Peter Gärdenfors

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According to Wikipedia, Björn Peter Gärdenfors is professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden. Gärdenfors is a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize . He received his doctorate from Lund University in 1974. Internationally, he is one of Sweden's most notable philosophers. In 1996, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and in 2009 he became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is member of Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher and of Academia Europaea. In 2014 Gärdenfors was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. He was a member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011-2017.

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On the logic of theory change: Partial meet contraction and revision functions (1985) (3302)
Conceptual spaces - the geometry of thought (2000) (983)
Knowledge in Flux (1988) (723)
Revisions of Knowledge Systems Using Epistemic Entrenchment (1988) (559)
Belief Revision (1995) (540)
Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States (2008) (466)
The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces (2014) (349)
Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking (2018) (335)
Nonmonotonic Inference Based on Expectations (1994) (302)
Manipulation of social choice functions (1976) (247)
Unreliable probabilities, risk taking, and decision making (1982) (237)
Relations between the logic of theory change and nonmonotonic logic (1989) (224)
Belief Revisions and the Ramsey Test for Conditionals (1986) (212)
Belief Revision: Belief revision: An introduction (1992) (175)
Conceptual spaces as a framework for knowledge representation (2004) (165)
Match making: Assignments based on bilateral preferences (1975) (159)
Rights, Games and Social Choice (1981) (144)
Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI (1990) (128)
How to make the Semantic Web more semantic (2004) (123)
Decision, Probability, and Utility : Selected Readings (1988) (122)
The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens (2017) (120)
Decision, Probability, and Utility (1988) (116)
Reasoning about Categories in Conceptual Spaces (2001) (113)
Knowledge, belief, and strategic interaction: The dynamics of belief systems: Foundations versus coherence theories (1992) (111)
Unreliable probabilities, risk taking and decision making (1988) (110)
Epistemic importance and minimal changes of belief (1984) (107)
Decision making with unreliable probabilities (1983) (103)
The Dynamics of Belief Systems : Foundations vs . Coherence Theories (1990) (100)
Positionalist voting functions (1973) (92)
The emergence of meaning (1993) (90)
Cued and detached representations in animal cognition (1995) (89)
Co-operation and communication in apes and humans (2003) (85)
Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Logic: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (Abstract) (1990) (81)
Belief Revision: Contents (1992) (80)
Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication (2004) (79)
A REPRESENTATION THEOREM FOR VOTING WITH LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES (2006) (78)
Using Conceptual Spaces to Model Actions and Events (2012) (77)
How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking (2003) (77)
Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces (2007) (68)
Imaging and Conditionalization (1982) (68)
Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs (2012) (68)
Cognition, Education and Communication Technology (2005) (67)
Generalized Quantifiers: Linguistic and Logical Approaches (1981) (66)
Qualitative probability as an intensional logic (1975) (66)
Bodily mimesisas “the missing link” in human cognitive evolution (2005) (61)
Semantics, conceptual spaces, and the meeting of minds (2013) (57)
Applications of conceptual spaces : the case for geometric knowledge representation (2015) (56)
Cognitive semantics : meaning and cognition (1999) (54)
The Role of Expectations in Reasoning (1992) (51)
Nonmonotonic Inferences in Neural Networks (1991) (50)
Assignment Problem Based on Ordinal Preferences (1973) (48)
Theory change as dimensional change: conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories (2013) (46)
A Pragmatic Approach to Explanations (1980) (45)
Time, space, and events in language and cognition: a comparative view (2014) (42)
In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Vol II) (2002) (40)
Three levels of inductive inference (1995) (40)
Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication (2010) (40)
Relevance and Redundancy in Deductive Explanations (1976) (39)
Bets and beliefs (1988) (39)
Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces (2007) (36)
Demonstration and Pantomime in the Evolution of Teaching (2017) (36)
Representing part–whole relations in conceptual spaces (2013) (35)
Some tenets of cognitive semantics (1999) (35)
Variations on the Ramsey test: More triviality results (1987) (34)
On the logic of relevance (1978) (34)
The Dynamics of Thought (2005) (34)
Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories (2011) (33)
Forecasts, decisions and uncertain probabilities (1979) (33)
Evidentiary value : philosophical, judicial and psychological aspects of a theory : essays dedicated to Sören Halldén on his sixtieth birthday (1983) (32)
Causal Cognition, Force Dynamics and Early Hunting Technologies (2018) (31)
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence And Inference (2013) (31)
Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity (2007) (30)
Mental representation, conceptual spaces and metaphors (2004) (30)
Linguistic Modality as Expressions of Social Power (1995) (30)
How logic emerges from the dynamics of information (1994) (30)
A guide to intensional semantics (1973) (27)
Belief Revision: A Vade-Mecum (1992) (27)
Symbolic, Conceptual and Subconceptual Representations (1997) (27)
Cognitive science: From computers to anthills as models of human thought (1999) (27)
Knowing, Learning and Teaching—How Homo Became Docens (2015) (26)
Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans. (2017) (26)
Conceptual Spaces as a Basis for Cognitive Semantics (1996) (26)
Locative and Directional Prepositions in Conceptual Spaces: The Role of Polar Convexity (2016) (25)
Nonmonotonic Inferences Based on Expectations: A Preliminary Report (1991) (24)
Meanings as Conceptual Structures (1995) (23)
Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics (2006) (23)
Introduction : Bayesian decision theory, foundations and problems (1988) (23)
The Dynamics of Belief as a Basis for Logic (1984) (22)
What Is Semantics (2014) (22)
Attention as a minimal criterion of intentionality in robots (2002) (22)
Probabilistic Reasoning and Evidentiary Value (2005) (22)
A concise proof of theorem on manipulation of social choice functions (1977) (22)
Spaces in the Brain: From Neurons to Meanings (2016) (22)
The Role of Intersubjectivity in Animal and Human Cooperation (2008) (21)
The Cognitive and Communicative Demands of Cooperation (2012) (20)
Language and the Evolution of Cognition (1995) (20)
Editorial: Cognitive Semantics and Spatio-Temporal Ontologies (2007) (19)
What are natural concepts? A design perspective (2020) (19)
We and they (2007) (18)
Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces (2011) (18)
Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning (2020) (18)
First and second order dynamics in a hierarchical SOM system for action recognition (2017) (18)
The role of indirect reciprocity and theory of mind in interpreting ornaments : commentary on C. S. Henshilwood and B. Dubreuil: “The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, 77-59 ka" (2010) (18)
The detachment of thought (2005) (17)
From Sensations to Concepts: a Proposal for Two Learning Processes (2019) (17)
Slicing the theory of mind (2001) (16)
The origin of symbols in the brain (2000) (15)
Knowledge in Flux. Modelling the Dymanics of Epistemic States (1988) (14)
CONCEPT FORMATION IN DIMENSIONAL SPACES (1994) (14)
Smart people who make simple heuristics work (2000) (14)
Proceedings of the international conference on Spatial Cognition VI: Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space (2008) (14)
Causation and the Dynamics of Belief (1988) (14)
Introduction to cognition, education, and communication technology (2005) (14)
Does Semantics Need Reality (1999) (13)
Individual decision making under uncertainty (1988) (13)
Representation and self-awareness in intentional agents (2004) (13)
Propositional logic based on the dynamics of belief (1985) (13)
Construals of meaning: The role of attention in robotic language production (2016) (13)
Concept combination: a geometrical model (2000) (13)
Modeling Diachronic Changes in Structuralism and in Conceptual Spaces (2014) (12)
Action Recognition Online with Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps (2016) (12)
Communication, rationality and conceptual changes in scientific theories (2015) (12)
Building rich and grounded robot world models from sensors and knowledge resources: A conceptual spaces approach (2003) (12)
Triadic bodily mimesis is the difference (2005) (12)
Category-based induction in conceptual spaces (2020) (12)
From Actions to Effects: Three Constraints on Event Mappings (2018) (11)
What is a domain? Dimensional structures versus meronomic relations (2013) (11)
Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology (2021) (11)
A Semantic Theory of Word Classes (2014) (11)
Notes on the History of Ideas Behind AGM (2011) (11)
The development of semantic space for pointing and verbal communication (2008) (10)
Interpreting Robot Pointing Behavior (2013) (10)
A Geometric Model of Concept Formation (1992) (10)
Online Recognition of Actions Involving Objects (2017) (10)
Mind-reading as Control Theory (2007) (9)
From Focused Thought to Reveries: A Memory System for a Conscious Robot (2018) (9)
Semantic Knowledge, Domains of Meaning and Conceptual Spaces (2017) (9)
The Tripod Effect: Co-evolution of Cooperation, Cognition and Communication (2012) (9)
A grounding framework (2009) (9)
The evolution of sentential structure (2014) (9)
The evolution of anticipatory cognition as a precursor to symbolic communication (2005) (9)
The negative Ramsey test: another triviality result (1989) (9)
Using conceptual spaces to exhibit conceptual continuity through scientific theory change (2017) (9)
An Oscillator Model of Categorical Rhythm Perception (2013) (8)
The dynamics of belief: Contractions and revisions of probability functions (1986) (8)
Hierarchical Self-organizing Maps System for Action Classification (2017) (8)
Concept learning: A geometrical model (2001) (8)
Events and Causal Mappings Modeled in Conceptual Spaces (2020) (8)
Induction and knowledge-what (2018) (8)
Why don't chimps talk and humans sing like canaries? (2006) (8)
The Pragmatic Role of Modality in Natural Language (2005) (8)
Children, Teaching and the Evolution of Humankind (2015) (8)
Choice blindness and the non-unitary nature of the human mind (2011) (8)
Emulators as sources of hidden cognitive variables (2004) (7)
Classical Conditioning in Social Robots (2014) (7)
Levels of communication and lexical semantics (2018) (7)
The impossibility of a paretian loyalist (1989) (7)
Directing human attention with pointing (2014) (6)
Forecasting nonstationary time series—Some methodological aspects (1980) (6)
Belief Revision and Relevance (1990) (6)
The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language (2013) (6)
Dynamic models as tools for forecasting and planning: A presentation and some methodological aspects (1982) (5)
Filtrations and the Finite Frame Property in Boolean Semantics (1975) (5)
Evolutionary mechanisms of teaching. (2015) (5)
A prototype-based resonance model of rhythm categorization (2014) (5)
The Geometry Of Preposition Meanings (2015) (5)
Some basic theorems of qualitative probability (1975) (5)
On the extensions of S5 (1973) (5)
Mindreading and control theory (2007) (5)
What are the evolutionary causes of mental time travel (2007) (4)
Nonmonotonic inference, expectations, and neural networks (1991) (4)
Belief Revision and Knowledge Representation (1996) (4)
Situated Counting (2020) (4)
Editors’ Introduction: Conceptual Spaces at Work (2015) (4)
On the information provided by forecasting models (1980) (4)
SPEAKING ABOUT THE INNER ENVIRONMENT (1995) (4)
Planning from first principles (1992) (4)
Multi-agent communication, planning and collaboration based on perceptions, conceptions and simulations (2008) (4)
Semantic domains of demonstratives and articles: A view of deictic referentiality explored on the paradigm of Croatian demonstratives (2018) (4)
Event Boards as Tools for Holistic AI (2018) (4)
EVOLVING SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS ON INDIVIDUAL CONCEPTUAL REPRESENTATIONS (1998) (4)
BELIEF REVISIONS AND THE RAMSEY TEST (1986) (4)
Cooperation in apes and humans (2003) (3)
Epistemic Importance and the Logic of Theory Change (1985) (3)
David Makinson and the extension of classical logic (2014) (3)
2. Understanding Cultural Patterns (2007) (3)
Technology made us understand abstract causality (2020) (3)
Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication (2021) (3)
An epistemic analysis of explanations and causal beliefs (1990) (3)
Concept learning and non-monotonic reasoning (2005) (3)
Causal Reasoning and Event Cognition as Evolutionary Determinants of Language Structure (2021) (3)
A Framework for Representing Action Meaning in Artificial Systems via Force Dimensions (2012) (3)
Conceptual spaces and the strength of similarity-based arguments (2022) (3)
The learning brain, the learning individual, the learning organisation (2004) (3)
Pantomime as a Foundation for Ritual and Language (2018) (3)
Primary Cognitive Categories Are Determined by Their Invariances (2020) (3)
Structure, Similarity and Spaces (2013) (3)
Reasoning in conceptual spaces (2008) (3)
In the scope of logic, methodology and philosophy of science : 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999 (2002) (3)
Understanding by experiencing patterns (2008) (3)
Intuition as implicit knowledge (2000) (3)
Chapter 37 – CONCEPT LEARNING AND NONMONOTONIC REASONING1 (2005) (3)
Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications (2019) (3)
The false dichotomy of domain-specific versus domain-general cognition (2017) (3)
HUMAN COMMUNICATION: WHAT HAPPENS? (1995) (2)
The evolution of anticipatory cognition as a precursor to language (2005) (2)
Using Event Representations to Generate Robot Semantics (2019) (2)
Replies to comments (2012) (2)
On the information about individual utilities used in social choice (1983) (2)
Fairness without interpersonal comparisons (2008) (2)
The role of understanding in human nature (2010) (2)
Synesthetic Associations Between Voice and Gestures in Preverbal Infants: Weak Effects and Methodological Concerns (2018) (2)
The role of memory in planning and pretense (1997) (2)
Apprenticeship lithic debitage. Examples from a 27.3 ka cal BP Gravettian collection from Bistricioara-Lutărie III (Ceahlău Basin, NE Romania) (2019) (2)
The Missing Link Between Memory and Reinforcement Learning (2020) (2)
Concept modeling, essential properties, and similarity spaces (2001) (2)
From Pantomime to Protolanguage (2020) (2)
The Social Stance And Its Relation To Intersubjectivity (2009) (2)
Evolution of intentional teaching (2021) (2)
Foresight, function representation, and social intelligence in the great apes (2012) (2)
Convexity Is an Empirical Law in the Theory of Conceptual Spaces: Reply to Hernández-Conde (2019) (2)
Induction and the Evolution of Conceptual Spaces (2007) (1)
A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science (2008) (1)
Decisions and Revisions: Philosophical Essays on Knowledge and Value by Isaac Levi (1987) (1)
The Nature of Man — Games That Genes Play? (2005) (1)
Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Expectations Orderings, and Conceptual Spaces (2021) (1)
Frameworks for Properties: Possible Worlds vs. Conceptual Spaces (2007) (1)
Review of Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (2006) (1)
“Reasons for meanings: A theory of semantics grounded in perception, action and interaction” (2012) (1)
Decision, probability, and utility: Causal decision theory (1988) (1)
Evolution and semantics (2010) (1)
Interdisciplinary Panel on “Catastrophe and Crisis” (2021) (1)
Att kommunicera med och utan teknik (2008) (1)
Anticipation as a Strategy: A Design Paradigm for Robotics (2010) (1)
The Social Stance (1994) (1)
An Epigenetic Approach to Semantic Categories (2020) (1)
The Altruistic Robot: Do What I Want, Not Just What I Say (2017) (1)
Multi-Agent Communication, Planning, and Collaboration (2007) (1)
Inductive reasoning: From Carnap to cognitive science (2003) (1)
Reply to Levi (1982) (1)
Visualizing the meanings of words (2004) (1)
Motion iconicity in prosody (2022) (1)
Cognitively Oriented Theories of Meaning (2017) (1)
Theory Change and Dimensional Change (2012) (0)
Pointing as Meeting of Minds (2014) (0)
1 SYMBOLIC , CONCEPTUAL AND SUBCONCEPTUAL REPRESENTATIONS (2002) (0)
The dawn of language (2006) (0)
Verbs for actions and verbs for consequences show distinct neural patterns in the brain (2012) (0)
Value Uncertainty Affects Loss Aversion and the Endowment Effect (2021) (0)
Using conceptual spaces to explain how word meanings are learned (2018) (0)
Using conceptual spaces to exhibit conceptual continuity through scientific theory change (2016) (0)
Decision, probability, and utility: Unreliable probabilities (1988) (0)
Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language (2022) (0)
Computational Complexity and Cognitive Science: How the Body and the World Help the Mind be Efficient (2014) (0)
Where does the elephant come from? The evolution of causal cognition is the key (2020) (0)
Properties and the Semantics of Adjectives (2014) (0)
Kommunikation med och utan teknik. (2008) (0)
Action Classification and Simulation with Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps (2016) (0)
Communication, cognition, and technology (2008) (0)
680 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Fiona Cowie Max Cresswell Mark Crimmins (1999) (0)
Analogy as a search procedure: a dimensional view (2022) (0)
Cumulative culture: an integrated perspective, Comment on Stout et al. “Archaeology and the origins of human cumulative culture: a case study from the earliest Oldowan at Gona, Ethiopia" (2019) (0)
Semantics, conceptual spaces, and the meeting of minds (2011) (0)
Rationality , and Conceptual Changes in Scientific Theories * (2014) (0)
On-line/Off-line – Between Text and Experience. Writting as a Lifestyle (2015) (0)
Modeling Diachronic Changes in Structuralism and in Conceptual Spaces (2013) (0)
Is There Anything We should not Want to Know (1989) (0)
Conditionals and belief revision (1991) (0)
Summary of presentation at the 5th Peder Saether Symposium on Higher Education in the digital age (2000) (0)
Review in Swedish of D. Lodge: Thinks ..., Secker & Warburg, 1999 (2001) (0)
Review in Swedish of Tomasello: Origins of Human Communication (2009) (0)
The world within (2006) (0)
The crossroads of cognitive science (2015) (0)
From Simon's scissors for rationality to ABC's adaptive toolbox (2000) (0)
Appendix: Existence of Fixpoints (2014) (0)
Review in Swedish of P. Bloom, How Children Learn the Meaning of Words, MIT Press 2000 (2002) (0)
Semantics as Meetings of Minds (2014) (0)
Conceptualization of probability and utility (1988) (0)
Decision, probability, and utility: References (1988) (0)
Concept Learning and Nonmonotonic Reasoning 1 1This chapter is an expanded and revised version of Gärdenfors (2001). (2005) (0)
Review in Swedish of Staffan Ulfstrand: Darwins idé (2009) (0)
Locative and Directional Prepositions in Conceptual Spaces: The Role of Polar Convexity (2015) (0)
Object Categories and the Semantics of Nouns (2014) (0)
Continuity of Theory Structure: A Conceptual Spaces Approach (2016) (0)
The Development of Semantic Domains (2014) (0)
Reply to comments (2012) (0)
The Semantics of Verbs (2014) (0)
The negative Ramsey test (1991) (0)
Review: Hector-Neri Castaneda, Thinking and Doing. The Philosophical Foundations of Institutions (1985) (0)
Reading other people's minds (2006) (0)
Adjectival conceptual space generation with semantic gradation (2018) (0)
Teaching unleashes expression (2023) (0)
Sensation, perception, and imagination (2006) (0)
The Geometry of Prepositional Meaning (2014) (0)
Thinking from an evolutionary perspective (2006) (0)
Anticipation requires adaptation (2008) (0)
Scientist arrested (1985) (0)
Animal gestural communication is not just a code system (2015) (0)
Reasoning with Expectations About Causal Relations (2022) (0)
Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning (2020) (0)
Case-Based Similarity for Social Robots (2019) (0)
The Role of Higher Order Similarity in Induction and Concept Formation (2002) (0)
Theory change as dimensional change: conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories (2012) (0)
Representing part–whole relations in conceptual spaces (2013) (0)
A Cognitive Analysis of Word Classes (2014) (0)
Semantic Transformations (2015) (0)
Levels of communication and lexical semantics (2014) (0)
From Sensations to Concepts: a Proposal for Two Learning Processes (2018) (0)
The tripod effect: Evolutionary perspectives on cooperation, cognition and communication (2012) (0)
On the co-evolution of anticipation, cooperation and communication (2006) (0)
What are the benefits of broad horizons (2010) (0)
”Human-robot collaboration: Interpreting robot pointing behavior” (2012) (0)
Communication with and without technology (2008) (0)
The origin of speech (2006) (0)
Do we speak of the same witch? How minds can meet on intentional identity. (2014) (0)
“Bodily forces, actions and the semantics of verbs” (2012) (0)
Simile Demonstratives in Croatian (2021) (0)
The role of cooperation in the evolution of cognition and communication (2007) (0)
Structural continuity, scientific laws and conceptual spaces : A neo-Kantian perspective on the structure of theories and theory changes (2017) (0)
Comments: The role of attention in lexical semantics (2014) (0)
Questionable rules of rationality (1988) (0)
The Evolution of Semantics: A Meeting of Minds (2010) (0)
SIMILE DEMONSTRATIVES IN CROATIAN: QUANTITY, QUALITY AND BEYOND (2021) (0)
Externalizing the inner world (2006) (0)
Spatial Cognition 2008 (2008) (0)
Induction and knowledge-what (2017) (0)

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