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which it was specifically meant to brand as pseudoscience. Nonetheless, Thagard, didn't completely abandon his criterion, but instead incorporated it into his new solution to the demarcation problem, which he called "Profile of Science and Pseudoscience", a collection of psychological, historical and
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logical characteristics, against which a discipline could be compared and categorized as either science or pseudoscience. This process, though not "strict necessary or sufficient", could fulfill the normative goals of science, or what Thagard prefers to call "
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However, in 1988, Thagard wrote that this proposal should "be abandoned," because it had two flaws. Firstly it was hopeless to attempt to find necessary and sufficient conditions for pseudoscience in general, and secondly, the criterion was too soft on
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The community of practitioners makes little attempt to develop the theory towards solutions of the problems, shows no concern for attempts to evaluate the theory in relation to others, and is selective in considering confirmations and
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models of coherence to theories of human thought and action. He is also known for HOTCO ("hot coherence"), which was his attempt to create a computer model of cognition that incorporated emotions at a fundamental level.
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In the philosophy of science, Thagard is cited for his work on the use of computational models in explaining conceptual revolutions; his most distinctive contribution to the field is the concept of
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who specializes in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science and medicine. Thagard is a professor emeritus of
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Demarcation: Is there a Sharp Line Between Science and Pseudoscience? An Exploration of Sir Karl Popper's Conception of Falsification
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It has been less progressive than alternative theories over a long period of time, and faces many unsolved problems; but
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Thagard (together with Karsten Verbeurgt) put forth a particular formalization of the concept of coherence as a
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120330081201/http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/tennant9/thagard_JP1978.pdf
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Thagard, P. and Verbeurgt, K. (1998). Coherence as constraint satisfaction. Cognitive Science, 22: 1-24.
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https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=paul%20thagard&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ws
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as "the current philosophy of mathematics that fits best with what is known about minds and science."
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According to Thagard, coherence maximization involves the partitioning of elements into accepted (
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problem. The model posits that coherence operates over a set of representational elements (e.g.,
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Coherentist Theories of Epistemic Justification (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty
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Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty
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Practitioners care about evaluating theories in relation to alternative theories
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The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change.
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Thagard, Paul (1990). "The Conceptual Structure of the Chemical Revolution".
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If two elements p and q cohere they are connected by a positive constraint
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In his general approach to philosophy, Thagard is sharply critical of
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Progresses over time: develops new theories that explain new facts.
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for being overly dependent upon intuitions as a source of evidence.
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Thagard is the author/co-author of 15 books and over 200 articles.
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Hot thought: Mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition
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Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition
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Bots and Beasts: What Make Machines, Animals, and People Smart?
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on September 28, 1950. He is a graduate of the Universities of
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Many of Thagard's coherence articles are available online at
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EXPLANATORY COHERENCE AND BELIEF REVISION IN NAIVE PHYSICS.
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Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions
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Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
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Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity
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incohere they are connected by a negative constraint
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Computational-representational understanding of mind
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in philosophy of science. Faced with the failure of
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(Oxford University Press, 2019). 25: 1750:University of Saskatchewan alumni 1182:The Brain and the Meaning of Life 314:inference to the best explanation 1626:Why Astrology Is A Pseudoscience 1413:"Doctoral Dissertations, 1977". 262: 27:Canadian philosopher (born 1950) 1539:Coherence in Thought and Action 1216:Coherence in Thought and Action 1075:Seeks empirical confirmations. 426:Thagard has proposed that many 233: 1230:How Scientists Explain Disease 929: 917: 753: 741: 678: 666: 617: 605: 591:{\displaystyle (p,q)\in C^{-}} 572: 560: 506:{\displaystyle (p,q)\in C^{+}} 487: 475: 395:, 1997–1998. In 2013 he won a 1: 1765:University of Michigan alumni 1755:University of Toronto alumni 1720:Canadian computer scientists 1078:Neglects empirical matters. 383:in computer science, 1985). 1070:Uses resemblance thinking. 1067:Uses correlation thinking. 968:), and the other rejected ( 656:there is a positive weight 1786: 1185:Princeton University Press 87:University of Saskatchewan 1415:The Review of Metaphysics 910:). 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Index

Thagard, Paul
FRSC
Yorkton
Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan
B.A.
University of Cambridge
M.A.
University of Toronto
Ph.D.
University of Michigan
M.S.
Ziva Kunda
Contemporary philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Naturalism
Epistemic coherentism
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
T. A. Goudge
Bas van Fraassen
Philosophy of mind
Cognitive science
Philosophy of science
Explanatory coherence
FRSC
/ˈθɡɑːrd/
Canadian philosopher
philosophy

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