Patricia S. Churchland, the philosopher and neuroscientist, is sitting at a cafe on the Upper West Side, explaining the vacuousness, as she sees it, of a vast swath of contemporary moral philosophy.

Yet over the years, Churchland has received due recognition for avoiding the traps that lie in each extreme. She was helped by the early endorsement of Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of the ...

As declarative sentences go, this one from retired UC San Diego philosophy professor Patricia Churchland seems harmless enough: “I am who I am because my brain is what it is.” Harmless until ...

An exploration of the science behind our morality from philosopher Patricia Churchland is illuminating and grounded, finds Nicholas A. Christakis.

In “Conscience,” Patricia Churchland recounts a conversation with Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, in which he laments moral philosophers’ focus on reason.

Patricia Churchland is a philosopher who teaches at U.C. San Diego. The issue between them is: How much can we know about the universe? iStockphoto.com ...

In her new book, Conscience, Churchland argues that mammals — humans, yes, but also monkeys and rodents and so on — feel moral intuitions because of how our brains developed over the course of ...

Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. ByJagran Josh. Jan 8, 2013, 16:27 IST.

Science and philosophy have to go hand in hand, says neuro-philosopher Patricia Churchland, arguing in this talk that the nature of the mind cannot be understood simply by introspection.