Patricia Churchland

Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Founder, Neurophilosophy; B.Phil. Oxford; President's Professor of Philosophy emerita University of California San Diego, Adjunct, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, MacArthur Fellow 1992-1997; Rossi Prize in Neuroscience 2008; Honorary Doctor of Law University of Alberta 2007, Hyman Prize in Neuroethics 2021; website patriciachurchland.com
Recent books: : The Origins of Moral Intuition (Norton 2020); Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality (Princeton U. Press 2011)
First book: Neurophilosophy: Towards a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain MIT Press 1989)

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