Paul Churchland | |
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| Born | Paul Montgomery Churchland October 21, 1942 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
| Spouse | Patricia Churchland |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilfrid Sellars |
Main interests | Neurophilosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, epistemology |
Notable ideas | Eliminative materialism, word–world relations[1] |
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.