
Björn Peter Gärdenfors (born 21 September 1949) is professor of
cognitive science
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at the
Lund University
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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
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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. He is member of Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher and of
Academia Europaea
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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
cartoonist
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, comedian and
rapper
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.
Writings
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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)
See also
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Conceptual space
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Philosophy and Humanities
*Concept
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Concepts play an important role in all aspects of cognition. As such ...
References
External links
Vitterhetsakademien
Lecture videos
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
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