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Patricia Churchland

1943 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patricia Churchland has received more than 304,185 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Patricia Churchland is the 1,000th most popular philosopher (down from 982nd in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Canada (up from 279th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Philosopher.

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  • 48.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Patricia Churchland ranks 1,000 out of 1,081. Before her are Colotes, Barrington Moore Jr., Robert Spaemann, Derek Prince, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Achille Mbembe. After her are Wilhelm Gesenius, Hector Boece, Tariq Ramadan, Rüdiger Safranski, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, and Ivan Aksakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Patricia Churchland ranks 343. Before her are Milan Máčala, Ted Neeley, Kenzo Yokoyama, John Lennox, Janet Margolin, and Yukio Kasaya. After her are František Veselý, Juan Mujica, Bobby Keys, Joël Robert, Tadao Onishi, and Héctor Chumpitaz.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Patricia Churchland ranks 261 out of 1,350. Before her are Stephen McHattie (1946), Viola Desmond (1914), Stana Katic (1978), Michael Ontkean (1946), James LaBrie (1963), and Colleen Dewhurst (1924). After her are Michael Wincott (1958), Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), Michael Ignatieff (1947), Garou (1972), Paul Bley (1932), and John Abbott (1821).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Canada

Among philosophers born in Canada, Patricia Churchland ranks 5. Before her are Marshall McLuhan (1911), Charles Taylor (1931), Ian Stevenson (1918), and Ian Hacking (1936). After her are Northrop Frye (1912), G. A. Cohen (1941), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Leonard Peikoff (1933), Paul Churchland (1942), and Will Kymlicka (1962).

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