Paul Thagard

ThinkersBorn 1950Philosopher and cognitive scientist

Works

  • Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (with Keith J. Holyoak), MIT Press, 1995

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A philosopher and cognitive scientist at the University of Waterloo who, with Keith Holyoak, argued that analogy is guided by three constraints, similarity, structure, and purpose, and showed analogy at work in science, politics, and everyday reasoning.

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