# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-churchland
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:36:02.274Z

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name: "Paul Churchland"
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description: "Paul Montgomery Churchland is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under Wilfrid Sellars (1969), Churchland rose to the rank of full professor at the University of Manitoba before accepting the Valtz Family Endowed Chair in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and joint appointments in that institution's Institute for Neural Computation and on its Cognitive Science Faculty."
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birthDate: "1942-10-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump