Paul R. Thagard (thagard)

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Bibliography

Holyoak, Keith J. and Thagard, Paul R. 1995. Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Magnani, Lorenzo, Nersessian, Nancy J. and Thagard, Paul R., eds. 1999. Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Nowak, Gregory and Thagard, Paul R. 1992. “Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Explanatory Coherence.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XV: Cognitive Models of Science, edited by Ronald N. Giere, pp. 274–309. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Rusnock, Paul and Thagard, Paul R. 1995. “Strategies for Conceptual Change: Ratio and Proportion in Classical Greek Mathematics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26(1): 107–131.
Thagard, Paul R. 1977. “The Unity of Peirce’s Theory of Hypothesis.” Transactions of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society 13: 112–121.
Thagard, Paul R. 1978a. “The Best Explanation: Criteria for Theory Choice.” The Journal of Philosophy 75: 76–92.
Thagard, Paul R. 1978b. “Semiotics and Hypothetic Inference in C.S. Peirce.” Versus 19/20: 163–172.
Thagard, Paul R. 1978c. “Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience.” in PSA 1978: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ian Hacking, pp. 223–234. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Thagard, Paul R. 1980. “Against Evolutionary Epistemology.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 187–196. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Thagard, Paul R. 1983. “Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and the Philosophy of Discovery.” in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia and Invited Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 166–175. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Thagard, Paul R. 1984. “Conceptual Combination and Scientific Discovery.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 3–12. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Thagard, Paul R. 1986a. “Parallel Computation and the Mind-Body Problem.” Cognitive Science 10: 301–318.
Thagard, Paul R. 1986b. “The Emergence of Meaning: An Escape from Searle’s Chinese Room.” Behaviorism 14: 139–146.
Thagard, Paul R. 1987. “Computational Models in the Philosophy of Science.” in PSA 1986: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Peter K. Machamer, pp. 329–335. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Thagard, Paul R. 1988a. Computational Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 1988b. “Dimensions of Analogy.” in Analogical Reasoning. Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Philosophy, edited by D. H. Helman, pp. 105–124. Synthese Library n. 197. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Thagard, Paul R. 1990a. “Concepts and Conceptual Change.” Synthese 82: 255–274.
Thagard, Paul R. 1990b. “Philosophy and Machine Learning.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20: 261–276.
Thagard, Paul R. 1991a. “The Dinosaur Debate: Explanatory Coherence and the Problem of Competing Hypotheses.” in Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface, edited by Robert Cummins and John L. Pollock, pp. 279–300. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 1991b. “Philosophical and Computational Models of Explanation.” Philosophical Studies 64: 87–104.
Thagard, Paul R. 1992. “Computing Coherence [reply to Glymour (1992)].” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XV: Cognitive Models of Science, edited by Ronald N. Giere, pp. 485–488. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 1994. “Explaining Scientific Change: Integrating the Cognitive and the Social.” in PSA 1994: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard M. Burian, pp. 298–303. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Thagard, Paul R. 1996a. Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 1996b. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall1997/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R., ed. 1998. Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 1999. How Scientists Explain Disease. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 2000a. Coherence in Thought and Action. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 2000b. “Explaining Disease: Correlations, Causes, and Mechanisms.” in Explanation and Cognition, edited by Frank C. Keil and Robert A. Wilson, pp. 255–276. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 2002. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2002/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R. 2004a. “Computing in the Philosophy of Science.” in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, edited by Luciano Floridi, pp. 307–317. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470757017.
Thagard, Paul R. 2004b. “Rationality and Science.” in The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, edited by Alfred R. Mele and Piers Rawling, pp. 363–379. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195145397.001.0001.
Thagard, Paul R. 2004c. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2004/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R. 2005a. “Testimony, Credibility, and Explanatory Coherence.” Erkenntnis 63(3): 295–316. Reprinted in Gähde and Hartmann (2005, 3–24).
Thagard, Paul R. 2005b. “Why is Beauty a Road to the Truth?” in Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry, edited by Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda, and Jeanne Peijnenburg, pp. 365–370. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 84. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Thagard, Paul R., ed. 2007a. Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 12. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Thagard, Paul R. 2007b. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2007/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R. 2008a. “Cognitive Science.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 531–542. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Thagard, Paul R. 2008b. “How Cognition Meets Emotion: Beliefs, Desires and Feelings as Neural Activity.” in Epistemology and Emotions, edited by Georg Brun, Ulvi Doĝuoĝlu, and Dominique Künzle, pp. 167–184. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Thagard, Paul R. 2009. “Inference to the Best Inductive Practices [on Harman and Kulkarni (2009)].” Abstracta – Linguagem, Mente e Ação special issue(3): 18–26.
Thagard, Paul R. 2010a. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2010/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R. 2010b. “Explaining Economic Crises: Are There Collective Representations?” Episteme 7(3): 266–283.
Thagard, Paul R. 2011. “Patterns of Medical Discovery.” in Philosophy of Medicine, edited by Fred Gifford, pp. 187–202. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 16. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Thagard, Paul R. 2012. The Cognitive Science of Science. Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Thagard, Paul R. 2014a. “Creative Intuition: How Eureka Results from Three Neural Mechanisms.” in Rational Intuition. Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations, edited by Lisa M. Osbeck and Barbara S. Held, pp. 287–306. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139136419.
Thagard, Paul R. 2014b. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R. 2018. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R. 2021. “How Rationality is Bounded by the Brain.” in Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality, edited by Riccardo Viale, pp. 398–408. Routledge International Handbooks. London: Routledge.
Thagard, Paul R. 2023. “Cognitive Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/cognitive-science/.
Thagard, Paul R. and Finn, Tracy. 2011. “Conscience: What is Moral Intuition?” in Morality and the Emotions, edited by Carla Bagnoli, pp. 150–169. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577507.001.0001.
Thagard, Paul R. and Nowak, Gregory. 1988. “The Explanatory Coherence of Continental Drift.” in PSA 1988: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Jarrett Leplin, pp. 118–126. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Thagard, Paul R. and Shelley, Cameron. 1997. “Abductive Reasoning: Logic, Visual Thinking, and Coherence.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science X: Logic and Scientific Methods – Volume One of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Florence, 1995, edited by Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Kees Doets, Daniele Mundici, and Johan van Benthem, pp. 413–428. Synthese Library n. 259. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Further References

Gähde, Ulrich and Hartmann, Stephan, eds. 2005. Coherence, Truth and Testimony. Berlin: Springer.
Glymour, Clark N. 1992. “Invasion of the Mind Snatchers.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XV: Cognitive Models of Science, edited by Ronald N. Giere, pp. 465–474. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Harman, Gilbert H. and Kulkarni, Sanjeev. 2007. Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Harman, Gilbert H. and Kulkarni, Sanjeev. 2009. “Précis of Harman and Kulkarni (2007).” Abstracta – Linguagem, Mente e Ação special issue(3): 5–9.