Peter Gärdenfors

Björn Peter Gärdenfors (born 21 September 1949) is professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, 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. 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. 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".

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 and rapper.

Writings

 * Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262570824.
 * Rights, Games and Social Choice, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 341–356 (16 pages)
 * Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262570824.
 * Rights, Games and Social Choice, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 341–356 (16 pages)
 * Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262570824.
 * Rights, Games and Social Choice, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 341–356 (16 pages)
 * Rights, Games and Social Choice, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 341–356 (16 pages)

Lecture videos

 * What is Life? Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity. Talk at Karolinska Institutet, February 20, 2008.
 * How to Motivate Students? TEDxNorrkoping