Books written by Paul Thagard
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Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences
Differences notwithstanding, there is also some overlap between these two approaches; their relative potential has recently been briefly evaluated using modeling (Claidière & Sperber, 2007; see also Boyer, 1994, pp. 263– 96).
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Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Lopes, D. M. (2014). Beyond art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Magnani, L. (2009). Abductive cognition: The epistemological and eco-cognitive dimensions of hypothetical reasoning. Berlin: Springer. Marcus, G. F., & Davis, E. (2013).
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Úvod do kognitivní vědy: Mysl a myšlení
Úvod do kognitivní vědy: Mysl a myšlení
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Philosophy of Economics
This gives rise to philosophical disputes about its goals and achievements, concepts and methods. The essays in this Handbook are divided in two parts.
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Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?
In Bots and Beasts, Paul Thagard looks at how computers ("bots") and animals measure up to the minds of people, offering the first systematic comparison of intelligence across machines, animals, and humans.
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Coherence in Thought and Action
This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in.
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The Brain and the Meaning of Life
Defending the superiority of evidence-based reasoning over religious faith and philosophical thought experiments, Thagard argues that minds are brains and that reality is what science can discover.
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Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society)
This book explains minds in terms of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including the social, mental, neural, and molecular.
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Computational Philosophy of Science
By applying research in artificial intelligence to problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Thagard develops an exciting new approach to the study of scientific reasoning.
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The Brain and the Meaning of Life
The book integrates decades of multidisciplinary research, but its clear explanations and humor make it accessible to the general reader.
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Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Gottman's proclaimed “new science of love,” his Principia Amoris, consists of a set of equations for describing the emotional interactions of two people such as a husband and wife. He uses the variable X to represent the emotional ...
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Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions (Treatise on Mind and Society)
This book belongs to a trio that includes Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty.
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Conceptual Revolutions
These land bridges are no longer in evidence since they were part of blocks that had subsided. The assumption that parts of the crust considered “land” could become parts of the crust considered “seafloor” presupposed that the ...
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Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery
The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the Interna tional Conference Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (MBR'98), held at the Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in December 1998.
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The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
In W. J. Gonzalez (Ed.), Conceptual revolutions: From cognitive science to medicine. A Coruña, Spain: Netbiblo. Thagard, P. (forthcoming-c). Mapping minds across cultures. In R. Sun (Ed.), Grounding social sciences in cognitive sciences ...
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Brain-mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity
In R. Sun ( Ed . ) , Grounding social sciences in cognitive sciences ( pp . 35-62 ) . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press . Thagard , P. ( 2012d ) . The cognitive science of science : Explanation , discovery , and conceptual change .
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Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society)
This book explains minds in terms of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including the social, mental, neural, and molecular.
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Philosophy of Medicine
This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice.
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Philosophy of Chemistry
This volume serves as a detailed introduction for those new to the field as well as a rich source of new insights and potential research agendas for those already engaged with the philosophy of chemistry.
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Mind, second edition: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Other additions include a list of relevant Web sites at the end of each chapter and a glossary at the end of the book. As in the first edition, each chapter concludes with a summary and suggestions for further reading.