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    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