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 ...

Churchland echoes Wittgenstein’s complaint that “philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” For her it is philosophers themselves who often cast 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 u… ...

By Patricia S. Churchland 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?

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

How your brain invents morality Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.

Churchland’s plea of ignorance as to the morality of the 19th-century Hindu practice of forcing widows to be burned with their deceased husbands contrasts oddly with her moralistic condemnation ...

Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind.

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.

How your brain invents morality Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.