Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

By Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard, Keith James Holyoak

Computational Philosophy of Science

By Paul Thagard

Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science

By Paul Thagard

Coherence in Thought and Action

By Paul Thagard

"This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representation...

Mind, 2nd Edition: Introduction to Cognitive Science

By Paul Thagard

Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition

By Paul Thagard

Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

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

Mental Leaps

By Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard

Analogy—recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones—is a mental tool that everyone uses. Analogy can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. I...

Mind Readings

By Paul Thagard

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind will find the selec...

Coherence in Thought and Action

By Paul Thagard

This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations...