Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it, what can we say are the two most important concept results of all that effort?
Patricia ChurchlandTheorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.
Patricia ChurchlandHumility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.
Patricia ChurchlandIf I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.
Patricia Churchland