Birth Name:

Patricia Churchland

Female

Birth Date:

Fri, Jul 16, 1943

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Oliver, British Columbia, Canada

Age:

81

Zodiac Sign:

Cancer

Astrology Data:

Sun

23°

Can

21'

About Patricia Churchland

Patricia Smith Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. She is a member of the Board of Trustees Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department, Moscow State University. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and Somerville College, Oxford, she taught philosophy at the 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 couple that: "Their work is so similar that they are sometimes discussed, in journals and books, as one person."

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Personal Homepage

• Interviewed on NOUS the podcast 'On How We Evolved A Conscience'

• "Philosophy of Brain - A Conversation with Patricia Churchland", Ideas Roadshow, 2014

• Pat Churchland interviews with Philosophy Bites on Self Control, on Eliminative Materialism, and on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality (audio)

• How your brain invents morality Patricia Churchland interviewed by Sigal Samuel on 'her theory of how we evolved a conscience' for Vox (2019).

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Patricia Churchland: Sun 23 Cancer, Moon 13 Capricorn, Mercury 21 Cancer, Venus 7 Virgo, Mars 6 Taurus, Jupiter 3 Leo, Saturn 20 Gemini, Uranus 7 Gemini, Neptune 29 Virgo, Pluto 6 Leo, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Semi Square Uranus, Mercury Semi Square Venus, Mercury Semi Sextile Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Uranus, Venus Trine Mars, Venus Square Uranus, Venus Semi Sextile Pluto, Mars Square Jupiter, Mars Semi Square Saturn, Mars Semi Sextile Uranus, Mars Square Pluto, Jupiter Semi Square Saturn, Jupiter Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Conjunct Pluto, Saturn Semi Square Pluto, Uranus Sextile Pluto

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