PHILOSOPHER

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 325,458 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Patricia Churchland is the 1,060th most popular philosopher (down from 1,000th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 261st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Patricia Churchland ranks 1,060 out of 1,267. Before her are Hubert Dreyfus, Max Dessoir, Cleopatra the Alchemist, Bas van Fraassen, Jerzy Żuławski, and Sedulius Scottus. After her are Ioane Petritsi, Derek Prince, Abdel Rahman Badawi, Michael Oakeshott, Alois Riehl, and Hirata Atsutane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Patricia Churchland ranks 384. Before her are Tim Schenken, Mick Jackson, Kuniwo Nakamura, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, and Oleg Vidov. After her are Angelo Anquilletti, Richard Moll, Vaclav Smil, Vassilis Alexakis, Luis Eduardo Aute, and Frances Lee McCain.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Patricia Churchland ranks 282 out of 1,622. Before her are Gordon Lightfoot (1938), Lothaire Bluteau (1957), Henri Richard (1936), Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Deborah Kara Unger (1966), and David Johnston (1941). After her are Bobby Orr (1948), André Bessette (1845), Joe Clark (1939), Yannick Bisson (1969), Édouard Gagnon (1918), and Terry Sawchuk (1929).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Canada

Among philosophers born in Canada, Patricia Churchland ranks 6. Before her are Marshall McLuhan (1911), Charles Taylor (1931), Ian Stevenson (1918), Ian Hacking (1936), and Northrop Frye (1912). After her are G. A. Cohen (1941), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Will Kymlicka (1962), Leonard Peikoff (1933), and Paul Churchland (1942).

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