Paul Montgomery Churchland (born October 21, 1942) is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. After...
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University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is married to the philosopher Paul Churchland. Larissa MacFarquhar, writing for The New Yorker, observed of the philosophical...
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Qualia (section Paul Churchland)
properties that have not yet been entered in the catalog". According to Paul Churchland, Mary might be considered akin to a feral child who suffered extreme...
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materialism. This was a major influence on Patricia and Paul Churchland. As Keeley observes, "[Paul Churchland] has spent much of his career carrying the Feyerabend...
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replies from such philosophers as Daniel Dennett, David Lewis, and Paul Churchland. The thought experiment was originally proposed by Frank Jackson as...
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world which corresponds to our folk psychological concept of belief (Paul Churchland) and formal epistemologists who aim to replace our bivalent notion...
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second edition, published in 2000, contains a foreword by Paul Churchland and Patricia Churchland that places von Neumann's views in the context of science...
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philosophy, from neopragmatism (Richard Rorty) to eliminative materialism (Paul Churchland) to rationalism (Laurence BonJour). Sellars's philosophical heirs also...
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razor and ultimately retracted his advocacy of it in this context. Paul Churchland (1984) states that by itself Occam's razor is inconclusive regarding...
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it to them." The brain simulation reply has been made by Paul Churchland, Patricia Churchland and Ray Kurzweil. Early versions of this argument were put...
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