Patricia Churchland
Patricia Churchland is the author of Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves. She is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Awards
Shortlisted — PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, 2020
Books by Patricia Churchland
Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves
Patricia Churchland
Paperback, 2014
A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications.Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
Patricia Churchland
Hardback, 2019
Through science and philosophy, Conscience illuminates the answer to the question of how we determine right from wrong.Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
Patricia Churchland
Paperback, 2021
An “illuminating, entertaining and wise” (Nicholas A. Christakis, Nature) approach to understanding how our moral systems develop.Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves
Patricia Churchland
E Book, 2013
A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications.Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
Patricia Churchland
E Book, 2019
Through science and philosophy, Conscience illuminates the answer to the question of how we determine right from wrong.