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Patricia Smith Churchland
Also known as: Patricia Smith Churchland, Patricia Churchland
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 7 facts
claimDavid Chalmers notes that while Patricia Churchland correctly identifies that phenomena such as attention have an experiential component, it remains unclear why the experiential aspect should accompany the neural or cognitive functions associated with those phenomena.
claimDavid Chalmers argues that Patricia Churchland mischaracterizes his 'easy' versus 'hard' problem distinction by framing it as a division between specific cognitive problems like attention, learning, and memory on one hand, and the problem of consciousness on the other.
claimPaul Churchland (1996) imagines a nineteenth-century philosopher worrying about a "hard problem" of light, and Patricia Churchland uses an analogy involving heat to argue against the "hard problem" of consciousness.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers criticizes Patricia Churchland for failing to address the central arguments presented in his keynote paper and for not providing a systematic difference between the 'easy' and 'hard' problems of consciousness.
claimDavid Chalmers challenges Patricia Churchland to either argue that functional explanation is sufficient for consciousness or to directly address the explanatory disanalogy between functional problems and the hard problem of consciousness.
accountThe symposium on David Chalmers' paper 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness' included 26 commentaries from various scholars, including Bernard Baars, Douglas Bilodeau, Patricia Churchland, Tom Clark, C.J.S. Clarke, Francis Crick, Christof Koch, Daniel Dennett, Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose, Valerie Hardcastle, David Hodgson, Piet Hut, Roger Shepard, Benjamin Libet, E.J. Lowe, Bruce MacLennan, Colin McGinn, Eugene Mills, Kieron O'Hara, Tom Scutt, Mark Price, William Robinson, Gregg Rosenberg, William Seager, Jonathan Shear, Henry Stapp, Francisco Varela, Max Velmans, and Richard Warner.
claimDavid Chalmers classifies Patricia Churchland as a 'type-A materialist' because she suggests there is no principled difference between the 'hard' and 'easy' problems of consciousness.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 6 facts
claimPhilosophers Daniel Dennett, Massimo Pigliucci, Thomas Metzinger, Patricia Churchland, and Keith Frankish, along with cognitive neuroscientists Stanislas Dehaene, Bernard Baars, Anil Seth, and Antonio Damasio, reject the existence of the hard problem of consciousness.
referencePatricia Churchland authored 'The Hornswoggle Problem', published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 1996.
referencePatricia Smith Churchland presented a neurophilosophical perspective on consciousness research in the 2005 volume 'Cortical Function: A View from the Thalamus'.
claimPatricia Churchland and Paul Churchland have applied eliminative materialism to propositional attitudes, while Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey, and Keith Frankish have applied it to qualia or phenomenal consciousness.
claimThinkers who subscribe to type-A materialism include Paul Churchland, Patricia Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Keith Frankish, and Thomas Metzinger.
perspectiveDaniel Dennett and Patricia Churchland argue that the 'hard problem' of consciousness is best understood as a collection of 'easy problems' that will be resolved through further analysis of brain function and behavior.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
referencePatricia Churchland advocates for a radical approach to the study of human consciousness, as discussed in a 2019 interview with Julian Baggini.
perspectivePatricia Churchland, an eliminative materialist, argues that the hard problem of consciousness is premature because neuroscience is in its early stages and clarity will come from brain research rather than metaphysical speculation.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimRick Grush and Patricia Smith Churchland published a critique titled 'Gaps in Penrose’s toilings' in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 1995, which was subsequently responded to by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff in the same journal.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimThe quantum consciousness proposal by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff has received outspoken philosophical rejection from critics such as Rick Grush and Patricia Churchland.
Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences journal-psychoanalysis.eu 1 fact
claimThe authors of 'Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences' identify the work of P. Churchland & Sejnowski (1992) and F. Crick & Ch. Koch (1990) as representing the 'neuroreductionism' or 'eliminativism' position within naturalistic approaches to cognitive science.
The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimPatricia and Paul Churchland criticized David Chalmers' claim that everything except consciousness logically supervenes on the physical, arguing that this failure of supervenience does not necessarily mean materialism is false, citing heat and luminescence as physical properties that do logically supervene on the physical.