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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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Physical/Psychic, philosophy: involves the question to which domain - the physical, ultimately biological, or the mental domain - a subject of research is to be counted to, is the subject of discussion in various disciplines such as philosophy of mind, neuro-philosophy or psychology. See also identity theory, naturalism, physicalism, functionalism, naturalism._____________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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Chalmers, David | Physical/Psychic | Chalmers | |
Churchland, Patricia | Physical/Psychic | Churchland | |
Davidson, Donald | Physical/Psychic | Davidson | |
Frith, Chris | Physical/Psychic | Frith | |
Kripke, Saul A. | Physical/Psychic | Kripke | |
Nagel, Thomas | Physical/Psychic | Nagel | |
Rorty, Richard | Physical/Psychic | Rorty | |
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