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| Patricia Churchland - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| 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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| Neurophilosophy: the expression is based on an influential book by Patricia Churchland (P. Churchland, Neurophilosophy - Toward a Unified Science of Mind-Brain, 1986). It describes approaches to explain the relationship between neurophysiological processes and mental states and phenomena. See also psychology, mind body problem, folk psychology._____________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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| Churchland, Patricia S. | Neurophilosophy | Churchland | |
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