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Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1981. “Functionalism, Qualia and Intentionality.” Philosophical Topics 12(1): 121–132. Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 23–46) and in Warner and Szubka (1994).
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1983. “Stalking the Wild Epistemic Engine.” Noûs 17: 5–20. Reprinted in Warner and Szubka (1994).
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1990. “Could a Machine Think?” Scientific American 262(1): 32–37. Reprinted in Warner and Szubka (1994).
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996a. “McCauley’s Demand for a Co-Level Competitor [Reply to McCauley (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 222–231. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996b. “Connectionism as Psychology.” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 232–238. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996c. “Kitcher’s Empirical Challenge: Has There Been Progress in Neurophilosophy? [Reply to Kitcher (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 239–249. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996d. “Clark’s Connectionist Defense of Folk Psychology [Reply to Clark (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 250–255. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996e. “On the Nature of Explanation: William Lycan [Reply to Lycan (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 257–264. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996f. “Bechtel on the Proper Form of a Connectionist Phlosophy of Science [Reply to Bechtel (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 265–270. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996g. “Fodor and Lepore: State-Space Semantics and Meaning Holism [Reply to Fodor and LePore (1996a)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 272–277. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996h. “Second Reply to Fodor and Lepore [reply to Fodor and LePore (1996b)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 278–283. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996i. “Neuropsychology and Brain Organization: The Damasios [Reply to Damasio and Damasio (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 285–289. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996j. “Conceptual Analysis and Neuropsychology: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd [Reply to Marshall and Gurd (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 290–296. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996k. “Do we propose to Eliminate Consciousness?” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 297–299. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1996l. “Flanagan on Moral Knowledge [Reply to Flanagan (1996)].” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 302–310. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Churchland, Patricia Smith and Churchland, Paul M. 1997. “Recent Work on Consciousness: Philosophical, Theoretical, and Empirical.” Seminars in Neurology 17: 179–186. Reprinted in Warner and Szubka (1994).
Churchland, Paul M. 1970. “The Logical Character of Action-Explanations.” The Philosophical Review 79: 214–236.
Churchland, Paul M. 1979. Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1981. “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes.” The Journal of Philosophy 78(2): 67–90. Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 1–22) and in Christensen and Turner (1993, 42–62).
Churchland, Paul M. 1982a. “Is ‘Thinker’ a Natural Kind?” Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie / Canadian Philosophical Review 21: 223–238.
Churchland, Paul M. 1982b. “The Ontological Status of Observables. In Praise of the Superempirical Virtues.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 63(3). Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. and Hooker (1985, 35–47) and in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 139–152).
Churchland, Paul M. 1985a. “Reduction, Qualia, and the Direct Introspection of Brain States.” The Journal of Philosophy 82(1): 8–28. Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 47–66).
Churchland, Paul M. 1985b. “Subjective Qualia from a Materialist Point of View.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 773–790. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Churchland, Paul M. 1985c. “On the Speculative Nature of Our Self-Conception.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15(suppl. 10): 157–173.
Churchland, Paul M. 1985d. “Conceptual Progress and Word/World Relations: In Search of the Essence of Natural Kinds.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15: 1–17. Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 281–295).
Churchland, Paul M. 1986. “Some Reductive Strategies in Cognitive Neurobiology.” Mind 95: 279–309. Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 77–110) and in Silvers (1989, 223–254).
Churchland, Paul M. 1988a. “Perceptual Plasticity and Theoretical Neutrality: A Reply to Jerry Fodor [on Fodor (1984)].” Philosophy of Science 55(2): 167–187. Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 255–279), doi:10.1086/289425.
Churchland, Paul M. 1988b. “Folk Psychology and the Explanation of Human Behavior.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 62: 209–221. Republished in Tomberlin (1989, 225–241); reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 111–128), Greenwood (1991, 51–69), Bogdan (1991, 37–52) and in Christensen and Turner (1993, 247–262).
Churchland, Paul M. 1988c. “Reductionism, Connectionism, and the Plasticity of Human Consciousness.” Cultural Dynamics 1(1). Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 129–136).
Churchland, Paul M. 1989a. A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1989b. “Knowing Qualia: A Reply to Jackson.” in A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science, pp. 67–76. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Reprinted in Block, Flanagan and Güzeldere (1997, 571–579).
Churchland, Paul M. 1989c. “On the Nature of Explanation: A PDP Approach.” in A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science, pp. 197–230. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1989d. “Learning and Conceptual Change.” in A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science, pp. 231–254. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1989e. “Moral Facts and Moral Knowledge.” in A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science, pp. 297–303. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1990a. “On the Nature of Theories: A Neurocomputational Perspective.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV: Scientific Theories, edited by C. Wade Savage, pp. 59–101. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted in Churchland, P. M. (1989a, 153–196) and in Burton (1993, 21–68).
Churchland, Paul M. 1990b. “Cognitive Activity in Artificial Neural Networks.” in An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Volume 3: Thinking, volume 3, edited by Daniel N. Osherson and Edward E. Smith. vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1991. “A Deeper Unity: Some Feyerabendian Themes in Neurocomputational Form.” in Beyond Reason. Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend, edited by Gonzalo Munévar, pp. 1–24. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 132. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Reprinted in Davis (1992, 30–50) and in Giere (1992, 341–366).
Churchland, Paul M. 1992. “Reconceiving Cognition [reply to Glymour (1992)].” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XV: Cognitive Models of Science, edited by Ronald N. Giere, pp. 475–480. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1993a. “State-Space Semantics and Meaning Holism.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53: 667–672.
Churchland, Paul M. 1993b. “Evaluating our Self-Conception.” Mind and Language 8: 211–222.
Churchland, Paul M. 1993c. “Theory, Taxonomy, and Methodology: A Reply to Haldane (1988).” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93: 313–319.
Churchland, Paul M. 1995a. The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1995b. “Postscript to Churchland, P. M. (1981).” in Contemporary Materialism. A Reader, edited by Paul K. Moser and J. D. Trout, pp. 175–186. London: Routledge.
Churchland, Paul M. 1996a. “The Rediscovery of Light.” The Journal of Philosophy 93: 211–228.
Churchland, Paul M. 1996b. “A Feedforward Network for Fast Stereo Vision with Movable Fusion Plane.” in Perception, edited by Kathleen A. Akins, pp. 61–88. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science n. 5. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1996c. “Learning and Conceptual Change: The View from the Neurons.” in Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology. The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2, edited by Andy Clark and Peter J. R. Millican, pp. 7–44. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 1998. “Conceptual Similarity Across Sensory and Neural Diversity: The Fodor/Lepore Challenge Answered.” The Journal of Philosophy 95(1): 5–32, doi:10.2307/2564566.
Churchland, Paul M. 2000a. “Rules, Know-How, and the Future of Moral Cognition.” in Moral Epistemology Naturalized, edited by Richmond Campbell and Bruce Hunter, pp. 291–306. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 2000b. “A new Approach to Human Cognition and its Significance for the Philosophy of Science.” in The Reality of the Unobservable. Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism, edited by Evandro Agazzi and Massimo Pauri, pp. 59–86. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 215. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Churchland, Paul M. 2001a. “Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral Virtues.” in Foundations of Cognitive Science, edited by João Branquinho, pp. 77–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 2001b. “What Happens to Reliabilism When It Is Liberated from the Propositional Attitudes?” Philosophical Topics 29(1–2): 91–112.
Churchland, Paul M. 2004. “Philosophy of Mind Meets Logical Theory: Perry on Neo-Dualism [on Perry (2001)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68(1): 199–206.
Churchland, Paul M. 2005a. “Chimerical Colors: Some Novel Predictions from Cognitive Neuroscience.” in Cognition and the Brain. The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement, edited by Andrew Brook and Kathleen A. Akins, pp. 309–335. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 2005b. “Cleansing Science.” Inquiry 48(5): 464–477.
Churchland, Paul M. 2007. “The Evolving Fortunes of Eliminative Materialism.” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, edited by Brian P. McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen, pp. 160–182. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 8. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. second edition: McLaughlin and Cohen (2023).
Churchland, Paul M. 2008. “On the Nature of Intelligence: Turing, Church, von Neumann, and the Brain.” in Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer, edited by Roger Epstein, Gary Roberts, and Grace Beber, pp. 107–118. Berlin: Springer.
Churchland, Paul M. 2010. “Concept Formation via Hebbian Learning: The Special Case of Prototypical Causal Sequences.” in Interpretation. Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Gereon Wolters, pp. 203–219. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 2011. “Consciousness and the Introspection of ‘Qualitative Simples’ .” Eidos. Revista de Filosofı́a de la Universidad del Norte 15: 12–47. Reprinted in Brown (2014, 35–56).
Churchland, Paul M. 2012. Plato’s Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 2013. Matter and Consciousness. 3rd ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Churchland, Paul M. 2014. “Response to Alter (2014).” in Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience, edited by Richard O. Brown, pp. 69–74. Studies in Brain and Mind n. 6. Berlin: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1.
Churchland, Paul M. 2015. “Rules: The Basis of Morality …?” in Open MIND, edited by Thomas Metzinger and Jennifer M. Windt. Frankfurt a.M.: MIND Group, Philosophisches Seminar der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
Churchland, Paul M. and Churchland, Patricia Smith. 1990. “Intertheoretic Reduction: a Neuroscientist’s Field Guide.” The Neurosciences 2: 249–256. Reprinted in Warner and Szubka (1994, 41–54).
Churchland, Paul M. and Churchland, Patricia Smith. 1994. “Could a Machine Think? Classical AI Is Unlikely to Yield Conscious Machines: Systems that Mimic the Brain Might.” in Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons. Essays on the Intentionality of Machines, edited by Eric Dietrich, pp. 157–171. New York: Academic Press.
Churchland, Paul M. and Hooker, Clifford A. 1985. Images of Science. Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Further References
Alter, Torin. 2014. “Churchland on Arguments Against Physicalism [on Churchland, P. M. (2014)].” in Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience, edited by Richard O. Brown, pp. 57–68. Studies in Brain and Mind n. 6. Berlin: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1.
Bechtel, William P. 1996. “What should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 121–144. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Block, Ned, Flanagan, Owen, Jr. and Güzeldere, Güven, eds. 1997. The Nature of Consciousness. Philosophical Debates. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Bogdan, Radu J., ed. 1991. Mind and Common Sense: Philosophical Essays on Commonsense Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Brown, Richard O., ed. 2014. Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience. Studies in Brain and Mind n. 6. Berlin: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1.
Burton, Robert G., ed. 1993. Natural and Artificial Minds. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
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Davis, Steven, ed. 1992. Connectionism: Theory and Practice. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science n. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Fodor, Jerry A. 1990. A Theory of Content and Other Essays. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/6765.001.0001.
Fodor, Jerry A. and LePore, Ernest. 1996a. “Paul Churchland and State Space Semantics.” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 145–158. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Reprinted in Fodor and LePore (2002, 155–173).
Fodor, Jerry A. and LePore, Ernest. 1996b. “Reply to Churchland, P. S. and Churchland (1996g).” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 159–162. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Reprinted in Fodor and LePore (2002, 155–173).
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Marshall, John and Gurd, Jennifer. 1996. “The Furniture of the Mind: A Yard of Hope, a Ton of Terror?” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 176–191. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
McCauley, Robert N. 1996. “Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-Evolution of Theories in Science.” in The Churchlands and their Critics, edited by Robert N. McCauley, pp. 17–47. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
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