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	Patricia Churchland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943) is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego since 1984.
		Educated at the University of British Columbia University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oxford (B.Phil.) she taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969-1984.
		She is associated with a school of thought called eliminativism or eliminative materialism, which argues that folk psychology concepts such as belief, free will, and consciousness will likely need to be revised as science understand more about the nature of brain function.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patricia_Churchland (306 words)

	Paul Churchland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Churchland (born 1942) is a philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego.
		He is the husband of philosopher Patricia Churchland and particularly noted for his work in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy.
		He is particularly associated with a school of thought called eliminative materialism which argues that folk psychology concepts such as belief and desire have no coherent or definable brain activity associated with them; we can therefore expect them to be replaced by concepts that have yet to be articulated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Churchland (194 words)

	SRB Editorial 1(1)
		In her final section, Churchland explores the tensor network theory of brain function according to which "By spatially organizing themselves into maps, and by layering so that the maps are in suitable register, neurons might, with utmost simplicity, execute any 2-D to 2-D transformation whatsoever" (442-3).
		If, as Churchland argues of "neurophilosophy," text semiotics indeed, all subsets of semiotics which deal with narrative must be both monist and materialist and must be grounded in "a unified theory of the mindbrain" (3), then our task is to generate new models of text-processing and of discourse analysis mapped onto neurosemiotic and neurophilosophical schemes.
		Churchland's ecological and ethological claims are grounded in the neurophilosophical principle, which she traces to La Mettrie (1748), that there is "no fundamental difference between humans and animals" (16).
	www.univie.ac.at /Wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/neurophil.html (1379 words)

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		Churchland does not mean that a reductionist research strategy per se implies the adoption of a purely bottom-up strategy; nor does she mean that there is something disreputable about high level descriptions as such.
		Many scientists, Churchland included, view the hierarchy of levels as a constellation of structures which are ordered from macro- to micro-entities; they see it as a hierarchy of part-whole entities in which the parts at a certain level become wholes at the underlying level.
		Interestingly, Churchland also criticizes Dennett for his insufficient response to critics who deny the pre-eminent status of linguistic activity: "The heart of the complaints is that Dennett wrongly assumes that performance is all that needs explaining—that explaining reports of conscious experience is tantamount to explaining conscious experience itself.
	www.iapche.org /GlasInsert.htm (11218 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Churchland, Patricia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to Churchland, the best way to address issues in the philosophy of mind is through the empirical study of the brain.
		Churchland began her academic career at the University of Manitoba, first as assistant professor, and then as associate and full professor (1969-1984).
		From early on, Churchland has specialized in the philosophy of mind, of science, and especially of neuroscience, in which latter field she has become most noted for her book, Neurophilosophy (1986).
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~philos/MindDict/churchlandps.html (163 words)

	Anthony Landreth reviews Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy by Patricia Smith Churchland
		Churchland warns us to be wary of a priori methods in philosophy, since, from a Darwinian perspective, there is little reason to expect that we have come prepackaged with the conceptual resources sufficient for an armchair discovery of natural law.
		Churchland appears to endorse both accounts, and yet they are quite different in the way that she describes them.
		In Paul Churchland’s (1996) state space account of neural representation, the content of a neural representation is defined in terms of its location in a multi-dimensional space, where the parameters of the space could be defined according to, e.g., stimulus features.
	www.human-nature.com /nibbs/03/landreth.html (1788 words)

	Patricia Churchland Article, PatriciaChurchland Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Patricia Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a philosopher working at the University of California, SanDiego.
		She is the wife of philosopher Paul Churchland andparticularly noted for her work in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy.
		She is particularly associated with a school of thought called eliminativism or eliminativematerialism, which argues that folk psychology concepts such as belief and desire have no coherent ordefinable brain activity associated with them and should therefore be rejected asscientific concepts.
	www.anoca.org /paul/mind/patricia_churchland.html (176 words)

	LM1003 Lecture 21 Handout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Paul Churchland, Patricia Churchland, Stephen Stich and others have denied that there are such things as propositional attitudes (beliefs, desires etc.).
		Instead Churchland suggests that reduction typically consists in being able to deduce, from the new theory, a set of theorems that is relevantly isomorphic with the old theory.
		Churchland argues that FP is a theory that we use in trying to explain and predict the behaviour of organisms (including ourselves).
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~sjp7/LM1003/handout_21.htm (1326 words)

	Sutton review of Churchlands
		But the bitter criticism and scorn heaped on Paul and Patricia Churchland's work for some twenty years now honourably marks their rare ambition in fusing speculative 'neurophilosophy' with sustained attacks on the integrity of our 'folk' notions of self, consciousness, rationality, and mind.
		This is plausible enough, and Paul Churchland rejects the scientistic authoritarianism which critics ascribe to him through an 'anti-utopian' philosophy of science, by which the neurocognitivism he enthusiastically embraces is not a Final Theory but just another fallible, pragmatic, but promising way of carving and recarving world and mind into new categories.
		The Churchlands claim to 'embrace' the point that consciousness is constituted not just by intrinsic facts about an isolated individual, but also by 'the rich matrix of relations it bears to the other humans, practices, and institutions of its embedding culture'.
	www.phil.mq.edu.au /staff/jsutton/Churchlands.htm (1104 words)

	Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Churchland, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, is considered a leading authority in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness.
		She is co-author with Paul Churchland of On the Contrary, Critical Essays, 1987-1997, and has written or edited five other books as well as many articles on philosophy and the nervous system.
		The Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Minor is a selection of courses in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola that introduces undergraduates to the challenges of the study of the nervous system as the organ of behavior.
	www.luc.edu /news/media/releases/1998/november/church.html (225 words)

	The Luminous Room: An Argument Against Strong EM
		Churchland systematically constructs analogs of ten arguments (seven of which belong to Searle) supporting the irreducibility of light in an effort to render this family of arguments as problematic as possible.
		In fact, in the final analysis Churchland is free to stick to his guns because it begins to look as though he was right on target when he fired his first volley six years ago.
		Churchland criticism is that (3) is only plausible to those who are ignorant of the details of EM theory and, as such, remain slaves to their common-sense intuitions.
	www.ptproject.ilstu.edu /luminous.htm (2740 words)

	Science And Consciousness Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Churchland: The nature of knowing in nervous systems must be studied at many levels, from molecules and synapses to the whole organism in its environment.
		Churchland: I share the hunch that coherence in timing of neural activity is a good place to begin looking for answers regarding phenomenological coherence.
		Patricia Smith Churchland is the UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego.
	www.sci-con.org /articles/20040301.html (2134 words)

	Philosopher-neuroscientist Patricia Churchland here: First lecture in series on mind brain links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Patricia Churchland, prominent philosopher and neuroscientist, will deliver a lecture for the Assembly Series titled "What Can We Expect From a Theory of Consciousness?" at 11 a.m.
		Churchland is a professor of philosophy at the University of California at San Diego, where she specializes in the philosophy of science, neuroscience and the mind, as well as in medical and environmental ethics.
		The central focus of her research has been the exploration and development of the idea that the mind is the brain, that in order to understand the mind it is necessary to understand the brain.
	record.wustl.edu /archive/1999/01-28-99/articles/churchland.html (274 words)

	Encyclopedia: Patricia Churchland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Paul Churchland is a philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego.
		Philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, and consciousness.
		The Computational Brain is a book written by Patricia S. Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski and published in 1992 by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ISBN 0-262-03188-4.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Patricia-Churchland (702 words)

	Can Neurobiology Teach us Anything about Consciousness? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Churchland, P. (1994) "Betty Crocker's theory of the mind: A review of The Rediscovery of the Mind, by John Searle." London Review of Books, May, 1994.
		Churchland, P. "Reduction and the neurobiological basis of consciousness." In: Consciousness in Contemporary Science.
		See Paul Churchland's characterization and defense of this view in (1981), reprinted in P. Churchland 1989.
	www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~harnad/Papers/Py104/church.neuro.html (9018 words)

	Free Inquiry: The neurophilosophy of Patricia Smith Churchland. (University of California philosophy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		University of California philosophy professor Patricia Smith Churchland believes that data from neuroscience and experimental psychology are imposing powerful limitations on philosophical notions on the nature of consciousness.
		Churchland stresses that morality and ethical decision-making involves a whole lot more than emotionless, unfeeling and purely rational thought.
		Pat Churchland is professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and a humanist laureate of the Academy of Humanism.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:17524250&refid=ink_tptd_mag (165 words)

	CHURCHLAND, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 051022
		Examines Churchland's theories of mind and body, dualism, behaviorism, identity theory, functionalism and materialism.
		Matter and Consciousness is Churchland's attempt to make us see that philosophy may most accurately be studied only if we keep our knowledge of it's theories and definitions current and only if we discard theories which become impractical in the modern world.
		Churchland, in his preface, says his aim at writing a compact modern philosophy book is primarily to aid the newcomer..."
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=churchland (526 words)

	Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Churchland might insist that by "luminescence" he means something quite independent of experience, which physical accounts still do not explain: but then the obvious reply is that there is no good reason to believe in luminescence in the first place.
		Churchland is also right to note that it is not always obvious just where experience is present and where it is not, especially in fringe cases.
		Churchland's point would be a relevant rebuttal to an argument that rested on it, or to an argument from ignorance, but my argument is nothing of the sort.
	consc.net /papers/moving.html (21276 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A basic endeavor of Professor Churchland is to eventually in some such way equate consciousness with some part of the brain.
		Churchland's expressive style makes the issues available to anyone interested in the subjects of belief, behaviour, "free will" and how we deal with them.
		Churchland has adapted an effective trove of illustrative material to enhance her excellent prose.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/026253200X (2605 words)

	Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy
		Philosophical purists will criticize Churchland for refusing to engage the philosophical "tradition" on its own terms, i.e., she refuses to stick her head in the sand and theorize as if neuroscience and psychology didn't exist.
		Rather, what Churchland has done is invert this traditional philosphical stance : survey the scientific results on topics philosophers have wanted to claim as their own: consciousness, free will, the self, human knowledge, religion, and the like (each gets a chapter in her...
		Churchland offers the most comprehensive and understandable overview of these challenges currently in print.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_026253200X.html (638 words)

	Neuroscience Update
		Though Churchland is trained in philosophy and is not herself a hands-on (laboratory-trained) neurologist and certainly not a neurosurgeon (as was Dr. Meyers before his ‘retirement’), she seems to have well absorbed what such people have to teach; at the suggestion of her husband, Paul M. Churchland, also a noted philosopher of science
		Patricia Churchland sharply eyes difficulties with the term “reductionism.” In a fine aside, she says, “Sometimes it is used as a synonym for ‘behaviorism’ (which is a case of the vague hounding the vague) or as a synonym for such sins as ‘materialism,’ ‘bourgeois capitalism,’ ‘experimentalism,’ ‘vivisectionism,’ ‘communism,’ ‘militarism,’ ‘sociobiology,’ and ‘atheism’.
		I deem it the case that any neuroscientific attempt to describe/explain the ‘mind’/brain must be inescapably reductionist in the sense that Patricia Churchland uses that term: the explaining of one domain of discourse in terms of another.
	www.geocities.com /ResearchTriangle/System/8870/books/RPPNU.html (9725 words)

	Paul Churchland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Paul Churchland is a (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher working at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of California, San Diego) University of California, San Diego.
		He is the husband of philosopher (Click link for more info and facts about Patricia Churchland) Patricia Churchland and particularly noted for his work in (Click link for more info and facts about philosophy of mind) philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paul_churchland.htm (202 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The choice of topics is timely, and Churchland does a good job (although understandably she presents mostly theories in accord with her views and what she thinks is really important) of presenting the main theories and keeping them clear even when omitting certain technical details.
		Churchland has done it again, and although much work remains to be done, given that the mind is seen by some as the last standing mystery, the progress made for a moment brings back confidence in our ability to understand these issues...finally.
		Rather, what Churchland has done is invert this traditional philosphical stance : survey the scientific results on topics philosophers have wanted to claim as their own: consciousness, free will, the self, human knowledge, religion, and the like (each gets a chapter in her book).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/026253200X?v=glance (3611 words)

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