Patricia Churchland

Patricia Smith Churchland is a neurophilosopher, now retired from the University of California San Diego, and an Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. She focuses on how discoveries in neuroscience impact traditional ideas about ourselves and how philosophers can usefully collaborate with scientists. She wrote the pioneering book, Neurophilosophy (MIT Press, 1986), and is co-author with T. J. Sejnowski of The Computational Brain (MIT Press, 1992). Her current work focuses on morality and the social brain: Braintrust: What Neuroscience tells us about Morality  (Princeton University Press, 2011) and Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019). She won a MacArthur Prize in 1991, the Rossi Prize for neuroscience in 2008, and the Prose Prize for science for Braintrust.   

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