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  1. Human Origins and Language Origins 1: A polycentric scenario for biocultural niche expansion

    Article • May 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  2. Inductive biases and the geometry of concept learning

    Article • April 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Matias Osta-Vélez

  3. Neuropsychology of social learning

    Article • Discover Psychology, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  4. Metonymisation: Three Levels of Refocusing

    Article • Cognitive Semantics, June 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  5. Correlates of vocal tract evolution in late Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins

    Article • January 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  6. Correlates of vocal tract evolution in late Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins

    Article • January 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  7. The Geometry and Dynamics of Meaning

    Article • Topics in Cognitive Science, November 2024, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  8. Agency at a distance: learning causal connections

    Article • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  9. Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication

    Article • Philosophia, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  10. Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances

    Article • Language and Cognition, April 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  11. Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  12. Event Segmentation in the Audio Description of Films

    Article • Journal of Audiovisual Translation, December 2023, European Association for Studies in Screen Translation

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  13. Teaching unleashes expression

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  14. Reasoning with Expectations About Causal Relations

    Article • December 2022, De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  15. Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication

    Article • Language & Communication, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  16. Causal Reasoning and Event Cognition as Evolutionary Determinants of Language Structure

    Article • Entropy, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  17. Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology

    Article • Biological Theory, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  18. Simile Demonstratives in Croatian

    Article • Fluminensia, January 2021, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  19. Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  20. An Epigenetic Approach to Semantic Categories

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  21. Category-based induction in conceptual spaces

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Psychology, June 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Matias Osta-Vélez

  22. Where does the elephant come from? The evolution of causal cognition is the key

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  23. Using Event Representations to Generate Robot Semantics

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  24. Synesthetic Associations Between Voice and Gestures in Preverbal Infants: Weak Effects and Methodological Concerns

    Article • December 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  25. Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking

    Article • Science, November 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  26. From Sensations to Concepts: a Proposal for Two Learning Processes

    Article • Review of Philosophy and Psychology, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  27. Induction and knowledge-what

    Article • December 2017, Center for Open Science

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  28. Construals of meaning

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, September 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Peter Ford Dominey

  29. Time, space and events in language and cognition

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Professor Chris Sinha

  30. Directing human attention with pointing

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Alan Huang

  31. Levels of communication and lexical semantics

    Article • Synthese, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  32. Classical Conditioning in Social Robots

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  33. Computational Complexity and Cognitive Science: How the Body and the World Help the Mind be Efficient

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  34. David Makinson and the Extension of Classical Logic

    Article • December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  35. Modeling Diachronic Changes in Structuralism and in Conceptual Spaces

    Article • Erkenntnis, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  36. Representing part–whole relations in conceptual spaces

    Article • Cognitive Processing, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  37. The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual domains

    Article • July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  38. The Development of Semantic Space for Pointing and Verbal Communication

    Article • April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  39. Interpreting Robot Pointing Behavior

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  40. Foresight, function representation, and social intelligence in the great apes

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  41. Using Conceptual Spaces to Model Actions and Events

    Article • Journal of Semantics, April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  42. Replies to comments

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  43. Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  44. Theory change as dimensional change: conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories

    Article • Synthese, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  45. The Cognitive and Communicative Demands of Cooperation

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  46. A Framework for Representing Action Meaning in Artificial Systems via Force Dimensions

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  47. The Tripod Effect: Co-evolution of Cooperation, Cognition and Communication

    Article • November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  48. Semantics, conceptual spaces, and the meeting of minds

    Article • Synthese, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  49. Notes on the History of Ideas Behind AGM

    Article • Journal of Philosophical Logic, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  50. Choice blindness and the non-unitary nature of the human mind

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  51. Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  52. THE EVOLUTION OF SEMANTICS: A MEETING OF MINDS

    Article • March 2010, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  53. Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  54. Anticipation as a Strategy: A Design Paradigm for Robotics

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  55. A grounding framework

    Article • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  56. The Social Stance And Its Relation To Intersubjectivity

    Article • January 2009, Brill

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  57. Anticipation requires adaptation

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  58. The Role of Intersubjectivity in Animal and Human Cooperation

    Article • Biological Theory, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  59. Review

    Article • Theoria, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  60. Review

    Article • Theoria, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  61. Fairness without interpersonal comparisons

    Article • Theoria, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  62. Spatial Cognition VI. Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space

    Article • January 2008

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  63. Understanding Cultural Patterns

    Article • October 2007, University of California Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  64. What are the evolutionary causes of mental time travel?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  65. Mind-reading as Control Theory

    Article • European Review, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  66. Evolutionary and Developmental Aspects of Intersubjectivity

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  67. Editorial: Cognitive Semantics and Spatio-Temporal Ontologies

    Article • Spatial Cognition and Computation, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  68. Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  69. 6. Multi-agent communication, planning, and collaboration based on perceptions, conceptions, and simulations

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  70. A REPRESENTATION THEOREM FOR VOTING WITH LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

    Article • Economics and Philosophy, July 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  71. Why don't chimps talk and humans sing like canaries?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  72. How Homo Became Sapiens

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  73. Thinking from an evolutionary perspective

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  74. Sensation, perception, and imagination

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  75. The world within

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  76. Reading other people's minds

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  77. The dawn of language

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  78. The origin of speech

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  79. Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  80. Triadic bodily mimesis is the difference

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  81. The Dynamics of Thought

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  82. CONCEPT LEARNING AND NONMONOTONIC REASONING11This chapter is an expanded and revised version of Gärdenfors (2001)

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  83. Emulators as sources of hidden cognitive variables

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  84. Co-operation and Communication in Apes and Humans

    Article • Mind & Language, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  85. In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  86. Concept modeling, essential properties, and similarity spaces

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  87. Concept Learning: A Geometrical Model

    Article • Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), June 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  88. VIII -Concept Learning: A Geometrical Model

    Article • Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), April 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  89. Smart people who make simple heuristics work

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  90. Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and Cognition

    Article • Language, September 2000, JSTOR

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Professor Jens Allwood

  91. Cognitive Semantics

    Article • March 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Professor Jens Allwood

  92. Does Semantics Need Reality?

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  93. The role of memory in planning and pretense

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, March 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  94. Symbolic, Conceptual and Subconceptual Representations

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  95. Conceptual Spaces as a Basis for Cognitive Semantics

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  96. Cued and detached representations in animal cognition

    Article • Behavioural Processes, December 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  97. Linguistic Modality as Expressions of Social Power

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, December 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  98. SPEAKING ABOUT THE INNER ENVIRONMENT

    Article • November 1995, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  99. Conceptual spaces

    Article • Kognitionswissenschaft, January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  100. Three levels of inductive inference

    Article • January 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  101. Nonmonotonic inference based on expectations

    Article • Artificial Intelligence, February 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  102. The role of expectations in reasoning

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  103. On the Logic of Relevance

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  104. The dynamics of belief systems: Foundations versus coherence theories

    Article • August 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  105. Belief Revision

    Article • May 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  106. Belief revision: A vade-mecum

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  107. Belief revision and nonmonotonic logic: Two sides of the same coin?

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  108. Nonmonotonic inference, expectations, and neural networks

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  109. An epistemic analysis of explanations and causal beliefs

    Article • Topoi, September 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  110. Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI

    Article • Philosophy of Science, March 1990, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  111. Decision, probability and utility, selected readings

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  112. The impossibility of a paretian loyalist

    Article • Theory and Decision, November 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  113. Is There Anything We should not Want to Know?

    Article • January 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  114. Preface

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  115. Introduction: Bayesian decision theory – foundations and problems

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  116. Unreliable probabilities, risk taking, and decision making

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  117. Decision, Probability and Utility

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  118. Unreliable probabilities

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  119. References

    Article • March 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  120. Causation and the Dynamics of Belief

    Article • January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  121. Generalized Quantifiers

    Article • January 1987

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  122. The dynamics of belief: Contractions and revisions of probability functions

    Article • Topoi, March 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  123. Belief Revisions and the Ramsey Test for Conditionals

    Article • The Philosophical Review, January 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  124. Scientist arrested

    Article • Nature, July 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  125. Propositional logic based on the dynamics of belief

    Article • Journal of Symbolic Logic, June 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  126. On the logic of theory change: Partial meet contraction and revision functions

    Article • Journal of Symbolic Logic, June 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  127. Hector-Neri Castañeda. Thinking and doing. The philosophical foundations of institutions. Philosophical studies series in philosophy, vol. 7. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht and Boston 1975, XVIII + 366 pp.

    Article • Journal of Symbolic Logic, March 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  128. Epistemic Importance and the Logic of Theory Change

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  129. Epistemic importance and minimal changes of belief

    Article • Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 1984, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  130. The Dynamics of Belief as a Basis for Logic

    Article • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, January 1984, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  131. Decision making with unreliable probabilities

    Article • British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, November 1983, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  132. On the information about individual utilities used in social choice

    Article • Mathematical Social Sciences, July 1983, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  133. Imaging and Conditionalization

    Article • The Journal of Philosophy, December 1982, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  134. Dynamic models as tools for forecasting and planning: A presentation and some methodological aspects

    Article • Theory and Decision, September 1982, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  135. Rights, Games and Social Choice

    Article • Noûs, September 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  136. A Pragmatic Approach to Explanations

    Article • Philosophy of Science, September 1980, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  137. Forecasting nonstationary time series—Some methodological aspects

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, September 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  138. On the information provided by forecasting models

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, April 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  139. A concise proof of theorem on manipulation of social choice functions

    Article • Public Choice, December 1977, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  140. Manipulation of social choice functions

    Article • Journal of Economic Theory, October 1976, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  141. Relevance and Redundancy in Deductive Explanations

    Article • Philosophy of Science, September 1976, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  142. Some basic theorems of qualitative probability

    Article • Studia Logica, September 1975, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  143. Match making: Assignments based on bilateral preferences

    Article • Behavioral Science, May 1975, Wiley

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  144. Filtrations and the Finite Frame Property in Boolean Semantics

    Article • January 1975, Elsevier

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  145. Positionalist voting functions

    Article • Theory and Decision, September 1973, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  146. On the extensions of $S5$.

    Article • Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, February 1973, Duke University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  147. Belief revision: An introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  148. Reasoning in Conceptual Spaces

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  149. The negative Ramsey test: Another triviality result

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  150. Relations between the logic of theory change and nonmonotonic logic

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  151. 8. The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language

    Article • University of Pennsylvania Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  152. BODILY FORCES, ACTIONS AND THE SEMANTICS OF VERBS

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  153. Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors