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Paul Churchland (born October 21 1942) is a Canadian philosopher noted for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California San Diego where he held the Valtz Chair of Philosophy and a joint appointment with the Cognitive Science Faculty and the Institute for Neural Computation. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969 under the direction of Wilfrid Sellars.

birth date
1942-10-21
birth place
Vancouver, Canada
era
Contemporary philosophy
influenced by
Karl Popper, Patricia Churchland, Paul Feyerabend, Willard Van Orman Quine, Wilfrid Sellars
main interest
Artificial intelligence, Epistemology, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of science, Neurophilosophy
notableIdea
Eliminative materialism
philosophicalSchool
Analytic philosophy
region
Western philosophy

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