Björn Peter Gärdenfors (born 21 September 1949) is professor of

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at the

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, Sweden. Gärdenfors is a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize ( Swedish: ''Rausingpriset''). 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

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. He is member of Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher and of

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. 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. Gärdenfors was the first to apply a game theoretical approach to rights in his paper "Rights, Games and Social Choice". Peter Gärdenfors' research covers several areas: Belief revision, decision theory, philosophy of science, concept formation, conceptual spaces, cognitive semantics, and the evolution of cognition and language. His son Simon Gärdenfors is a famous

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, comedian and

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* * * * * * ''Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. . * ''Rights, Games and Social Choice'', Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep. 1981), pp. 341–356 (16 pages)

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What is Life? Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity
Talk at Karolinska Institutet, 20 February 2008.
How to Motivate Students?
TEDxNorrkoping 1949 births Living people Academic staff of Lund University Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society Members of Academia Europaea {{sweden-academic-bio-stub

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