PAUL AND PATRICIA CHURCHLAND
 An American philosopher interested
in the fields of philosophy of mind,
philosophy of science, cognitive
neurobiology, epistemology, and
perception.
 Churchlands’ central argument is
that the concepts and theoretical
vocabulary that people use to think
about the selves using such terms
as belief, desire, fear, sensation,
pain, joy actually misrepresent the
reality of minds and selves. He
claims that the self is a product of
brain activity.
 The behavior of the self can be
attributed to the
neuropharmacological states, the
neural activity in specialized
anatomical areas.
 Neurophilosopy was coined by
Patricia Churchland, the modern
scientific inquiry looks into the
application of neurology to age-old
problems in philosophy. The
philosophy of neuroscience is the
study of the philosophy of science,
neuroscience, and psychology. It
aims to explore the relevance of
neurolinguistic experiments/studies
to the philosophy of the mind.
 Patricia Churchland claimed that
man’s brain is responsible for the
identity known as self. The
biochemical properties of the brain
according to this philosophy of
neuroscience is really responsible
for man’s thoughts, feelings, and
behavior.
 Paul Churchland is one of the many
philosophers and psychologists that
viewed the self from a materialistic
point of view, contending that in the
final analysis mental states are
identical with, reducible to, or
explainable in terms of physical
brain states. This assumption was
made due to the physiological
processes of the body that directly
affecting the mental state of the
person. The advent of sophisticated
technology and scientific research
gives hope to understand the
connection between the physical
body and the mind/brain
relationship that integrated in the
self.
 Being an eliminative materialist, he
believes that there is a need to
develop a newvocabulary and
conceptual framework that is
grounded in neuroscience. This
new framework will be a more
accurate reflection of the human
mind and self