Director
Cognitive Science Program
University of Waterloo
Education:
- He is a graduate of the Universities of Saskatchewan, Cambridge, Toronto (Ph. D. in philosophy) and Michigan (M.S. in computer science).
Biography:
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). His research interests include discovery, scientific values, moral psychology, conceptual change, ideology, and integrating cognitive and social sciences.
- 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; second edition, 2005).