Patricia Churchland Quotes on Mind
Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher, professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego, and one of the founders of the field she named neurophilosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Patricia Churchland on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Patricia Churchland:
“Folk psychology is to neuroscience what folk physics is to physics.”
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Attributed to Patricia Churchland:
“There is no philosophy of mind that does not take the brain seriously.”
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Attributed to Patricia Churchland:
“The self is not an illusion, but it is a process of the nervous system, not an inhabitant of it.”
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Attributed to Patricia Churchland:
“Conscience is what it is to care about anything at all.”
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“Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was “the software, not the hardware”, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.”
Introductory message at her homepage at the University of California, San Diego , 2013