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“I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.”

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Lorraine Toussaint

Lorraine Toussaint, born on April 4, 1960, is an accomplished American actress with a long-standing career in film and television. She is known for her exceptional performances in various projects. more

“I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that philosophers are trying to figure out what is true, and that contemporary philosophers are mainly trying to figure out what is true about the mind. Of course Hume and Plato were trying to do that, hence my misapprehension.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“If 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.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“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?”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”

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Author:Philip Johnson

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