Paul Churchland

Paul Montgomery Churchland born October 21, 1942 is the Canadian philosopher call for his studies in neurophilosophy as living as a philosophy of mind. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under Wilfrid Sellars 1969, Churchland rose to the vintage of full professor at the University of Manitoba ago accepting the Valtz line Endowed Chair in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego UCSD together with a joint appointments in that institution's Institute for Neural Computation in addition to on its Cognitive Science Faculty.

As of February 2017, Churchland is recognised as Professor Emeritus at the – ].

Written works

Professor Churchland has authored several books in philosophy, which construct been translated into many languages. His working are as follows:

His book Matter and Consciousness has been frequently and extensively reprinted. Both Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind and A Neurocomputational Perspective have also been reprinted.

Professor Churchland has calculation a number of published articles, some of which have been translated into other languages, including several that have had a substantial affect in philosophy.[] Essays which have been reprinted include:[]