Speaker Profile

Patricia S. Churchland

Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego; Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute, whose work focuses on morality and the social brain; Winner of the McArthur Prize in 1991 and the Rossi Prize for Neuroscience in 2008; Author, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition (2019), Touching a Nerve (2013), Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality (2011), Brain-Wise (2002), and The Computational Brain (1994); Co-Author, “Morality and the Brain: The Right Hemisphere and Doing Right” (2020, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology) and “The Neurobiological Platform for Moral Values” (2014, Behavior)

Patricia S.Churchland

Past Talks

Teaching Stronger Brains
Promoting Student Strengths, Character, Compassion, Hope, and Autonomy in a Deficit-Focused Age
Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom
February 20-22, 2025

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