Thagard, Paul - (Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1977). His current interests include analogy, conceptual change, visual thinking, decision making, and social aspects of science. See coherence, explanation.
Currently, Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. His areas of specialization include Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of Conceptual Revolutions (Princeton University Press, 1992), and Computational Philosophy of Science (MIT Press, 1988). He is co-author of Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery (MIT Press, 1986) and Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (MIT Press, 1995). His articles have appeared in Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Synthese, and many other journals and books. He is a member of the editorial board of Cognitive Science, Philosophical Psychology and Philosophy and Computing. His current interests include analogy, conceptual change, visual thinking, decision making, and social aspects of science.
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