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Friday, March 17, 2017

The Interface between Neuroscience and Philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Churchland#Philosophy

Churchland has focused on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy. According to her, philosophers are increasingly realizing that to understand the mind one must understand the brain. She is associated with a school of thought called eliminative materialism, which argues that commonsense, immediately intuitive, or "folk psychological" concepts such as thought, free will, and consciousness will likely need to be revised in a physically reductionistic way as neuroscientists discover more about the nature of brain function.[20] 2014 saw a brief exchange of views on these topics with Colin McGinn in the pages of the New York Review Of Books.[21]

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