Peter Gärdenfors
Björn Peter Gärdenfors (born 21 September 1949) is professor of cognitive science at the Lund University, Sweden.
Gärdenfors is a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize (Swedish: Rausingpriset). He received his doctorate from Lund University in 1974. Internationally, he is one of Sweden's most notable philosophers. In 1996, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and in 2009 he became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1] He is member of Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher and of Academia Europaea. In 2014 Gärdenfors was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.[2] He was a member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011-2017.
Gärdenfors was the first to apply a game theoretical approach to rights in his paper "Rights, Games and Social Choice".[3]
Peter Gärdenfors' research covers several areas: Belief revision, decision theory, philosophy of science, concept formation, conceptual spaces, cognitive semantics, and the evolution of cognition and language.
His son Simon Gärdenfors is a famous cartoonist, comedian and rapper.
Writings
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- Rights, Games and Social Choice, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep. 1981), pp. 341–356 (16 pages)
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Five prominent researchers elected to the Academy Archived 14 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, press announcement 19 December 2009 [verification needed]
- ^ https://www.zukunftskolleg.uni-konstanz.de/people/senior-fellows/ [verification needed]
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External links
[edit | edit source]Lecture videos
[edit | edit source]- What is Life? Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity. Talk at Karolinska Institutet, 20 February 2008.
- How to Motivate Students? TEDxNorrkoping
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