Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science.
Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science.
Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science.
"This is a wonderful book! In How Scientists Explain Disease, Paul Thagard offers us a delightful essay combining science, its history, philosophy, and sociology.
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.
... cognition and computation raises important questions in the philosophy of social science regarding explanation. Methodological individualism is the doctrine that all attempts to explain social and individual phenomena must refer ...
The book integrates decades of multidisciplinary research, but its clear explanations and humor make it accessible to the general reader.
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.
Mind-Society melds the neural and mental mechanisms in this book with complementary social mechanisms to explain a wide range of social phenomena.
... cognitive - affective map on , 136 ; conservative think tanks on , 140-41 ; conspiracy theories of , 144 ; economic ... infiltration , 185 cognitive mechanisms , 60-61 , 158 cognitive science , 94-95 coherence process , 271-72 . See ...
Mind-Society melds the neural and mental mechanisms in this book with complementary social mechanisms to explain a wide range of social phenomena.
Why is balance so fundamental, and how do physical and metaphorical balance shed light on each other? Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society.
A description of mental mechanisms that explain how emotions influence thought, from everyday decision making to scientific discovery and religious belief, and an analysis of when emotion can contribute to good reasoning.
The Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science contains 16 essays by leading philosophers of science that illuminate the nature of the theories and explanations used in the investigation of minds.