Bio
Paul Thagard is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include discovery, scientific values, moral psychology, conceptual change, ideology, and integrating cognitive and social sciences.
Dr. Thagard 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). He graduated from the Universities of Saskatchewan, Cambridge, Toronto (Ph. D. in philosophy) and Michigan (M.S. in computer science).
Selected Publications
- Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It. Columbia University Press, 2024.
- My journey to neurophilosophy. Journal of NeuroPhilosophy, 2(1), 2023.
- The relevance of neuroscience to meaning in life. In I. Landau (Ed.), Oxford handbook of meaning in life, (pp. 127-144). Oxford University Press, 2022.
- The cognitive science of COVID-19: Acceptance, denial, and belief change. Methods, 195, 92-102, 2021.
- Social equality: Cognitive modeling based on emotional coherence explains attitude change. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences., 5(2), 247-256, 2018.
- The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change, MIT Press, 2012.
- The Brain and the Meaning of Life, Princeton University Press, 2010.
- 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; 2nd edition, 2005.