Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications

Details advances in theory development at the focal point of cognitive science Presents interdisciplinary research unified by a common theoretical core Features 15 papers based on the topics from the Conceptual Spaces @ Work 2016 conference

Autorentext

Mauri Kaipainen is professor of Media Technology at Södertörn University with a PhD from the University of Helsinki has longstanding focus and a number of publications on the systems, dynamics, interactions and perspective-dependence of concepts. The application range of his theoretical work ranges from cognitive science to society to media art. He was the main organizer of Conceptual Spaces @ Work 2016.

Frank Zenker is a researcher in philosophy at Lund University, Sweden, funded by the Swedish Research Council. Having obtained his doctorate in philosophy of science at the University of Hamburg, Germany, he has worked with Peter Gärdenfors on applying conceptual spaces to theory-dynamical processes in the empirical sciences. He is the editor of "Bayesian Argumentation" (Synthese Library Vol 362, 2013) and Zenker, F.; Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Applications of Conceptual Spaces. Springer. Synthese library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 359.

Peter Gärdenfors is a distinguished professor of cognitive science at Lund University, Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize. Internationally, he is one of Sweden's most notable philosophers. In 2009, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is best known of articulating and coining the theory of Conceptual Spaces.

Inhalt

1. Editors' introduction.- Part I. Concepts, perception and knowledge.
   2. Conceptual Spaces, Generalisation Probabilities and Perceptual Categorisation.- 3. Formalized Conceptual Spaces with a Geometric Representation of Correlations.- 4. Three levels of Naturalistic Knowledge.- 5. Convexity is a testable prediction in the theory of conceptual spaces: Reply to Hernández-Conde.- Part II. Evolving concepts.
      6. On the Essentially Dynamic Nature of Concepts: Constant if Incremental Motion in Conceptual Spaces.- 7. Seeking for the Grasp. An Iterative Subdivision Model of Conceptualization.- Part III. Concepts and disciplines. 8. Lost in Space and Time: A Quest for Conceptual Spaces in Physics.- 9. Interacting Conceptual Spaces I: Grammatical Composition of Concepts.- 10. Magnitude and Number Sensitivity of the Approximate Number System in Conceptual Spaces. 11. José Hernandez-Conde: Reply to Gärdenfors. <p