Björn ''Peter'' Gärdenfors (born 21 September 1949) is professor of cognitive science at the

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: ''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. 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

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.https://www.zukunftskolleg.uni-konstanz.de/people/senior-fellows/ He was a member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011-2017. 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 and

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* * * * * *''Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. .

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What is Life? Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity
Talk at Karolinska Institutet, February 20, 2008.
How to Motivate Students?
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