Overview :Why is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? The Brain and the Meaning of Life draws ... Read More
Overview :Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective, working at the intersection of philos... Read More
Overview :How do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? And how does medical diagnosis cha... Read More
Overview :In this path-breaking work, Paul Thagard draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial i... Read More
Overview :Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested i... Read More
Overview :Dreams, Jokes, and Songs explores the nature and mechanisms of consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience and philosophy. Thagard p... Read More
Overview :Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A danc... Read More
Overview :Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lac... Read More
Overview :How do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind... Read More
Overview :Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice,... Read More
Overview :How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex... Read More
Overview :An expert on mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence. Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpa... Read More