Peter Gärdenfors#
| Membership Number: | 1893 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ht.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=21232&p=PeterGardenfors http://project.sol.lu.se/ccl |
http://project.sol.lu.se/ccl
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1988 Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University
- 1980 - 1988 Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Lund University
- 1974 Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy, Lund University
- 1970 B.Sc. at Lund University (mathematics, philosophy, computer science)
Fields of Scholarship
- Philosophy of science
- Decision theory
- Belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning
- Concept formation using conceptual spaces based on geometrical and topological models
- Cognitive semantics
- Models of knowledge and information
- Evolution of cognition
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
- 1999 Member of Academia Europaea
- Presented with the electronic Festschrift "Spinning Ideas" on his 50th birthday
- 2004 Member of Leopoldina Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher
- 2009 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science
- 1996 The Rausing prize in humanities
- 1997 Senior Individual Grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
- 2008 The prize for interdisciplinary research by Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis
