Paul Thagard. April 19, 2018: this page is superseded by paulthagard.com.

Paul Thagard is a philosopher, cognitive scientist, and author of many interdisciplinary books. 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).

Publications 2012-2017. Google Scholar profile.

Increasing mutual understanding using cognitive-affective maps: EMPATHICA.

Blog for Psychology Today (more than 1,000,000 views).

Books

Current Project: Treatise on Mind and Society

This treatise consists of a trio of books that can be read independently:

Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity
Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions
Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty.

These books will be published by Oxford University Press in fall, 2018.

Published:

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.

Articles

Curriculum vitae, including full publication list (PDF)

Lectures: PDFs of Powerpoint slides

2016-2017 lectures

Brain Mechanisms Explain Emotions and Consciousness (Atlanta, Georgia; Berlin, Germany; Buffalo, New York; Kelowna, British Columbia; Mississaugua, Ontario; Santiago, Chile)
Creativity in Humans and Computers (Plymouth, England; Salamanca, Spain)
Conceptual Change in the Brain Revolution (London, Ontario)
The Emotional Coherence of Donald Trump (Boston, Massachusetts; San Antonio, Texas)
The Emotional Coherence of the Islamic State (Berlin, Germany; Reno, Nevada)
Explaining Mental Illness (London, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario)
Historical Explanation and Conceptual Change (Helsinki, Finland)
The Logic and Psychology of Psychotherapeutic Assessment (Toronto, Ontario)
Relevant Emotions (Kasnas, Finland)
What are Values in Public Health? (Barcelona, Spain)
Why Reason? Inference, Reasoning, and Education (Berkeley, California; Montreal, Quebec; Munich, Germany)

2015 Lectures in Trnava, Beijing, and Paris

Videos

Courses (before retirement Oct. 1, 2016)

Paul Thagard              
Department of Philosophy  
University of Waterloo    
Waterloo, On., Canada
N2L 3G1
Email: pthagard@uwaterloo.ca
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This page updated April 19, 2018.