퍼트리샤 처칠랜드

소개

퍼트리샤 스미스 처칠랜드(영어: Patricia Smith Churchland, 1943년 7월 16일 ~ )는 캐나다 출신의 미국 분석철학자로 신경철학과 정신철학에 기여한 공로로 유명하다. 철학자 폴 처칠랜드와 결혼하였다. 처칠랜드는 신경과학과 철학 사이의 경계에 초점을 맞추었다. 뇌기능의 본질을 신경과학자들이 더 많이 발견함에 따라 사상, 자유 의지, 의식과 같은 "정신적" 개념을 물리적으로 환원적인 방법으로 수정할 필요가 있을 것이라고 주장하는 제거적 유물론과 연관되어 있다.

Patricia Smith Churchland 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."