Patricia Churchland is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. She also works in consciousness studies, and has published books and has articles including: Neurophilosophy: Towards a unified science of the mind-brain (1986); Brain-Wise: Studies in neurophilosophy (2002); Ten Unsolved Problems in Neuroscience (with David Eagleman, forthcoming)
THE books-on-consciousness mills are running full tilt. Just about anyone who is conscious seems motivated to write on the subject, and most authors profess themselves emboldened to call their own contribution a theory of consciousness. Because the output is accelerating, it may be innocently assumed that something new…
