD: NEUROPHILOSOPHY MEETS THE EXTENDED MIND (2005) (4)
The brain and its self. (2011) (3)
The view from here: The nonsymbolic structure of spatial representation (2001) (3)
The Impact of Social Neuroscience on Moral Philosophy (2018) (3)
Computation in the age of neuroscience (1993) (3)
Brain science and the self. (2002) (3)
Neurophilosophy: an introduction and overview. Preface. (2007) (3)
Neuroscience: Looking-glass wars (2014) (3)
Recent work on consciousness: philosophical, theoretical, and empirical (1997) (2)
Neurophilosophy: an introduction and overview (2007) (2)
The View from Here: Spatial Representations (2001) (2)
Patricia Churchland - Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality (2012) (2)
Fodor on language learning (1978) (2)
Psychology and the study of the mind-brain: A reply to Carr, Brown and Sudevan (1984) (2)
Innovative computer devices are being inspired by the results of research on the brains of nature's creatures (1992) (2)
Clark's connectionist defense of folk psychology (1996) (2)
Is Neuroscience Relevant to Philosophy (1990) (2)
Mind , Mathematics and the Ignorabimusstreit (2007) (2)
What They Don't know Might Help Them: A Demonstration of Subtle Social Inference from Mimicry (2013) (2)
What are beliefs?: Patricia S. Churchland and Paul M. Churchland (2012) (2)
Psychology and Medical Decision-Making (2009) (2)
The virtuosity of the sensory cortex and the perils of common sense (1978) (2)
Free Will Matters (2011) (1)
4. Cooperating and Trusting (2011) (1)
Morality and the Brain: The Right Hemisphere and Doing Right (2020) (1)
Aristotelian neurophilosophy for big children (2012) (1)
Corrigendum to Brains, Genes, and Primates [Neuron 86, 617-631; May 6, 2015] (2015) (1)
Take It Apart and See How It Runs (1996) (1)
Introduction: Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer’s Disease (1992) (1)
Neuropsychological Approaches State of the Art Report (1982) (1)
2. Brain-Based Values (2011) (1)
The Development of Pre-word Reading Skills Is Reviewed by Reading Education: Foundations for a Literate Computational Neuroscience (1)
Book review (2004) (0)
Free Will (2021) (0)
Bio-Ethics Bites (2014) (0)
Morality Special: Right and wrong in the brain (2010) (0)
High-level affairs (1988) (0)
7. Not as a Rule (2018) (0)
Barnes, J.(1987) Early Greek Philosophy, London: Penguin Books. Blackburn, S.(1994) The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Blakemore, C. and Greenfield, S.(eds)(1987) Mindwaves. Thoughts on Intelligence, Identity and Consciousness, Oxford: Basil Blackwell (1999) (0)
Dorcas Cummings Lecture. (2014) (0)
The First Neuroethics Meeting: Then and Now (2017) (0)
The significance of neuroscience for philosophy. (1988) (0)
A neuroscientist's field guide In W. Bechtel, P. Mandik, J. Mundale & RS Stufflebeam (2001) (0)
Symposium: Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind in Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (1987) (0)
Why do we care? (2019) (0)
Memory and Brain. Larry R. Squire (1989) (0)
A Conversation with... Patricia Churchland (1996) (0)
Sociological Fault Lines (2020) (0)
Neuron Perspective Brains , Genes , and Primates (2015) (0)
The Details Are Being Worked Out (2014) (0)
Social Relevance (2021) (0)
Pat Churchland and What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality (2012) (0)
4 The View from Here: The Nonsymbolic Structure of Spatial (2001) (0)
How Quine Perceives Perceptual Similarity (1976) (0)
Penrose's Toilings (1995) (0)
Eliminative Materialism (2021) (0)
Governing Board Symposium The Biology of Language in the 21st Century (2011) (0)
The Brain and Its Self1 (2011) (0)
Summing Up (2021) (0)
Mind and Brain: The Many-Faceted Problems. Selected Readings From the Proceedings of the International Conferences on the Unity of the Sciences.John Eccles (1984) (0)
Roots of right and wrong (2010) (0)
Ojemann's data: Provocative but mysterious (1983) (0)
Chapter 1 Moral decision-making and the brain (2005) (0)
A Conversation with Patricia Churchland. (2014) (0)
Reviews-On the Contrary: Critical Essays 1987-1997 (2000) (0)
Neuron NeuroView The Impact of Neuroscience on Philosophy (2010) (0)
Concluding and Beyond (2018) (0)
Logical Form and Ontological Decisions (1975) (0)
Introduction: Neuropbilosophy and Alzheimer's Disease (1992) (0)
Prosocial primates for benevolent biosocieties (2012) (0)
6. Skills for a Social Life (2011) (0)
8. Recent work on consciousness (2003) (0)
8. Religion and Morality (2011) (0)
Topics in Integrative Neuroscience: Neuroscience, choice and responsibility (2008) (0)
Against ignorance (1987) (0)
Summer books (2011) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1985) (0)
3. Caring and Caring for (2011) (0)
Commentary/Dennett: Intentional systems in cognitive ethology (2014) (0)
Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross, "Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment." Reviewed by (1982) (0)
The signilTcance of neurosdence for philosophy (2002) (0)
TURNING NATURAL (2007) (0)
Playing with Brains (2020) (0)
Representing the World (2018) (0)
Foreword to the Second Edition (2017) (0)
Connecting Horizontally (2020) (0)
5. Networking: Genes, Brains, and Behavior (2011) (0)
Grush Computation and the Brain 1 Computation and the Brain (1997) (0)
Touching a Nerve (2021) (0)
Philosophy of Brain (2020) (0)
Plasticity: Cells, Circuits, Brains, and Behavior (2018) (0)

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