Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual Spaces, Cognitive Semantics and Robotics

Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden) gives a talk at the EROSS 2020 series entitled “Conceptual Spaces, Cognitive Semantics and Robotics”.

Peter Gärdenfors is probably the greatest living Swedish philosopher. He made seminal contributions to philosophy of science, decision theory, language evolution, and was already a key figure in the area of belief revision when he created one of the current central notions in cognitive semantics, namely, the notion of Conceptual Spaces. Conceptual Spaces have been applied in Robotics, Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, Conceptual Modeling, among many other areas. He is a professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University, in Sweden, a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize, and an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher, and Academia Europaea. He was a member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011-2017 (aka the Nobel Prize in Economics). He is the editor and authors of many books, including: “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces” – MIT Press, 2014, “Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought” – Bradford Books, 2004, “The Dynamics of Thought” – Synthese Library, 2006, “How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking” – Oxford University Press, 2006.

You can find the slides and references for this talk HERE.

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Enrico Franconi,
Giancarlo Guizzardi,
Tiago Prince Sales,
Claudenir Morais Fonseca,

KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
(Organization Team)