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The Dynamics of Thought

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Peter Gärdenfors

    1. Lund University, Sweden

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  • Presents a unique perspective connecting philosophy and cognitive science
  • Presents the broad philosophical work of Peter Gärdenfors
  • Shows other sides of the creator of belief revision theory
  • Shows the philosophical development of Peter Gärdenfors

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 300)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Probabilistic Reasoning and Evidentiary Value

    Pages 1-10

  3. Unreliable Probabilities, Risk Taking, and Decision Making

    Pages 11-29

  4. Rights, Games and Social Choice

    Pages 31-45

  5. The Dynamics of Belief Systems: Foundations vs. Coherence Theories

    Pages 47-65

  6. The Role of Expectations in Reasoning

    Pages 67-81

  7. How Logic Emerges from the Dynamics of Information

    Pages 83-108

  8. Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI

    Pages 109-124

  9. Three Levels of Inductive Inference

    Pages 125-144

  10. Frameworks for Properties: Possible Worlds vs. Conceptual Spaces

    Pages 145-160

  11. The Pragmatic Role of Modality in Natural Language

    Pages 161-172

  12. The Social Stance

    Pages 173-178

  13. The Emergence of Meaning

    Pages 179-199

  14. Does Semantices Need Reality?

    Pages 201-213

  15. The Nature of Man — Games That Genes Play?

    Pages 215-226

  16. The Detachment of Thought

    Pages 227-242

  17. Cognitive Science: From Computers to Anthills as Models of Human Thought

    Pages 243-260

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 261-298
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About this book

This book is a selection from the articles that I have written over a period of more than twenty years. Since the focus of my research interests has shifted several times during this period, it would be difficult to identify a common theme for all the papers in the volume. Following the Swedish tradition, I therefore present this as a smörgåsbord of philosophical and cognitive issues that I have worked on. To create some order, I have organized the sixteen papers into five general sections: (1) Decision theory; (2) belief revision and nonmonotonic logic; (3) induction; (4) semantics and pragmatics; and (5) cognition and evolution. Having said this, I still think that there is a common theme to my work over the years: The dynamics of thought. My academic interests have all the time dealt with aspects of how different kinds of knowledge should be represented, and, in particular, how changes in knowledge will affect thinking. Hence the title of the book.

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  • Lund University, Sweden

    Peter Gärdenfors

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