Paul
Thagard,
Ph.D., is
a
philosopher,
cognitive
scientist,
and
author
of
many
interdisciplinary
books.
Along
with being a
Distinguished
Professor
Emeritus
of
Philosophy
at
the
University
of
Waterloo,
he
is a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Canada,
the
Cognitive
Science
Society,
and
the
Association
for
Psychological
Science.
The
Canada
Council
awarded
him
a
Molson
Prize
(2007)
and
a Killam
Prize (2013).
Notable
contributions
to
the
field
include
the
following
publications.
In
2021, MIT
Press published
his
book Bots
and
Beasts:
What
Makes
Machines,
Animals,
and
People
Smart? His
new
book
will be
published
by Columbia
University
Press in
June,
2022: Balance:
How
it
works
and
what
it
means. Paul
Thagard’s Treatise
on
Mind
and
Society was
published
by
Oxford
University
Press
in
2019.
