PATRICIA SMITH CHURCHLAND Patricia Smith Churchland was born in 1943. She studied philosophy at the Uni versity of British Columbia (Canada), the University of Pittsburgh, and Oxford University. She worked at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984, first as assistant professor and thereafter as associate and then full professor, until she became Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego in 1984. From early on she has specialized in the philosophy of mind, of science, and especially of neuroscience, in which latter field she has become most noted for her book, Neurophilosophy. Take it Apart and See How It Runs. That book was one of the few things in philosophy that made any sense to me at that time, apart, of course, from Hume. Several other graduate students whom I came to know quite well were utterly contemptuous of the later Wittgenstein in particular and of so-called ordinary language philosophy in general. Their scoffing was typically dir