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Paul Churchland

1942 - Today

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Paul Montgomery Churchland (born October 21, 1942) is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under Wilfrid Sellars (1969), Churchland rose to the rank of full professor at the University of Manitoba before accepting the Valtz Family Endowed Chair in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and joint appointments in that institution's Institute for Neural Computation and on its Cognitive Science Faculty. As of February 2017, Churchland is recognised as Professor Emeritus at the UCSD, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Moscow State University. Churchland is the husband of philosopher Patricia Churchland, with whom he collaborates closely. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Churchland is the 1,224th most popular philosopher (up from 1,246th in 2019), the 603rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 694th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Paul Churchland ranks 1,224 out of 1,267. Before him are Alice von Hildebrand, Gary L. Francione, Raya Dunayevskaya, Catherine Malabou, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, and C. H. Dodd. After him are William Ames, Cornel West, Ralph Barton Perry, Eric A. Havelock, Stanley Jaki, and Julia Annas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Paul Churchland ranks 615. Before him are Lesley Turner Bowrey, Antonio Munguía, Fredi, Bob Foster, Honorino Landa, and Guus Kuijer. After him are Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, Steve Wynn, Jan Halvarsson, Christine Darden, Harald Norpoth, and Dan Haggerty.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Paul Churchland ranks 603 out of 1,622. Before him are Mark Messier (1961), Sidney Olcott (1872), Maurice Prendergast (1858), Owen Hargreaves (1981), Claude Vivier (1948), and Pablo Schreiber (1978). After him are Nicole Appleton (1974), Paul Corkum (1943), Roy Dupuis (1963), Scotty Bowman (1933), Elmer Clifton (1890), and Yvonne Brill (1924).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Canada

Among philosophers born in Canada, Paul Churchland ranks 9. Before him are G. A. Cohen (1941), Ian Stevenson (1918), Ian Hacking (1936), Patricia Churchland (1943), Northrop Frye (1912), and Bernard Lonergan (1904). After him are Will Kymlicka (1962), and Leonard Peikoff (1933).

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