Dr. Paul Thagard

Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, is one of Canada's leading philosophers of science. He has a brilliant academic career and has been working intensively in the philosophy of artificial intelligence and cognitive of science for the past twenty years. His work is marked by many distinctions, most recently by a Killam award for the years 1997-1999 to work on a project entitled "Making Sense: Coherence in Thought and Action". His new book on the philosophy of science as applied to medicine is entitled "How Scientists Explain Disease".