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D-Index
65
Citations
35125
World Ranking
2758
National Ranking
163

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Overview

Paul Thagard is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and specializes primarily in Computer Science, with specific focus areas in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science, and General Decision Sciences.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Topic Modeling
  • History and Theory of Mathematics

Recent publications demonstrate a range of interdisciplinary engagements across philosophy, psychology, biology, and cognitive science. Notable papers are:

  • Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism, 2022, Philosophy of Science
  • Emotional change: Neural mechanisms based on semantic pointers., 2021, Emotion
  • The cognitive science of COVID-19: Acceptance, denial, and belief change, 2021, Methods
  • Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms, 2022, Biology & Philosophy
  • Naturalizing Logic: How Knowledge of Mechanisms Enhances Inductive Inference, 2021, Philosophies

Paul Thagard has collaborated with several scholars including Laurette Larocque, Ivana Kajić, and Mônica Ferreira Corrêa.

Their publishing record spans various academic venues, reflecting interdisciplinary work. Frequent venues include:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Emotion
  • Biology & Philosophy
  • Methods
  • Philosophies

In addition to numerous papers, Thagard is the author of books published by established academic presses. Their books include:

  • Bots and Beasts (2021), published by The MIT Press
  • Balance (2022), published by Columbia University Press

Paul Thagard has been recognized through awards such as the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize awarded by the Canada Council in 2013, and has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, under the Academy of the Arts and Humanities since 1999.

Best Publications

  • Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

    John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul R. Thagard

  • Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

    John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul R. Thagard

  • Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

    Keith J. Holyoak;Paul Thagard

  • Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction

    Keith J. Holyoak;Paul Thagard

  • Explanatory coherence

    Paul R. Thagard

  • Computational Philosophy of Science

    Paul Thagard

  • FORMING IMPRESSIONS FROM STEREOTYPES, TRAITS, AND BEHAVIORS : A PARALLEL-CONSTRAINT-SATISFACTION THEORY

    Ziva Kunda;Paul Thagard

  • Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science

    Paul Thagard

  • Coherence in Thought and Action

    Paul Thagard

  • Defending explanatory coherence.

    Paul Thagard

  • The analogical mind.

    Keith J. Holyoak;Paul Thagard

  • Explanatory coherence (plus commentary)

    Paul Thagard

  • How Scientists Explain Disease

    Paul Thagard

  • Analog retrieval by constraint satisfaction

    Paul Thagard;Keith J. Holyoak;Greg Nelson;David Gochfeld

  • Induction: Processes Of Inference

    John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul Thagard

  • Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition

    Paul Thagard

  • Coherence as constraint satisfaction

    Paul Thagard;Karsten A. Verbeurgt

  • Abductive Reasoning: Logic, Visual Thinking, and Coherence

    Paul Thagard;Cameron Shelley

  • The AHA! Experience: Creativity Through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks

    Paul Thagard;Terrence C. Stewart

  • Concepts as Semantic Pointers: A Framework and Computational Model

    Peter Blouw;Eugene Solodkin;Paul Thagard;Chris Eliasmith

  • Epistemology and cognition

    Paul Thagard

  • Business: Leadership and Marketing

    Paul Thagard

  • Knowledge in Flux

    Ronald Giere;Wesley Salmon;Paul Thagard

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith J. Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Liane Gabora
Liane Gabora University of British Columbia
Ziva Kunda
Ziva Kunda University of Waterloo
Baljinder K. Sahdra
Baljinder K. Sahdra Australian Catholic University
Joanne V. Wood
Joanne V. Wood University of Waterloo
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas R. Shultz
Thomas R. Shultz McGill University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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