Spring lectures, 2015

Paul Thagard

University of Trnava, Slovakia: Natural Philosophy

1. What is philosophy in the age of science?

2. What is mind?

3. What is consciousness?

4. What is knowledge?

5. What is reality?

6. What is morality?

7. What is meaning?

Renmin University, Beijing: Explanation and Consciousness

1. Philosophy and explanation

2. Explanation by elimination and by deduction

3.Mechanism and emergence

4. Brain mechanisms explain consciousness

Duhem Conference, French Society for Philosophy of Science, Paris: Explaining Mental Illness

Explaining Mental Illness

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Paul Thagard

Computational Epistemology Laboratory.

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