Paul Thagard






Paul
Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, with cross appointment to Psychology and
Computer Science, Director of the Cognitive Science Program, and University
Research Chair at the University of Waterloo. He is a graduate of the Universities
of Saskatchewan, Cambridge, Toronto (Ph. D. in philosophy) and Michigan (M.S.
in computer science). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological
Science, and received a Canada Council for the Arts Molson
Prize.
New software application for increasing mutual understanding using cognitive-affective maps: EMPATHICA.
Paul Thagard's blog for Psychology Today.
Books
- The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change (MIT Press, May, 2012).
- The Brain and the
Meaning of Life (Princeton University Press, 2010). Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Podcast discussion.
- Philosophy
of Psychology and Cognitive Science(ed., Elsevier, 2007).
- Hot
Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition (MIT Press,
2006).
- Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (MIT Press, 1996;
second edition, 2005).
- Coherence
in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000).
- How
Scientists Explain Disease (Princeton University Press, 1999).
- Mind Readings: Introductory Selections in Cognitive Science (ed., MIT Press, 1998).
- Mental
Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought(MIT Press, 1995) with Keith Holyoak.
- Conceptual Revolutions (Princeton
University Press, 1992).
- Computational
Philosophy of Science (MIT Press, 1988).
- Induction:
Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery (MIT Press, 1986) with John Holland, Keith Holyoak, and Richard Nisbett.
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Research interests
Courses
Winter, 2012:
Others:
- COGSCI
600: Graduate Seminar in Cognitive Science
- Phil 145, Critical
Thinking
- Phil 224, Environmental Ethics
- Phil 226, Ethics and the Life Sciences
- Phil 255, Philosophy of Mind, 2005
- Phil 255, Philosophy
of Mind, 2000
- Phil/Psych 446
(2005), Cognitive Modelling
- Phil/Psych 446, (2007) Seminar in Cognitive
Science: Consciousness
- Phil/Psych 447, (2008) Seminar in Cognitive Science:
Brains and the Meaning of Life
- Phil/Psych 447, (2009) Seminar in Cognitive
Science: Creativity and Emotion
- Phil/Psych 447, (2010) Seminar in Cognitive Science:
Mind and Society
- Phil/Psych 447, (2011) Seminar in Cognitive
Science: Creativity and Innovation
- Phil 474/673: Life, Mind, and Disease
- Phil 479/679M,
Foundations of Cognitive Science
- Phil 680, Rationality
- Phil 680b, Rationality, continued.
Paul Thagard Office: HH368
Department of Philosophy Lab: HH 322
University of Waterloo Email: pthagard@uwaterloo.ca
Waterloo, On., Canada
N2L 3G1
(519) 888-4567 extension 33594
Email Paul.
Computational Epistemology
Laboratory. Information on cognitive science, bibliographies, software.
This page updated Feb. 6, 2012