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Keith Oatley, cognitive psychologist and novelist exploring fiction as emotional simulation. Carol Feldman, research psychologist studying how genre and culture shape interpretation. Jerome Bruner, influential theorist of narrative vs. analytical thought. They discuss narrative vs. paradigmatic modes, how genre and culture guide meaning, fiction as simulation and practice, and abduction as everyday reasoning.

Deanna Kuhn, cognitive psychologist who studies argumentative reasoning and metacognition. Paul Thagard, philosopher-cognitive scientist defending rationalist accounts of conceptual change. Geoffrey Lloyd, historian of ancient science exploring Greek and Chinese thought. They discuss how social contexts shape scientific styles, rational models of conceptual revolutions, and whether ordinary reasoning uses argument and metacognition.

Ian Hacking, philosopher of science known for work on statistics and normality, and Scott Atran, cognitive anthropologist studying folk taxonomy, discuss how human minds form innate taxonomies and how scientific classification diverges from common sense. They explore the feedback between social labels and behavior, the rise of statistical normality, and how classifications reshape identities and reasoning.