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Paul Thagard

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Coherence in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000) and Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (second edition, MIT Press, 2005).

Hot ThoughtHot Thought
Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition
Paul Thagard
Paper / September 2008
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.
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Hot ThoughtHot Thought
Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition
Paul Thagard
Cloth / September 2006
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.
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Mind, 2nd EditionMind, 2nd Edition
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Paul Thagard
Cloth / April 2005
An elementary description of the main theories and problems of cognitive science, accessible to readers with different interests and backgrounds.
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Mind, 2nd EditionMind, 2nd Edition
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Paul Thagard
Paper / April 2005
An elementary description of the main theories and problems of cognitive science, accessible to readers with different interests and backgrounds.
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Coherence in Thought and ActionCoherence in Thought and Action
Paul Thagard
Paper / August 2002
Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory's numerous psychological and philosophical applications.
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Coherence in Thought and ActionCoherence in Thought and Action
Paul Thagard
Cloth / November 2000
This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in.
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Mind ReadingsMind Readings
Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science
Paul Thagard (Ed.)
Paper / March 1998
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MindMind
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Paul Thagard
Cloth / October 1996
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Mental LeapsMental Leaps
Analogy in Creative Thought
Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard
Paper / January 1996
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No cover image available for this edition.Mental Leaps
Analogy in Creative Thought
Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard
Cloth / December 1994
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No cover image available for this edition.Computational Philosophy of Science
Paul Thagard
Cloth / April 1988
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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No cover image available for this edition.Induction
Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett and Paul Thagard
Cloth / September 1986
Two psychologists, a computer scientist, and a philosopher have collaborated to present a framework for understanding processes of inductive reasoning and learning in organisms and machines.
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