Paul Thagard
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 the author of Hot
Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition (MIT Press,
2006), Coherence
in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000), How
Scientists Explain Disease (Princeton University Press, 1999),
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (MIT Press, 1996;
second edition, 2005), Conceptual Revolutions (Princeton
University Press, 1992), and Computational
Philosophy of Science (MIT Press, 1988); and co-author of Mental
Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (MIT Press, 1995) and Induction:
Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery (MIT Press, 1986). He
is also editor of Philosophy
of Psychology and Cognitive Science (Elsevier, 2007).
A new book, The Brain and the Meaning of Life, will be published by Princeton University Press in March, 2010.
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.
1. Coherence and Analogy Articles
2. Science and Medicine Articles
3. Emotion Articles
4. Neuroscience Articles
Paul Thagard Office: HH368 Department of Philosophy Lab: MLB 307 University of Waterloo Email: pthagard@uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, On., Canada N2L 3G1 (519) 888-4567 extension 33594
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