Published Articles, Books, Reviews, Interviews
2021
Podcast: Philosophy of Brain
An Interview with Patricia Churchland
Howard Burton, Ideas Roadshow Podcast: New Books Network – July 26
2020
Morality and the Brain: The Right Hemisphere and Doing Right
Christopher M. Filley, Isaiah Kletenik, Patricia S. Churchland
Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology – December, Volume 33, Number 4
The Patricia Churchland Interview
Episode 84, Part I: The Hornswoggle Problem, Part II: Conscience
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast – August 2
The Nature of Moral Motivation A Conversation with Patricia S. Churchland
Edge – October 16
Out of Mind: Philosopher Patricia Churchland’s Radical Approach to the Study of Human Consciousness
Julian Baggini Prospect – October 8
How Your Brain Invents Morality, Interview with Sigal Samuel
Patricia S. Churchland Vox – July 8
2018
The Computational Brain
25th Anniversary Edition
Revised Forward: Patricia S. Churchland, T.J. Sejnowski. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
2017
Neurophilosophy
Patricia S. Churchland How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism
Chapter 5, 113-148. ed. David Livingstone Smith. Cambridge University Press
2015
Neurophilosophy and Consciousness
Susan Blackmore interviews Patricia Churchland Axess – Sweden
2014
Putting Big Data to Good Use in Neuroscience
Terrence J. Sejnowski, Patricia S. Churchland, J. A. Movshon Nature Neuroscience – November 17, Volume 11, 1440-1
Agency and Control: The Subcortical Role in Good Decisions
Patricia S. Churchland Moral Psychology: Free Will and Responsibility Volume 4, Chapter 8, Walter Sinott-Armstrong, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Looking-Glass Wars, review of The Myth of Mirror Neurons, by G. Hickok
Patricia S. Churchland Nature – July 31, Volume 51, July
2013
Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
Patricia S. Churchland New York: Norton
Translations: Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese
Foreword to Word and Object (2nd edition), by W. V. O. Quine, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Patricia S. Churchland
2011
Review: Our Caring Neutrons
Richard S. Mathis Science, May 13, Vol 332
Reprint: Moral Decision-Making and the Brain
Patricia S. Churchland Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics – ed J. Illes and B. J. Sahakian, New York: Oxford.
The Brain and It’s Self
Patricia S. Churchland Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society – March 2011, 155(1):41-50.
2010
Roots of Right and Wrong
Opinion Special: Science Wakes Up to Morality
Patricia S. Churchland New Scientist – October 16
2009
Control: Conscious and Otherwise
Patricia S. Churchland, Christopher L. Suhler Trends in Cognitive Neurosciences
Psychology and Medical Decision-Making
Patricia S. Churchland, Christopher L. Suhler American Journal of Bioethics – September 2009, 79-81
Inference to the Best Decision
Patricia S. Churchland Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience – ed J. Bickle
Human Dignity from a Neurophilosophical Perspective
Patricia S. Churchland
Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics – ed by A. Schulman. 99-121.
Review: The Stuff of Thought by S. Pinker. Nature
2006
Do We Have Free Will?
Patricia S. Churchland The New Scientist – November 2006, 18
Reprint: Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything About Consciousness?
Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Classical and Contemporary Readings – ed D. Chalmers, Oxford University Press
Reprint: From Descartes to Neural Networks
In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, 51-53.
Reprint: How Do Neurons Know?
In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, 54-59.
Reprint: Could a Machine Think?
Paul Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, 70-82.
2005
A Neurophilosophical Slant on Consciousness Research
Patricia S. Churchland Progress in Brain Research – eds. V.A. Casagrande, R. W. Guillery, S. M. Sherman, 285-294
Reprint: Sphinx – 2005
Moral Decision-Making and the Brain
Patricia S. Churchland
Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Research, Practice, and Policy – ed. J. Illes, Oxford University Press, 3-16
Reprint: Moral Decision-Making and the Brain: Inaugural Address
Behind and Beyond the Brain – Proceedings of the Instituicao de Utilidade Publica, Fundacao Bial. 2005. 23-39.
Brains Wide Shut
Patricia S. Churchland New Scientist – April 30, 46-49.
Review: The Ethical Brain by Michael Gazzaniga. American Scientist
2004
How Do Neurons Know?
Patricia S. Churchland Daedalus Winter – 2004: On Learning. 42-50.
Reprint: Intertheoretica Reduction: A Neuroscientist’s Field Guide
translated into Polish: Interteoretska Redukcija: Podrocni Vodnik za Nervoznanstvenike Analiza – 8(3) 60-72.
2003
Reprint: Self-Representation in Nervous Systems
The Self: From Soul to Brain – eds. J. LeDoux, J. Debiec, H. Moss. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1001: 31-38.
2002
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy
Patricia S. Churchland. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
Japanese Translation 2005, Sozo Shuppan
Neural Worlds and Real Worlds
Patricia S. Churchland Nature Reviews/Neuroscience – 3:903-907, September
Neuroscience: Reflections on the Neural Basis of Morality
Patricia S. Churchland Neuroethics: Charting the Field – ed. J. Illes. Dana Press, November, 2002.
2001
Why Neuroscience Still Needs Pioneers
Patricia S. Churchland Carving our Destiny: Scientific Research Faces a New Millenium – ed. Susan Fitzpatrick, John T. Beuer.
National Academy of Sciences Publications. Joseph Henry Press, 117-122.
2000
Foreword: The Computer and the Brain (New Edition) by John von Neumann. Yale University Press, 11-22
1999
The Mind-Brain Problem
Patricia S. Chuchland, Paul M. Churchland
The Brain of Homo Sapiens – Vol. 4, Frontiere della Biologica, eds. E. Bizzi, P. Calissano, V. Volterra
Entries on Dualism, Eliminative Materialism, Emergent Properties, Epiphenomena, Mentalism, Neurophilosophy, Reductionism
Dictionary of Biological Psychology – ed. Philip Winn, Routledge Ltd.
1998
What Can We Expect from a Theory of Consciousness?
Patricia S. Churchland Advances in Neurology – Vol 77
Consciousness: At the Frontiers of Neuroscience – eds. H. Jasper, L. Descarries, V. Castellucci, S. Rossignol. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven. 19-32.
On the Contrary: Critical Essays 1987-1997
Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
1997
Recent Work on Consciousness: Philosophical, Empirical and Theoretical
Patricia S. Churchland, Paul M. Churchland Seminars in Neurology – 17: 101-108, July
Reprint: Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society – 4: 45-55
Reprint: Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything about Consciousness?
The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates – ed. Block, Flanagan, Guzeldere. MIT Press. 127-140
The Neurophilosopher: An Interview with Patricia Smith Churchland
Imagine There’s No Heaven; Voices of Secular Humanism – eds. Matt Cherry, Tom Flynn, Timothy Madigan. Council of Secular Humanism Place for Publication. 95-102.
Toward a Neurobiology of the Mind
Patricia S. Churchland The Mind-Brain Continuum – ed. Llinas, Churchland. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 281-303.
The Hornswoggle Problem
Patricia S. Churchland Journal of Consciousness Studies. 3:402-8.
Reprint: Could a Machine Think?
Readings in Language and Mind – ed. Geirsson, Losonsky. Blackwells. 273-281.
Feeling Reasons
Patricia S. Churchland Decision-Making and the Brain – ed. A. R. Damasio, H. Damasioand, Y. Christen. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 181-199.
Take it Apart and See How it Runs
Patricia S, Churchland, From Speaking Minds, Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists – ed. P. Baumgautner, S. Payr, Princeton University Press
Machine Intelligence
Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland Scientific American – Anniversary Edition
Gaps in Penrose’s Toiling
R. Grush, Patricia S. Churchland Journalof Consciousness Studies
Reprint: Conscious Experience – ed. by T. Metzinger. Berlin: Schoningh-Verlag.
Reprint: Mind and Brain in the 21st Century – ed. C. Maar. Berlin: Rowohlt Verlag.
Replies to The Churchlands and their Critics
Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland ed. R. N. McCauley. Oxford: Blackwells.
Reprint: Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything about Consciousness?
Patricia S. Churchland The Mind, The Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems – ed. H. J. Morowtiz, J. L. Singer. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.(1995).
Reprint: Conscious Experience. – ed. T. Metzinger. Berlin: Schoningh Verlag.
1994
Filling In: Why Dennett is Wrong
Patricia S. Churchland, V. S. Ramachandran Dennett and His Critics – ed. Bo Dahlbom. Oxford: Blackwells.
Reprint: Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science – ed. S. Davis, K. Akins. Oxford: Oxford UP.
A Critique of Pure Vision
Patricia S. Churchland , V. S. Ramachandran, T. J. Sejnowski Large-scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain – ed. C. Koch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Consciousness and the Neurosciences: Philosophical and Theoretical Issues
I. Farber, Patricia S. Churchland The Cognitive Neurosciences – ed. Michael Gazzaniga. MIT Press
Reprint: Could a Machine Think?
Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons – ed. E. Dietrich Academic Press.
Reprint: Intertheoretic Reduction: A Neuroscientist’s Field Guide
The Mind-Body Problem: A Guide to the Current Debate – ed. R. Warner, T Szubka. Oxford: Blackwells. 41-54.
1993
Can Neurobiology Teach us Anything About Consciousness?
Patricia S. Churchland Proceedings of the APA – Presidential Address, PacificDivision of the American Philosophical Association, March
Computation in the Age of Neuroscience
T. J. Sejnowski, Patricia S. Churchland The NewComputation – ed. D. Hillis. MIT Press.
1992
The Computational Brain
Patricia S. Churchland, T.J. Sejnowski. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
Italian Translation, Il Cervello Computazionale 1995, il Mulino: Bologna
German Translation, Grundlagen zur Neuroinformatik und Nuerobiologie 1997, Viewag
The Mind-Brain Continuum
ed. R. R. Llinas, Patricia S. Churchland. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
Aristotle on Memory
Patricia S. Churchland, Georgios Anagnostopoulos The Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory – ed. L. Squire.
Silicon Brains
T. J. Sejnowski, Patricia S. Churchland Byte – October
1991
Intertheoretic Reduction: A Neuroscientist’s Field Guide
Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland Seminars in the Neurosciences – 2: 249 – 256
Reprint: Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer’s Disease – ed. Y. Christen, Patricia S. Churchland. Springer-Verlag.
Reprint: Modelos Cognitivos de laMente: Investigacion Interdicplinaria en Ciencia Cognitiva – ed. J. L. Diaz, E. Villanueva. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
1990
Is Neuroscience Relevant to Philosophy?
Patricia S. Churchland Canadian Philosophers – ed. D. Copp. University of Toronto Press.
Reprint: Les Neurosciences Concernent – Elles La Philosophy? Philosophie De L’Esprit Et Sciences Du Cerveau – ed. Jean-Noel Missa. Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin. (Paris)
Could a Machine Think?
Patricia S. Churchland, Paul M. Churchland Scientific American Vol. 262, 32-39, January
Reprint: The Intentionality of Machines – ed. E. Dietrich. Oxford: Blackwells.
Neural Representation and Neural Computation
Patricia S. Churchland, T. J. Sejnowski Biological Computation and Mental Representation – ed. L. Nadel. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 15-48
Reprint: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory – ed. James Tomberlin. Ridgeview Publishing: Altascadero, CA.
Reprint: From Reading to Neurons – ed. A. Galaburda. Cambridge,Mass. : MIT Press, 217-254
1989
Brain and Cognition
Patricia S. Churchland, T. J. Sejnowski Foundations of Cognitive Science – ed. M. Posner. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
1988
Reduction and the Neurobiological Basis of Consciousness
Patricia S. Churchland Consciousness in Contemporary Science – ed. A. M. Marcel, E. Bisiach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 273-304.
What is Computational Neuroscience
T.J. Sejnowski, C. Koch, Patricia S. Churchland Science – 241:1299-1306
Reprint: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Reprint: Connectionist Modeling and Brain Function: The Developing Interface – C. R. Olson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience
Patricia S. Churchland, T. J. Sejnowski Science – 242:741-745
Reprint: From Molecules To Minds – ed. Katrina Kelner, American Association for theAdvancement of Science
Reprint: Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience – ed. Lister, Weingartner. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 3-23
1986
Replies to Commentaries on Neurophilosophy
Patricia S. Churchland Inquiry, 29, 241-272
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain
Patricia S. Churchland Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
Finnish Translation, Neurofilosphia. 2004, Helsinki: Terra Cognita
Korean Translation 2005, Chulhak Kwa Hyunsil Sa Publishing Co.
1984
Psychology and the Study of the Mind-Brain: Reply to Carr, Brown and Sudevan
Patricia S. Churchland Neuroscience – 13, 1401-1404
1983
Stalking the Wild Epistemic Engine
Patricia S. Churchland, Paul M. Churchland Nous – 17, 5-18, March. Symposium for the American Philosophical Association, Western Division
Reprint: Mind and Cognition – ed. W. Lycan. Oxford: Blackwells. 300-311
Content: Semantic and Information-Theoretic
Patricia S. Churchland, Paul M. Churchland The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Is the Visual System As Smart As It Looks?
Patricia S. Churchland Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association – Symposia Vol 2. 541-552
Ojemann’s Data: Provocative but Mysterious
Patricia S. Churchland The Behavioral and Brain Sciences – 6, 211-212
Dennett’s Instrumentalism: A Frog at the Bottom of the Mug
Patricia S. Churchland The Behavioral and Brain Sciences – 6, 358-9
How Many Angels?
Patricia S. Churchland The Behavioral and Brain Sciences – 4, 236
Functionalism, Qualia and Intentionality
Patricia S. Churchland, Paul M. Churchland Philosophical Topics – 12, 121-145, Spring 1981
Reprint: Mind, Brain, and Function – ed. R. Shahan, J. Biro. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press
1980
A Perspective on Mind-Brain Research
Patricia S. Churchland The Journal of Philosophy – 77, 185-207, April
Reprint: The Philosopher’s Annual – ed. D. L. Boyers, R. Grim, T. J. Saunders. Ridgeview California: Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1-24
Neuroscience and Psychology: Should the Labor Be Divided?
Patricia S. Churchland The Behavioral and Brain Sciences – 3, 133
1978
Fodor on Language Learning
Patricia S. Churchland Synthese – 38, 149-159, May 1, 1978
The Virtuosity of the Sensory Cortex and the Perils of Common Sense
Patricia S. Churchland, Paul M. Churchland The Behavioral and Brain Sciences – 1, 144
Internal States and Cognitive Theories
Patricia S. Churchland, Paul M. Churchland The Behavioral and Brain Sciences – 1, 348
1974
Logical Form and Ontological Decision
Patricia S. Churchland The Journal of Philosophy – 71. Abstract, 599-600, Oct. 10, 1974
