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Paul M. Churchland

Paul M. Churchland publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Philosophy and Theoretical Science and Neural Networks and Applications.

World rank
#11,107
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,346
of 358,040
Works
54
Citations
531
Citations per work
9.8

What does Paul M. Churchland research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 14.3%Philosophy: 10.2%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10.2%Cognitive Neuroscience: 10.2%other fields: 55.1%14%top field
History and Philosophy of Science14.3%Philosophy10.2%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10.2%Cognitive Neuroscience10.2%other fields55.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science14% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy10% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul M. Churchland's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Consciousness, Perception, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Neural Networks, Aristotle, Grounding and Phenomenal Experience.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Consciousness62 topics
  2. Perception62 topics
  3. Evolutionary Synthesis51 topic
  4. Mechanistic Explanation51 topic
  5. Neural Networks52 topics
  6. Aristotle42 topics
  7. Grounding41 topic
  8. Phenomenal Experience41 topic
  9. Backpropagation Learning31 topic
  10. Self-Organizing Maps31 topic
  11. Belief21 topic
  12. Cognition21 topic
  13. Color Psychology21 topic
  14. Kansei Engineering21 topic
  15. Knowledge21 topic
  16. Natural Philosophy21 topic
  17. Physics of Mind21 topic
  18. Plato21 topic
  19. Scientific Culture21 topic
  20. Stoicism21 topic

Where does Paul M. Churchland work?

Paul M. Churchland's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California San Diego, United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul M. Churchland have?

Science Explorer counts 54 works and 531 citations for Paul M. Churchland, ranking #11,107 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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