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Biografisk notat
Patricia Churchland is the author of Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves. She is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship."No one blends philosophy and neuroscience as well as Patricia Churchland. Here she provides a much-needed correction to the usual emphasis on reasoning and logic in moral philosophy. Our judgements are guided by ancient intuitions and brain processes shared with other mammals."
- Frans de Waal,
"Conscience is illuminating, entertaining and wise."
- Nature,
"... her conclusion—that conscience is not as fixed or universal as we might like to think—is a fascinating and provocative one."
- Economia,