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  • Balance: How It Works and What It Means by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Balance: How It Works and What It Means

    Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A dancer's poised elegance and a tightrope walker's breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Language abounds with expressions and figures of...
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  • Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?

    An expert on mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence. Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But...
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  • Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?

    An expert on mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence. Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But...
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  • Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society) by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society)

    How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Neural mechanisms are used to explain mental operations for analogy, action, intention, language,...
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  • Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society) by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society)

    How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Neural mechanisms are used to explain mental operations for analogy, action, intention, language,...
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  • Coherence in Thought and Action by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Coherence in Thought and Action

    This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. Paul Thagard...
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  • Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

    Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist...
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  • Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

    Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist...
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  • Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions (Treatise on Mind and Society) by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions (Treatise on Mind and Society)

    How do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind with major social sciences (social psychology, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, and history) and professions (medicine, law, education, engineering, and business). Social change emerges from...
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  • Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Treatise on Mind and Society) by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Treatise on Mind and Society)

    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 analyzing concepts, understanding values, and achieving coherence. It shows how to unify the humanities...
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  • The Brain and the Meaning of Life by Thagard, Paul
    Paul Thagard

    The Brain and the Meaning of Life

    How brain science answers the most intriguing questions about the meaning of life Why is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? The Brain and the Meaning of Life draws on research in...
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