# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-thagard
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:18.130Z

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name: "Paul Thagard"
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description: "Paul Richard Thagard is a Canadian philosopher who specializes in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science and medicine. Thagard is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Waterloo. He is a writer, and has contributed to research in analogy and creativity, inference, cognition in the history of science, and the role of emotion in cognition."
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birthDate: "1950-09-28"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump