Patricia Churchland

Patricia Smith Churchland is a Professor emerita of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Her research focuses on how discoveries in neuroscience impact traditional philosophical ideas. She is author of the pioneering book, Neurophilosophy (MIT Press 1986), and co-author with T. J. Sejnowski of The Computational Brain (MIT 1992). Her current work focuses on morality and the social brain; Braintrust: What Neuroscience tells us about Morality (2011 Princeton U P). Touching a Nerve, published by Norton in 2013, portrays how to get comfortable with this fact: I am what I am because my brain is as it is. In June 2019, her latest book was released – Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition. She has been president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and won a MacArthur Prize in 1991, the Rossi Prize for neuroscience in 2008, and the Prose Prize for science for the book, Braintrust. She was chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of California San Diego from 2000-2007.

Her website is http://patriciachurchland.com

Extended interviews can be found on The Science Network www.tsn.org, on Serious Science, http://serious-science.org/?s=Churchlandand, Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8o-yjZePc, on Philosophy Bites. http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com