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  1. The Geometry and Dynamics of Meaning

    Article • Topics in Cognitive Science, November 2024, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  2. Agency at a distance: learning causal connections

    Article • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  3. Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication

    Article • Philosophia, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  4. Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances

    Article • Language and Cognition, April 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  5. Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  6. Event Segmentation in the Audio Description of Films

    Article • Journal of Audiovisual Translation, December 2023, European Association for Studies in Screen Translation

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  7. Teaching unleashes expression

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  8. Reasoning with Expectations About Causal Relations

    Article • December 2022, De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  9. Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication

    Article • Language & Communication, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  10. Causal Reasoning and Event Cognition as Evolutionary Determinants of Language Structure

    Article • Entropy, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  11. Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology

    Article • Biological Theory, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  12. Simile Demonstratives in Croatian

    Article • Fluminensia, January 2021, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  13. Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  14. An Epigenetic Approach to Semantic Categories

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  15. Category-based induction in conceptual spaces

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Psychology, June 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  16. Where does the elephant come from? The evolution of causal cognition is the key

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  17. Using Event Representations to Generate Robot Semantics

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  18. Synesthetic Associations Between Voice and Gestures in Preverbal Infants: Weak Effects and Methodological Concerns

    Article • December 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  19. Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking

    Article • Science, November 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  20. From Sensations to Concepts: a Proposal for Two Learning Processes

    Article • Review of Philosophy and Psychology, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  21. Construals of meaning

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, September 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Peter Ford Dominey

  22. Time, space and events in language and cognition

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Professor Chris Sinha

  23. Directing human attention with pointing

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Alan Huang

  24. Levels of communication and lexical semantics

    Article • Synthese, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  25. Classical Conditioning in Social Robots

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  26. Computational Complexity and Cognitive Science: How the Body and the World Help the Mind be Efficient

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  27. David Makinson and the Extension of Classical Logic

    Article • December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  28. Modeling Diachronic Changes in Structuralism and in Conceptual Spaces

    Article • Erkenntnis, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  29. Representing part–whole relations in conceptual spaces

    Article • Cognitive Processing, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  30. The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual domains

    Article • July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  31. The Development of Semantic Space for Pointing and Verbal Communication

    Article • April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  32. Interpreting Robot Pointing Behavior

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  33. Foresight, function representation, and social intelligence in the great apes

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  34. Using Conceptual Spaces to Model Actions and Events

    Article • Journal of Semantics, April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  35. Replies to comments

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  36. Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  37. Theory change as dimensional change: conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories

    Article • Synthese, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  38. The Cognitive and Communicative Demands of Cooperation

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  39. A Framework for Representing Action Meaning in Artificial Systems via Force Dimensions

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  40. The Tripod Effect: Co-evolution of Cooperation, Cognition and Communication

    Article • November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  41. Semantics, conceptual spaces, and the meeting of minds

    Article • Synthese, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  42. Notes on the History of Ideas Behind AGM

    Article • Journal of Philosophical Logic, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  43. Choice blindness and the non-unitary nature of the human mind

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  44. Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  45. THE EVOLUTION OF SEMANTICS: A MEETING OF MINDS

    Article • March 2010, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  46. Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  47. Anticipation as a Strategy: A Design Paradigm for Robotics

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  48. A grounding framework

    Article • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  49. The Social Stance And Its Relation To Intersubjectivity

    Article • January 2009, Brill

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  50. Anticipation requires adaptation

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  51. The Role of Intersubjectivity in Animal and Human Cooperation

    Article • Biological Theory, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  52. Review

    Article • Theoria, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  53. Review

    Article • Theoria, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  54. Fairness without interpersonal comparisons

    Article • Theoria, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  55. Spatial Cognition VI. Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space

    Article • January 2008

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  56. Understanding Cultural Patterns

    Article • October 2007, University of California Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  57. What are the evolutionary causes of mental time travel?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  58. Mind-reading as Control Theory

    Article • European Review, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  59. Evolutionary and Developmental Aspects of Intersubjectivity

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  60. Editorial: Cognitive Semantics and Spatio-Temporal Ontologies

    Article • Spatial Cognition and Computation, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  61. Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  62. 6. Multi-agent communication, planning, and collaboration based on perceptions, conceptions, and simulations

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  63. A REPRESENTATION THEOREM FOR VOTING WITH LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

    Article • Economics and Philosophy, July 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  64. Why don't chimps talk and humans sing like canaries?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  65. How Homo Became Sapiens

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  66. Thinking from an evolutionary perspective

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  67. Sensation, perception, and imagination

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  68. The world within

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  69. Reading other people's minds

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  70. The dawn of language

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  71. The origin of speech

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  72. Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  73. Triadic bodily mimesis is the difference

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  74. The Dynamics of Thought

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  75. CONCEPT LEARNING AND NONMONOTONIC REASONING11This chapter is an expanded and revised version of Gärdenfors (2001)

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  76. Emulators as sources of hidden cognitive variables

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  77. Co-operation and Communication in Apes and Humans

    Article • Mind & Language, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  78. In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  79. Concept modeling, essential properties, and similarity spaces

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  80. Concept Learning: A Geometrical Model

    Article • Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), June 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  81. VIII -Concept Learning: A Geometrical Model

    Article • Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), April 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  82. Smart people who make simple heuristics work

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  83. Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and Cognition

    Article • Language, September 2000, JSTOR

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Professor Jens Allwood

  84. Cognitive Semantics

    Article • March 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Professor Jens Allwood

  85. Does Semantics Need Reality?

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  86. The role of memory in planning and pretense

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, March 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  87. Symbolic, Conceptual and Subconceptual Representations

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  88. Conceptual Spaces as a Basis for Cognitive Semantics

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  89. Cued and detached representations in animal cognition

    Article • Behavioural Processes, December 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  90. Linguistic Modality as Expressions of Social Power

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, December 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  91. SPEAKING ABOUT THE INNER ENVIRONMENT

    Article • November 1995, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  92. Conceptual spaces

    Article • Kognitionswissenschaft, January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  93. Three levels of inductive inference

    Article • January 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  94. Nonmonotonic inference based on expectations

    Article • Artificial Intelligence, February 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  95. The role of expectations in reasoning

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  96. On the Logic of Relevance

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  97. The dynamics of belief systems: Foundations versus coherence theories

    Article • August 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  98. Belief Revision

    Article • May 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  99. Belief revision: A vade-mecum

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  100. Belief revision and nonmonotonic logic: Two sides of the same coin?

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  101. Nonmonotonic inference, expectations, and neural networks

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  102. An epistemic analysis of explanations and causal beliefs

    Article • Topoi, September 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  103. Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI

    Article • Philosophy of Science, March 1990, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  104. Decision, probability and utility, selected readings

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  105. The impossibility of a paretian loyalist

    Article • Theory and Decision, November 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  106. Is There Anything We should not Want to Know?

    Article • January 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  107. Preface

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  108. Introduction: Bayesian decision theory – foundations and problems

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  109. Unreliable probabilities, risk taking, and decision making

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  110. Decision, Probability and Utility

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  111. Unreliable probabilities

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  112. References

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  113. Causation and the Dynamics of Belief

    Article • January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  114. Generalized Quantifiers

    Article • January 1987

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  115. The dynamics of belief: Contractions and revisions of probability functions

    Article • Topoi, March 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  116. Belief Revisions and the Ramsey Test for Conditionals

    Article • The Philosophical Review, January 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  117. Scientist arrested

    Article • Nature, July 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  118. Propositional logic based on the dynamics of belief

    Article • Journal of Symbolic Logic, June 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  119. On the logic of theory change: Partial meet contraction and revision functions

    Article • Journal of Symbolic Logic, June 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  120. Hector-Neri Castañeda. Thinking and doing. The philosophical foundations of institutions. Philosophical studies series in philosophy, vol. 7. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht and Boston 1975, XVIII + 366 pp.

    Article • Journal of Symbolic Logic, March 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  121. Epistemic Importance and the Logic of Theory Change

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  122. Epistemic importance and minimal changes of belief

    Article • Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 1984, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  123. The Dynamics of Belief as a Basis for Logic

    Article • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, January 1984, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  124. Decision making with unreliable probabilities

    Article • British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, November 1983, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  125. On the information about individual utilities used in social choice

    Article • Mathematical Social Sciences, July 1983, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  126. Imaging and Conditionalization

    Article • The Journal of Philosophy, December 1982, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  127. Dynamic models as tools for forecasting and planning: A presentation and some methodological aspects

    Article • Theory and Decision, September 1982, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  128. Rights, Games and Social Choice

    Article • Noûs, September 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  129. A Pragmatic Approach to Explanations

    Article • Philosophy of Science, September 1980, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  130. Forecasting nonstationary time series—Some methodological aspects

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, September 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  131. On the information provided by forecasting models

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, April 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  132. A concise proof of theorem on manipulation of social choice functions

    Article • Public Choice, December 1977, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  133. Manipulation of social choice functions

    Article • Journal of Economic Theory, October 1976, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  134. Relevance and Redundancy in Deductive Explanations

    Article • Philosophy of Science, September 1976, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  135. Some basic theorems of qualitative probability

    Article • Studia Logica, September 1975, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  136. Match making: Assignments based on bilateral preferences

    Article • Behavioral Science, May 1975, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  137. Filtrations and the Finite Frame Property in Boolean Semantics

    Article • January 1975, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  138. Positionalist voting functions

    Article • Theory and Decision, September 1973, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  139. On the extensions of $S5$.

    Article • Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, February 1973, Duke University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  140. Belief revision: An introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  141. Reasoning in Conceptual Spaces

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  142. The negative Ramsey test: Another triviality result

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  143. Relations between the logic of theory change and nonmonotonic logic

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  144. 8. The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language

    Article • University of Pennsylvania Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  145. BODILY FORCES, ACTIONS AND THE SEMANTICS OF VERBS

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  146. Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors