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A neuroscientist's field guide In W. Bechtel, P. Mandik, J. Mundale & RS StufflebeamIn William P. Bechtel, Pete Mandik, Jennifer Mundale & Robert S. Stufflebeam (eds.), Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader, Blackwell. pp. 419--430. 2001.
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15The virtuosity of the sensory cortex and the perils of common senseBehavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (3): 350-351. 1978.
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86On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997 (edited book)MIT Press. 1998.This collection was prepared in the belief that the most useful and revealing of anyone's writings are often those shorter essays penned in conflict with...
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332Recent work on consciousness: Philosophical, theoretical, and empiricalIn Naoyuki Osaka (ed.), Neural Basis of Consciousness, John Benjamins. pp. 49--123. 2003.
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80“Neuroscience is Relevant for Philosophy”Problemos (88): 176-186. 2015.This is an interview with Professor Patricia S. Churchland. It covers themes such as eliminative materialism, folk psychology, neurophilosophy, the relationship between philosophy and science, moral norms as well as the criticism of contemporary analytic philosophy.
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23Introduction: Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer's DiseaseIn Y. Christen & P.S. Churchland (eds.), Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer's Disease, Springer Verlag. pp. 1--4. 1992.
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The view from here: The nonsymbolic structure of spatial representationIn João Branquinho (ed.), The Foundations of Cognitive Science, Oxford University Press Uk. 2001.
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50From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case against BeliefPhilosophical Review 94 (3): 418. 1985.
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504As neuroscience uncovers these and other mechanisms regulating choices and social behaviour, we cannot help but wonder whether anyone truly chooses anything (though see "Is the universe deterministic?"). As a result, profound questions about responsibility are inescapable, not just regarding criminal justice, but in the day-to-day business of life. Given that, I suggest that free will, as traditionally understood, needs modification. Because of its importance in society, any description of free …Read more
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186Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness?Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 67 (4): 23-40. 1994.
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259Neural representation and neural computationIn L. Nadel (ed.), Neural Connections, Mental Computations, Mit Press. pp. 343-382. 1989.
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23Is the Visual System as Smart as It Looks?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.Irvin Rock's hypothesis that certain stages of perceptual processing resemble problem solving in cognition is contrasted to some recent work in computer vision (Marr, Ullman) which tries to reduce intelligence in perception to computational organization. The focal example is subjective contours which Marr thought could be handled by computational modules without descending control, and which Rock thinks are the outcome of intelligent processing.
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78Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/BrainPhilosophical Review 97 (4): 573. 1988.
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64The Necessary-and-Sufficient BoondoggleAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (1): 54-55. 2007.No abstract
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14Discussion: The timing of sensations: Reply to LibetPhilosophy of Science 48 (September): 492-497. 1981.
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4Replies to comments to symposium on Patricia Smith Churchland's neurophilosophyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 29 (June): 241-272. 1986.
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5Moral decision-making and the brainIn Judy Illes (ed.), Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy, Oxford University Press Uk. 2005.
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99Word and ObjectMIT Press. 1960.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is asocial art.
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351What Should We Expect From a Theory of Consciousness?In H. Jasper, L. Descarries, V. Castellucci & S. Rossignol (eds.), Consciousness: At the Frontiers of Neuroscience, Lippincott-raven. pp. 19-32. 1973.Within the domain of philosophy, it is not unusual to hear the claim that most questions about the nature of consciousness are essentially and absolutely beyond the scope of science, no matter how science may develop in the twenty-first century. Some things, it is pointed out, we shall never _ever_ understand, and consciousness is one of them (Vendler 1994, Swinburne 1994, McGinn 1989, Nagel 1994, Warner 1994). One line of reasoning assumes that consciousness is the manifestation of a distinctly…Read more
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