Peter Gärdenfors
Lund University
Visit(s): 
October 2017
2019
Peter Gärdenfors has written groundbreaking work in such diverse areas as artificial intelligence, biology, cognitive science, economics, epistemology (and philosophy of science), and linguistics. Especially noteworthy are his contributions to AGM-belief revision (the ‘G’ in ‘AGM’ stands for ‘Gärdenfors’), decision theory, concept formation, semantics, evolution of cognition. He is certainly one of the the most important cognitive scientist working on concept formation and conceptual thought. His books The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces and Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought are milestones in cognitive science and philosophy and they are central to the entire project. Peter Gärdenfors will visit the group as a Mercator Fellow and visiting professor every year. (Here one can find more information about him.)