Paul Thagard | Academic Influence

Paul Thagard's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Paul Thagard

Philosophy

#266

World Rank

#616

Historical Rank

Logic

#162

World Rank

#379

Historical Rank

philosophy Degrees

Download Badge

Philosophy

Paul Thagard's Degrees

Bachelors Psychology University of British Columbia

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Psychology 2025

Why Is Paul Thagard Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Paul Richard Thagard is a Canadian philosopher who specializes in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science and medicine. Thagard is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Waterloo. He is a writer, and has contributed to research in analogy and creativity, inference, cognition in the history of science, and the role of emotion in cognition.

(See a Problem?)

Paul Thagard's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery (1987) (2294)
Analogical Mapping by Constraint Satisfaction (1989) (1408)
Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (1994) (1347)
Explanatory coherence (1989) (871)
Computational Philosophy of Science (1988) (808)
Coherence in Thought and Action (2000) (738)
FORMING IMPRESSIONS FROM STEREOTYPES, TRAITS, AND BEHAVIORS : A PARALLEL-CONSTRAINT-SATISFACTION THEORY (1996) (737)
The analogical mind. (1997) (713)
Epistemology and cognition (1991) (536)
The Best Explanation: Criteria for Theory Choice (1978) (493)
Knowledge in Flux (1991) (486)
Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (1999) (471)
Induction: Processes Of Inference (1989) (357)
Concepts (2019) (303)
Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction (2019) (284)
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (1996) (282)
Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition (2006) (267)
Analog Wetrieval by Constraint Satisfaction (1990) (266)
The AHA! Experience: Creativity Through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks (2011) (221)
Abductive Reasoning: Logic, Visual Thinking, and Coherence (1997) (209)
How Scientists Explain Disease (1999) (188)
Emotion and action (2002) (161)
Analogy, Explanation, and Education. (1992) (160)
Integrating structure and meaning: a distributed model of analogical mapping (2001) (154)
Coherence, Truth, and the Development of Scientific Knowledge* (2007) (144)
Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience (1978) (128)
Modelling Conceptual Revolutions (1996) (128)
From the Descriptive to the Normative in Psychology and Logic (1982) (122)
The affective meanings of automatic social behaviors: three mechanisms that explain priming. (2013) (121)
Why wasn't O.J. convicted? Emotional coherence in legal inference (2003) (115)
Scientific change: Philosophical models and historical research (1986) (114)
Conceptual Revolutions (2018) (113)
A computational model of analogical problem solving (1989) (112)
CAUSAL INFERENCE IN LEGAL DECISION MAKING: EXPLANATORY COHERENCE VS. BAYESIAN NETWORKS (2004) (111)
Variability and confirmation (1982) (108)
Explaining Disease: Correlations, Causes, and Mechanisms (1998) (108)
Is the Brain a Quantum Computer? (2006) (107)
Mind: Introduction to cognitive science, 2nd ed. (2005) (103)
Emotional consciousness: A neural model of how cognitive appraisal and somatic perception interact to produce qualitative experience (2008) (100)
Rationality and Charity (1983) (98)
Book review: Abduetive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem Solving by Y. Peng and J. Reggia (Springer Verlag New York 1990) (1990) (94)
Pathways to Biomedical Discovery (2003) (93)
Spiking Phineas Gage: a neurocomputational theory of cognitive-affective integration in decision making. (2004) (92)
Adversarial Problem Solving: Modeling an Oponent Using Explanatory Coherence (1992) (84)
A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems (2013) (83)
Business. (2018) (80)
Empathy and Analogy (1997) (79)
Parallel Computation and the Mind-Body Problem (1986) (79)
Emotional Gestalts: Appraisal, Change, and the Dynamics of Affect (2002) (75)
Ulcers and Bacteria I: Discovery and Acceptance (1998) (75)
Explanatory Coherence and Belief Revision in Naive Physics (1988) (74)
Concepts as Semantic Pointers: A Framework and Computational Model (2016) (74)
Inference to the best plan: A coherence theory of decision. (1997) (72)
Concepts and conceptual change (1990) (69)
Why Cognitive Science Needs Philosophy and Vice Versa (2009) (66)
Getting to Darwin: Obstacles to Accepting Evolution by Natural Selection (2010) (65)
Probabilistic Networks and Explanatory Coherence. (1997) (62)
Inductive Reasoning: Abductive Inference: From Philosophical Analysis to Neural Mechanisms (2007) (62)
The Conceptual Structure of the Chemical Revolution (1990) (57)
Neural affective decision theory: Choices, brains, and emotions (2008) (57)
The Cognitive Basis of Science: The passionate scientist: emotion in scientific cognition (2002) (55)
Autism and Coherence: A Computational Model (2000) (55)
Societies of minds: Science as distributed computing (1993) (54)
Procedural knowledge in molecular biology (2003) (53)
Rationality and Science (2004) (50)
How Brains Make Mental Models (2010) (49)
The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change (2012) (47)
Making sense of people: Coherence mechanisms (1997) (46)
Testimony, Credibility, and Explanatory Coherence (2005) (46)
How to Collaborate: Procedural Knowledge in the Cooperative Development of Science (2006) (45)
The Emotional Coherence of Religion (2005) (44)
Models of Scientific Explanation (2008) (42)
Coherent and Creative Conceptual Combinations. (1997) (42)
Intention, Emotion, and Action: A Neural Theory Based on Semantic Pointers (2014) (42)
The Brain and the Meaning of Life (2010) (42)
Scientific discovery and technological innovation: ulcers, dinosaur extinction, and the programming language java (1999) (42)
Against Evolutionary Epistemology (1980) (42)
An Extended Theory of Human Problem Solving (2005) (41)
Evaluating Explanations in Law, Science, and Everyday Life (2006) (41)
Dynamic Imagery: A Computational Model of Motion and Visual Analogy (2002) (40)
Moral Intuition (2020) (40)
Conceptual Combination and Scientific Discovery (1984) (40)
Two theories of consciousness: Semantic pointer competition vs. information integration (2014) (39)
Philosophy of psychology and cognitive science (2007) (39)
The Moral Psychology of Conflicts of Interest: Insights from Affective Neuroscience (2007) (39)
Changing personalities: towards realistic virtual characters (2005) (38)
Mind, Society, and the Growth of Knowledge (1994) (38)
EMPATHICA: A Computer Support System with Visual Representations for Cognitive-Affective Mapping (2010) (38)
Waves, Particles, and Explanatory Coherence (1997) (36)
The self as a system of multilevel interacting mechanisms (2014) (36)
Changing Minds About Climate Change: Belief Revision, Coherence, and Emotion (2011) (35)
The Concept of Disease: Structure and Change (1996) (35)
Darwin and Whewell (1977) (35)
Conceptual change in the history of science:life mind, and disease (2013) (34)
Self-Deception and Emotional Coherence (2003) (34)
Computational Tractability and Conceptual Coherence: Why Do Computer Scientists Believe that P≠NP? (1993) (32)
COHERENCE: THE PRICE IS RIGHT (2012) (31)
Epistemological Metaphors and the Nature of Philosophy (2004) (31)
Discovering the Wave Theory of Sound: Inductive Inference in the Context of Problem Solving (1985) (31)
Emotional consensus in group decision making (2006) (31)
How Molecules Matter to Mental Computation (2002) (30)
Mapping Minds across Cultures (29)
Connectionism and epistemology: Goldman on winner-take-all networks (1989) (29)
CREATIVE COMBINATION OF REPRESENTATIONS: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION (2010) (28)
The Conceptual Structure of Social Disputes (2014) (28)
Introduction to Cognitive Science (1996) (27)
Copernicus, Ptolemy, and explanatory coherence (1992) (27)
How parts make up wholes (2012) (27)
Internet Epistemology: Contributions of New Information Technologies to Scientific Research (1997) (27)
Emotional Change in International Negotiation: Analyzing the Camp David Accords Using Cognitive-Affective Maps (2014) (27)
Priming: Constraint Satisfaction and Interactive Competition (2014) (27)
Dimensions of Analogy (1988) (26)
Perspectives on Conceptual Change (2000) (24)
Thought Experiments Considered Harmful (2014) (23)
The Brain is Wider than the Sky: Analogy, Emotion, and Allegory (2011) (23)
Ulcers and bacteria II: Instruments, experiments, and social interactions (1998) (23)
Desires Are Not Propositional Attitudes (2006) (22)
Knowledge and Coherence (2002) (22)
Critical Thinking and Informal Logic: Neuropsychological Perspectives (2011) (21)
Mind-Society (2019) (21)
Explaining Economic Crises: Are There Collective Representations? (2010) (20)
Brain-Mind (2019) (20)
Deliberative coherence (2004) (20)
WHY IS BEAUTY A ROAD TO THE TRUTH (2005) (19)
Defending explanatory coherence (1989) (19)
What is Doubt and When is it Reasonable? (2004) (18)
Creative Cognition in Social Innovation (2014) (18)
Scientific Cognition: Hot or Cold? (1989) (17)
Natural Philosophy (2019) (17)
The Cognitive–Affective Structure of Political Ideologies (2015) (17)
Computation and the Philosophy of Science (1993) (16)
Robosemantics: How Stanley the Volkswagen Represents the World (2008) (16)
Philosophy and Machine Learning (1990) (16)
Chemical Analogies: Two Kinds of Explanation (1989) (15)
Acupuncture, Incommensurability, and Conceptual Change (2003) (15)
The Explanatory Coherence of Continental Drift (1988) (15)
Philosophy of Physics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science) 2 volume set (2006) (14)
The semantic pointer theory of emotion: Integrating physiology, appraisal, and construction (2019) (14)
Mental Illness from the Perspective of Theoretical Neuroscience (2008) (14)
Creativity in Computer Science (2004) (14)
Frames, knowledge, and inference (1984) (13)
Explanatory Identities and Conceptual Change (2014) (13)
4 What is a medical theory? (2005) (13)
Theory and experiment in cognitive science (2007) (13)
Eighty phenomena about the self: representation, evaluation, regulation, and change (2015) (13)
Conscience What is Moral Intuition ? (2011) (13)
The representational and the presentational: An essay on cognition and the study of mind (1996) (11)
Reasoning: Explanatory Coherence (2008) (11)
Creative Combination of Representations (2012) (10)
Hegel, science, and set theory (1982) (10)
Mind readings : introductory selections on cognitive science (1998) (10)
Why Losses Loom Larger than Gains: Modeling Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive-Affective Interaction (2006) (10)
How to Play the Ultimatum Game: An Engineering Approach to Metanormativity (2008) (9)
Strategies for conceptual change: Ratio and proportion in classical Greek mathematics (1995) (9)
Medical analogies: Why and How? (1997) (9)
Extending explanatory coherence (1989) (9)
Introduction to the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science (2007) (9)
Philosophy of economics (2012) (9)
Curing cancer? Patrick Lee's path to the reovirus treatment (2002) (9)
Philosophical and computational models of explanation (1991) (9)
Mudança científica: modelos filosóficos e pesquisa histórica (1993) (8)
Atoms, Categorization, and Conceptual Change (2005) (8)
Being Interdisciplinary: Trading Zones in Cognitive Science (2006) (8)
Value Maps in Applied Ethics (2015) (8)
Welcome to the Cognitive Revolution (1989) (8)
Semiotics and Hypothetic Inference in C. S. Peirce (1978) (8)
How Cognition Meets Emotion: Beliefs, Desires, and Feelings as Neural Activity (2007) (7)
Rational Intuition: Creative Intuition: How Eureka Results from Three Neural Mechanisms (2012) (7)
THE EMERGENCE OF MEANING: HOW TO ESCAPE SEARLE'S CHINESE ROOM (1986) (7)
Using computational neuroscience to investigate the neural correlates of cognitive-affective integration during covert decision making (2003) (7)
The Autonomy of a Logic of Discovery (1981) (6)
Computational Models in the Philosophy of Science (1986) (6)
Emotional Cognition in Urban Planning and Design (2016) (6)
Fear-Driven Inference: Mechanisms of Gut Overreaction (2014) (6)
Philosophy of Mathematics (2009) (6)
I FEEL YOUR PAIN: MIRROR NEURONS, EMPATHY, AND MORAL MOTIVATION (2007) (5)
Empiricism, Realism, and Religion (2002) (5)
Social Equality: Cognitive Modeling Based on Emotional Coherence Explains Attitude Change (2018) (5)
L. Magnani: Abductive cognition: the epistemological and eco-cognitive dimensions of hypothetical reasoning (2010) (5)
Computational Models in Science and Philosophy (2018) (5)
Naturalizing Logic: How Knowledge of Mechanisms Enhances Inductive Inference (2021) (5)
Computing in the Philosophy of Science (2008) (4)
Creative Intuition : How Eureka Results from Three Neural Mechanisms paul thagard introduction (2012) (4)
Chapter 10 – ATOMS, CATEGORIZATION AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE (2005) (4)
From the Descriptive to the Normative (1993) (4)
Mental health assessment: Inference, explanation, and coherence (2018) (4)
The cognitive science of COVID-19: Acceptance, denial, and belief change (2021) (4)
Emotional Change in International Negotiation: Analyzing the Camp David Accords Using Cognitive-Affective Maps (2011) (4)
Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? (2021) (3)
Abduction and Scientific Discovery (1998) (3)
Variability and Conﬁrmation (1993) (3)
Mind, Consciousness, and Free Will (2018) (3)
Values in Science: Cognitive-Affective Maps (2013) (2)
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and the Philosophy of Discovery (1982) (2)
What Is Cognitive Science?Barbara Von Eckardt (1995) (2)
Emotional change: Neural mechanisms based on semantic pointers. (2021) (2)
Deductive reasoning (1993) (2)
Fallacies Of Practical Reasoning (1983) (2)
Patterns of Medical Discovery (2011) (2)
In defence of deductive inference (1979) (2)
HANNE ANDERSEN, PETER BARKER and XIAN CHEN The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2009) (2)
Beyond Utility Theory (1981) (2)
Artistic Genius and Creative Cognition (2014) (2)
Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science: A Volume of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science) (2006) (2)
Perception and Imagery (2019) (2)
How rationality is bounded by the brain (2020) (1)
Friedel Weinert: Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science (2011) (1)
19. Rationality and Science (2004) (1)
How Does Current AI Stack Up Against Human Intelligence? (2019) (1)
REPRESENTING IMAGERY (1993) (1)
Nihilism, skepticism, and philosophical method: A response to Landau on coherence and the meaning of life (2013) (1)
A estrutura conceitual da revolução química (2010) (1)
Michael Ruse Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense? (Boston: Kluwer1979) (1981) (1)
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism (2022) (1)
Rescher, Nicholas., Pragmatism: The Restoration of its Scientific Roots (2013) (1)
CHAPTER 3. Conceptual Change (1992) (1)
Bereiter on knowledge (1992) (1)
Conceptual Change in the History of Science (2013) (1)
How Do Medical Researchers Make Causal Inferences? (2019) (1)
Value Maps in Applied Ethics in advance (2014) (1)
Explaining Scientific Change: Integrating the Cognitive and the Social (1994) (1)
Balance (2022) (1)
Conceptual change in medicine: Explaining mental illness (2011) (1)
Reply to Krellenstein on Parallel Computation (1987) (1)
Visual thinking in discovery and invention: From physics to cognitive social science (2011) (1)
Emoções e epistemologia (2022) (0)
Preface. (1998) (0)
False photos, false beliefs, and coherence: A response to Kamawar et al. (2002) (0)
The role of psychology in science studies (2013) (0)
Theories and Explanations (1993) (0)
Business: Leadership and Marketing (2019) (0)
Future Philosophy (2019) (0)
Mathematical Knowledge and Reality (2020) (0)
Chapter Ten. Making Sense Of It All (2010) (0)
Psychology meets philosophy. (1984) (0)
Epistemology and Explanation. (1989) (0)
Explanation and Scientific Inference (1977) (0)
Alternative Methods for Psychological Research. (1984) (0)
A large-scale neurocomputational model of emotional decision making (2007) (0)
Neural Synchrony Through Controlled Tracking (2001) (0)
A Cognitive Architecture for Solving Ill-Structured Problems (1997) (0)
Emotional Cognition in the Real World (2007) (0)
What's New in the Philosophy of Mind. (2003) (0)
McKirahan, Richard D. Jr.(1992), Principles and Proofs. Aristotle's Theory of Demon-strative Science, Princeton University Press, Princeton, xiv+ 340 pp., $47.50 (1993) (0)
The Process of Inquiry: Projects for Computational Philosophy of Science (1993) (0)
Is Meaning Nonphysical? (2020) (0)
10. Response to Vollmer's Review of Minds and Molecules Response to Vollmer's Review of Minds and Molecules (pp. 391-398) (2003) (0)
Law (2019) (0)
Social Mechanisms (2019) (0)
Conceptual Change Types of Conceptual Change Conceptual Change in Scientists (0)
INFERENCE TO THE BEST INDUCTIVE PRACTICES (2009) (0)
Creativity (2019) (0)
Free and conscious? (2002) (0)
Justice (2019) (0)
1 Fear-Driven Inference: Mechanisms 2 of Gut Overreaction (2013) (0)
HPSC2901 (Advanced) 'What is this thing called science?' (2012) (0)
Appendix 2: Specification of PI (1993) (0)
Education: Teaching and Conceptual Change (2019) (0)
The role of psychology in science studies (2012) (0)
Engineering (2019) (0)
G Sun — Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences 2 Mapping Minds across Cultures (2012) (0)
Law: Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Responsibility (2019) (0)
What Are Minds? (2019) (0)
AESTHETIC INDUCTION VERSUS COHERENCE THAGARD (2006) (0)
2 Perception Preattentive and Phenomenal (2006) (0)
EMOTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS: A NEUROCOMPUTATIONAL THEORY (2006) (0)
Chapter Four. How Brains Know Reality (2010) (0)
Engineering: Creative Design (2019) (0)
Aesthetic induction versus coherence . Reply to (2006) (0)
Medicine: Mental Illness (2019) (0)
Zenon W. Pylyshyn and William Demopoulos, eds. , Meaning and Cognitive Structure: Issues in the Computational Theory of Mind . Reviewed by (1987) (0)
Acupuncture, Incommensurability, and Conceptual Change 1 (2001) (0)
Psychology, statistics, and analytical epistemology (1983) (0)
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms (2022) (0)
Appendix 3: Sample Run of PI (1993) (0)
CHAPTER 10. Conceptual Change in Scientists and Children (1992) (0)
Conceptual change in cognitive science: The brain revolution (2011) (0)
Analogies (2019) (0)
Appendix I: Tutorials (1993) (0)
Instrumentalism (2021) (0)
MEANING (2019) (0)
Sociology: Prejudice and Discrimination (2019) (0)
Discovery and the Emergence of Meaning (1993) (0)
Chapter Three. Minds are Brains (2010) (0)
ECONOMIC EXPLANATIONS (2020) (0)
Education (2019) (0)
Paradigms and Revolutions (1982) (0)
Chapter Seven. Why Life Is Worth Living (2010) (0)
How Brains Make Minds (2019) (0)
Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology (1996) (0)
Beauty and Beyond (2019) (0)
Justification and Truth (1993) (0)
Chapter Five. How Brains Feel Emotions (2010) (0)
Sociology (2019) (0)
Chapter Nine. Ethical Brains (2010) (0)
Chapter Eight. Needs and Hopes (2010) (0)
Mind (2019) (0)
Rules (2019) (0)
Anthropology (2019) (0)
Science, Pseudo-Science and Society Essays (1980) (0)
Mental Mechanisms (2019) (0)
Chapter One. We All Need Wisdom (2010) (0)
Explanatory Identities and Conceptual Change (2014) (0)
Politics (2019) (0)
Symposium: Creative Cognition - eScholarship (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Concepts and Conceptual Systems (1992) (0)
Economics: Bubbles and Crashes (2019) (0)
Symposium on Collaborative Knowledge (2019) (0)
The Strucfure of Scientific Knowledge (1993) (0)
Morality (2019) (0)
History and International Relations (2019) (0)
Models of Human Scientific Discovery (2018) (0)
The Self (2019) (0)
Running head : AUTISM AND COHERENCE Word count : 6 , 185 Autism and Coherence : A Computational Model (2001) (0)
Consciousness (2019) (0)
Reality (1990) (0)
Creative Cognition in Social Innovation Mingming (2014) (0)
Emotions (2019) (0)
In defense of computational philosophy of science (1991) (0)
University of Groningen Aesthetic induction versus coherence . Reply to (2006) (0)
Social Psychology (2019) (0)
Three faces of desire. Commentary (2006) (0)
Chapter Two. Evidence Beats Faith (2010) (0)
Explaining Social Change (2019) (0)
VisWeek Keynote Address (2011) (0)
The pragmatics of induction (1986) (0)
Philosophy Matters (2019) (0)
Economics (2019) (0)
Knowledge (2019) (0)
A Cognitive Architecture for Solving III-Defined Problems. (1995) (0)
Symposium: Creative Cognition (2014) (0)
Action and Intention (2019) (0)
Introduction (1998) (0)
Chapter Six. How Brains Decide (2010) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Paul Thagard

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Paul Thagard?

Paul Thagard is affiliated with the following schools: