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Is a unified science of the mind-brain possible?

A review of Patricia Smith Churchland, Neurophilosophy: Toward a unified science of the mind/brain, The M.I.T. Press (A Bradford Book), Cambridge, Mass., 1986. xi + 546 pp., $27.50.

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Bishop, J. Is a unified science of the mind-brain possible?. Biol Philos 3, 375–391 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00053661

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