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Patricia Churchland - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments |
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Patricia Churchland (1943), Canadian-American philosopher of mind and neurophilosopher. Her major works include Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain (1986), The Computational Brain (1992), and Mind-Brain Continuum: Sensory Processes (1996). Her fields of specialization are neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of neuroscience.
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Concept: a concept is a term for an entity with certain properties. The properties of an object correspond to the features of the concept. These concept features are necessary in contrast to the properties of an individual object, which are always contingent._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |
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