Overview
- Offers the first overview of applications of the conceptual spaces theory
- Comprises contributions from various academic fields
- Contains a concise introduction to the conceptual spaces theory, making the book’s content accessible to novices?
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 359)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Computing Meanings
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Conceptual Spaces Theory
- Conceptual Spaces and Predicates
- Conceptual spaces as philosophers’ tools
- Ontology of Conceptual Space Structures
- artificial intelligence
- classical mechanics
- conceptual space
- geometric knowledge representation
- quantum mechanics
- radical theory change
- special relativity theory
- structural realism
About this book
This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory, beginning with an introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the chapters. The first section explores issues of linguistic semantics, including speakers’ negotiation of meaning. Further sections address computational and ontological aspects of constructing conceptual spaces, while the final section looks at philosophical applications. Domains include artificial intelligence and robotics, epistemology and philosophy of science, lexical semantics and pragmatics, agent-based simulation, perspectivism, framing, contrast, sensory modalities, and music, among others.
This collection provides evidence of the wide application range of this theory of knowledge representation. The papers in this volume derive from international experts across different fields including philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, robotics, computer science and geography. Each contributor has successfully applied conceptual spaces theory as a modeling tool in their respective areas of expertise. Graduates as well as researchers in the areas of epistemology, linguistics, geometric knowledge representation, and the mathematical modeling of cognitive processes should find this book of particular interest.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Peter Gärdenfors is a 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.
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applications of Conceptual Spaces
Book Subtitle: The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation
Editors: Frank Zenker, Peter Gärdenfors
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15021-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15020-8Published: 28 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35315-9Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15021-5Published: 16 April 2015
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epistemology, Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks