A leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works-and breaks down.

Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory’s numerous psychological and philosophical applications.

A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.

Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts. Natural Philosophy brings new methods for…

Covers a range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. This title includes chapters that examine such general…

Investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This title lays out the philosophical background in preparation for the papers that follow, which demonstrate…