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Patricia S. Churchland, BPhil

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)

Events

Teaching Stronger Brains

Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom  February 20-22, 2025

Keynote Address III: Conscience: The Social Brain and Social Learning