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Gärdenfors_ Special Guest Visitor Professor Peter Gärdenfors is the founder and director of Lund University Cognitive Science department. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at University of Uppsala. Gärdenfors has published more than 200 articles in various journals and books. His books include "Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States" (MIT Press, 1988) and "Conceptual Spaces" (MIT Press, 2000). His newest book "How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking" (Oxford University Press, 2003) provides an evolutionary account on the animal and human cognition. Friday, 16th of January, 2003 // 13.00 - 15.00 Helsinki University of Technology In his book Conceptual Spaces, Gärdenfors offers a theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches. A conceptual space is built up from geometrical structures based on a number of quality dimensions. Gärdenfors shows how conceptual spaces can serve as an explanatory framework in a number of areas, in particular those concerning concept formation, induction, and semantics. His theory is relevant within several disciplines including cognitive science, theoretical philosophy, cognitive linguistics, computational linguistics and computer science. The event is organized by the laboratory of computer and information science, Helsinki University of Technology, seminar on Statistical and Adaptive Approaches to Conceptual Modeling.
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