Overview
- Details advances in theory development at the focal point of cognitive science
- Presents interdisciplinary research unified by a common theoretical core
- Features 15 papers based on the topics from the Conceptual Spaces @ Work 2016 conference
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 405)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts, Perception and Knowledge
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Cognitive Science Conceptual Spaces
- Conceptual Spaces Categorization
- Conceptual Spaces Meronomy
- Conceptual Spaces Relations
- Conceptual Spaces Functions
- Conceptual Spaces Systems
- Conceptual Spaces Metatheories
- Conceptual Spaces Logic
- Conceptual Spaces language
- Conceptual Spaces @work
- Conceptual Spaces ethics
- Conceptual Spaces Education
- Conceptual Spaces Health
- Conceptual Spaces Semantics
- Conceptual Spaces Ontology
- Conceptual spaces Artificial Intelligence
- Conceptual Spaces Embodied Cognition
- Conceptual Spaces Perspectivism
About this book
This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today’s most central tracks of cognitive science discourse. It features 15 papers based on topics presented at the Conceptual Spaces @ Work 2016 conference.
The contributors interweave both theory and applications in their papers. Among the first mentioned are studies on metatheories, logical and systemic implications of the theory, as well as relations between concepts and language. Examples of the latter include explanatory models of paradigm shifts and evolution in science as well as dilemmas and issues of health, ethics, and education.
The theory of conceptual spaces overcomes many translational issues between academic theoretization and practical applications. The paradigm is mainly associated with structural explanations, such as categorization and meronomy. However, the community has also been relating it to relations, functions, and systems. The bookpresents work that provides a geometric model for the representation of human conceptual knowledge that bridges the symbolic and the sub-conceptual levels of representation. The model has already proven to have a broad range of applicability beyond cognitive science and even across a number of disciplines related to concepts and representation.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mauri Kaipainen is professor of Media Technology at Södertörn University with a PhD from the University of Helsinki has longstanding focus and a number of publications on the systems, dynamics, interactions and perspective-dependence of concepts. The application range of his theoretical work ranges from cognitive science to society to media art. He was the main organizer of Conceptual Spaces @ Work 2016.
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) and Zenker, F.; Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Applications of Conceptual Spaces. Springer. Synthese library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 359.
Peter Gärdenfors is a distinguished 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. He is best known of articulating and coining the theory of Conceptual Spaces.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications
Editors: Mauri Kaipainen, Frank Zenker, Antti Hautamäki, Peter Gärdenfors
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12800-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12799-2Published: 04 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12802-9Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12800-5Published: 25 June 2019
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 203
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Logic Design, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Logic, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages