Paul Thagard






Paul
Thagard is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program 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. The Canada Council awarded him a Killam Research Fellowship (1997), a Molson
Prize (2007), and a Killam Prize (2013).
New items for 2012-2013. Google Scholar profile.
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, 2012). Amazon.com. Amazon.ca. Podcast.
- The Brain and the
Meaning of Life (Princeton University Press, 2010). Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Podcast.
- 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, 2013
Fall, 2012:
Others:
- Phil 145, Critical
Thinking
- Phil 224, Environmental Ethics
- 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 April 18, 2013