Paul Churchland

Paul Churchland
Born
Paul Montgomery Churchland

(1942-10-21) October 21, 1942 (age 81)
Alma materUniversity of Pittsburgh
SpousePatricia Churchland
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh
Doctoral advisorWilfrid Sellars
Main interests
Neurophilosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, epistemology
Notable ideas
Eliminative materialism, word–world relations[1]
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Paul Montgomery Churchland (born October 21, 1942) is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under Wilfrid Sellars (1969), Churchland rose to the rank of full professor at the University of Manitoba before accepting the Valtz Family Endowed Chair in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and joint appointments in that institution's Institute for Neural Computation and on its Cognitive Science Faculty.

As of February 2017, Churchland is recognised as Professor Emeritus at the UCSD, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Moscow State University. Churchland is the husband of philosopher Patricia Churchland, with whom he collaborates closely.

  1. ^ Paul Churchland, "Conceptual progress and word/world relations: In search of the essence of natural kinds", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15(1):1–17 (1985).

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