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Peter Gärdenfors

|  1970–1989  |  1990–1999  |  2000–2009  |  2010–2019  |  2020–present  |

Bibliography: 2020 – present

(updated: 26-01-22)

  • 2026b Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta Vélez Reasoning with Concepts: Conceptual Spaces as a Framework, book manuscript, to be published by MIT Press.

  • 2026a Valentina Fantasia and Peter Gärdenfors “On mice and men and robots: Reflections on human interactions with embodied artificial agents”, manuscript.

  • 2025s “Kognitionsvetenskap som tvärvetenskaplig filosofi” (Cognitive science as interdisciplinary philosophy), manuscript.

  • 2025r Shervin Mirzaeighazi and Peter Gärdenfors ”An affordance-based model of human cognition: Connecting causal thinking, simulation, memory, and intention”, submitted.

  • 2025q Ljubica Damjanovic and Peter Gärdenfors ”The activation of metaphorical thought as a function of stimulus saliency”, submitted.

  • 2025p Gåtan. Sonettkrans (The Enigma. Sonnett crown), submitted.

  • 2025o “The role of affordances in technological cognition” (Commentary on Federico et al. “An integrated account for technological cognition”), Cognitive Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2025.2585996.

  • 2025n “Hur tänker människor, djur och AI-systems?” (How do humans, animals and AI-systems think?), manuscript for Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapets book on the Rausing symposium Behövs våra hjärnor? AI – hot och möjligheter.

  • 2025m “Den kognitiva revolutionen: Hur datorer påverkat vår syn på tänkandet” (The cognitive revolution: How computers have affected our view on thinking), submitted.

  • 2025l Casper Kerrén, Stephanie Theves, Mikael Johansson, Peter Gärdenfors, Christian Doeller “Inference over hidden contexts shapes the geometry of conceptual knowledge for flexible behaviour”, submitted.

  • 2025k Carita Paradis and Peter Gärdenfors “Metonymy”, The Cambridge Handbook of Lexical Semantics. Cambridge University Press,to appear.

  • 2025j Michael Arbib, Francesco d’Errico, Peter Gärdenfors, Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Chris Sinha “Human origins and language origins 2: From symbols via pantomime to language and narrative”, submitted.

  • 2025i Francesco d’Errico, Chris Sinha, Michael Arbib, Peter Gärdenfors, Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Rukmini Bhaya Nair “Human origins and language origins 1: A polycentric scenario for biocultural niche expansion”, submitted.

  • 2025h Peter Gärdenfors and Marlize Lombard “Agency at a distance: Learning causal connections”, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences24(3), pp. 789–808. doi 10.1007/s11097-024-09992-9.

  • 2025g Ivo Jacobs, Peter Gärdenfors and Tomas Persson “Model-based animal cognition slips through the sequence bottleneck”, Trends in Cognitive Science, vol. 2734.

  • 2025f Igor Douven, Steven Verheyen, Shira Elqayam, Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta Vélez “Analogical reasoning: A Carnapian approach”, Synthese 205, article 185, online 22 April, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-04991-y.

  • 2025e Peter Gärdenfors and Carita Paradis “Metonymisation: Refocusing within end between event elements”, Cognitive Semantics 11, 1-27.

  • 2025d Erik Mohlin and Peter Gärdenfors “Ambiguity aversion and value uncertainty generate an endowment effect”, Theory and Decision, online 9 July, doi.org/10.1007/s11238-025-10054-y.

  • 2025c Hubert Hågemark and Peter Gärdenfors “Expressives, directives and assertions: Cognitive dimensions of speech acts”, Language and Communication 101, pp. 84-104.

  • 2025b “The geometry and dynamics of meaning”, Topics in Cognitive Science 17: 34–56. doi:10.1111/tops.12767.

  • 2025a Axel Ekström, Peter Gärdenfors, Melina Tsapos, William Snyder, Daniel Friedrichs, Claudio Tennie, Robert C. McCarthy, Jens Edlund, Steven Moran, “Correlates of vocal tract evolution in late Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins”, Human Nature, onlineApril 17, doi.org/10.1007/s12110-025-09487-9.

  • 2024u Shervin Mirzaeighazi and Peter Gärdenfors “Manifest image, scientific image and causal alienation”, submitted.

  • 2024t “Language as information design” to appear in volume on Information Design, ed. by Yvonne Eriksson.

  • 2024s Paula Quinon, Peter Gärdenfors and Antonio Chella “Social robot semantics in autism research based on conceptual spaces”, submitted.

  • 2024r “Nattviol” (Lesser butterfly orchid), lyrics for a composition for soprano, flute, guitar and cello by Johannes Jansson (with German translation as Die Waldhyazinthe), Universal Edition, UES 108519-000 Partitur.

  • 2024q “Semantic domains” article commissioned for International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition, Elsevier.

  • 2024p François Osuirak, Giovanni Federico, Nina Stauffert and Peter Gärdenfors “Neuropsychology of social learning”, submitted.

  • 2024o “Applications of convexity in semantics for natural language”, Journal of Cognitive Science 25(4) doi: 10.17791/jcs.2024.25.4.431.

  • 2024n Anders Högberg, Marlize Lombard, Albin Högberg, Eva Iliefski-Janols, Gustaf Lindblad, Alexander Almér, William Hedley-Thompson, Mattias Rost, Sebastian Andreasson, Alexander Wiig, Peter Gärdenfors “What is tested by reinventing the wheel, and what does it reveal about human socio-technical evolution?”, PLOS One November 11, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310503.

  • 2024m Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta Vélez “Generics as expectations: Typicality and diagnosticity”, Ratio, published online 240924. doi 10.1111/rati.12424.

  • 2024l “Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics”, Language Sciences 102. Article 101610.

  • 2024k Kan AI tänka? –Om människor, djur och robotar (Can AI think? – On humans, animals, and robots), Fri Tanke, Stockholm.

  • 2024j “Natural concepts and the economics of cognition and communication”, Philosophia 52(4), pp. 865-882. Doi 10.1007/s11406-024-00734-4.

  • 2024i Peter Gärdenfors and Marlize Lombard "The evolution of human causal cognition", Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology, Oxford University Press, pp. 277-298.

  • 2024h Martin Peterson and Peter Gärdenfors “How to measure value alignment in AI”, AI and Ethics, 4(4), 1493-1506. Doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00357-7 

  • 2024g “Den optimala gruppen” (The optimal group) Review of Dunbar: Om religionernas uppkomst (How Religion Evolved), Axess, no. 3, p. 70.

  • 2024f “Why AI will not take over the world” English translation of 2024e, PhilArchive 240321.

  • 2024e “Varför AI inte kommer att ta över världen” (Why AI is not taking over the world), SANS 2/24.

  • 2024d Przemyslaw Zywiczynski, Marek Placinski, Slawomir Wacewicz, Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Michał Meina and Peter Gärdenfors “Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: A motion capture investigation of differences in action performances”, Language and Cognition (2024), 1–28, doi:10.1017/langcog.2024.8.

  • 2024c “The relations of demonstration and pantomime to causal reasoning and event cognition”, in Perspectives on Pantomime: Evolution, Development, Interaction, ed. by Przemyslaw Zywiczynski, Johan Blomberg, and Monika Boruta-Zywiczynska, John Benjamin Publishing, pp. 58-77.

  • 2024b Peter Gärdenfors and Anders Högberg “Evolution of intentional teaching”, Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, Oxford University Press, Oxford. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.9

  • 2024a “Why the world is not what it seems”, Psychology Today, March issue.

  • 2023m Mattias Jakobsson, Peter Gärdenfors, Torbjörn Fagerström, Leif Andersson, Anders Götherström, Ulf Pettersson and Dan Larhammar “Om människans evolution” (On human evolution), The  Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm.

  • 2023l Matías Osta Vélez and Peter Gärdenfors “Conceptual coherence”, submitted.

  • 2023k Peter Gärdenfors and Marlize Lombard "Causal cognition and theory of mind in evolutionary cognitive archaeology", Biological Theory 18, 234-252.

  • 2023j Jana Holsanova, Johan Blomberg, Frida Blomberg, Peter Gärdenfors, Roger Johansson “Event segmentation in audio description of films”, The Journal of Audiovisual Translation 6(1), pp. 64–92.

  • 2023i Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta Vélez “The essence of a concept is its principal components”, submitted.

  • 2023h Igor Douven, Steven Verheyen, Shira Elqayam, Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta Vélez “Similarity-based reasoning in conceptual spaces”, Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1234483.

  • 2023g Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta Vélez “Reasoning with concepts: A unifying model”, Minds and Machines, 33, pp. 451-485.

  • 2023f Marlize Lombard and Peter Gärdenfors “Minds on fire: Cognitive and archaeological aspects of hunter-gatherer firemaking”, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, online May 29.

  • 2023e 為什麼人和動物都會笑呢？ (Why do humans and animals laugh?) Vocus, 15/6. 

  • 2023d “Vi är musiken” (We are the music), review of Humphrey: Sentience, Axess. 7:2023, pp. 77-79.

  • 2023c Paula Quinon and Peter Gärdenfors “Invariances and the number concept”, submitted.

  • 2023b “Teaching unleashes expression” (Commentary on Heintz and Scott-Phillips “Expression unleashed”), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, published online 17 February. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22000796

  • 2023a “Skall robotar ses som människor eller djur?” (Should robots be seen as humans or as animals?), SANS 4, pp, 32-37.

  • 2022q“Vad vi vet, vad vi tror vi vet och vad vi inte vet” (What we know, what we believe we know, and what we do not know), Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund, Årsbok2021-2022, pp.141-147.

  • 2022p ”Den fantastiska fantasin” (The fantastic fantasy), review of David Bäckström Fantasi, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, November 21 2022.

  • 2022o "Reasoning with expectations about causal relations", Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 67, 201-217. DOI: 10.2478/slgr-2022-0011.

  • 2022n “Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language”, Frontiers in Communication, December 4, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.970069.

  • 2022m Axel Ekström, Jens Nirme, Peter Gärdenfors “Motion iconicity in prosody”, Frontiers in Communication, doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.994162.

  • 2022l “Undervisningens evolution” (The evolution of teaching), Kungliga Vitterhets- Historie- och Antikvitetsakademiens Årsbok 2022, pp. 135-148.

  • 2022k “Människa, maskin, medvetande: En presentation av kognitionsvetenskap” (Man, machine, mind: A presentation of cognitive science), pp. 114-129 in Människan i centrum, ed. by A. Jarrick, G. Cavalli-Björkman and K. Lidén, Votum, Karlstad.

  • 2022j Matías Osta Vélez and Peter Gärdenfors “Analogy as a search procedure: A dimensional view”, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2022.2125081 

  • 2022i Isak Aho Nyman and Peter Gärdenfors “Towards a resonance theory of metaphor understanding”, submitted.

  • 2022h “Så får orden mening” (That’s how words get their meaning), Språktidningen, 3/22, 53-57.

  • 2022g “Conceptual engineering for engineers (and for philosophers): Conceptual spaces as a tool”, to appear in New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering (Volume 1: Foundational Issues in Conceptual Engineering), ed. by M. G. Isaac, S. Koch and K. Sharp, Springer, Berlin.

  • 2022f “Value uncertainty affects loss aversion and the endowment effect”, SSRN http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3977805.

  • 2022e Peter Gärdenfors, Jürgen Jost and Massimo Warglien “Compositionality and polysemy modelled by presheaves”, submitted.
  • 2022d “Utan omdöme” (Without judgment), Axess 5/22. 
  • 2022c “The human need for a future”, Differens, Spring 2022, 13-20.
  • 2022b Anton Wrisberg, Annika Wallin and Peter Gärdenfors “Changes in endowment effect when buyers and sellers receive new information”, submitted.

  • 2022a Hur orden får mening (How Words Get Their Meaning), Natur och Kultur, Stockholm.

  • 2021m “Uppmärksamhetens kognitiva sidor” (Cognitive aspects of attention), Ikaros 4/21, 4-6.

  • 2021l “Nätbokhandlare säljer plagierade böcker” (Internet bookstores sell plagiarized books), Curie 14/9.

  • 2021k “Does Bildung make you a better person?” Medium 29/7. (Translation of 2021j)

  • 2021j ”Blir man en bättre människa av att vara bildad?” (Does Bildung make you a better person), Sans 4/2021, 68-73.

  • 2021i ”Hur vet vi om en maskin är intelligent?” (How do we know whether a machine is intelligent?), Sydsvenska Dagbladet, July 6.

  • 2021h “Causal reasoning and event cognition as evolutionary determinants of language structure”, Entropy 23(7), 843.

  • 2021g ”Kittlade djur ger oss insikter om människan” (Tickling animals give us insights about humans), Svenska Dagbladet, July 26.

  • 2021f “Att filosofera med science fiction” (Philosophizing with science fiction), Sydsvenska Dagbladet, March 29.

  • 2021e Maja Brala-Vukanovic, Peter Gärdenfors and Mihaela Matesic "Simile demonstratives in Croatian: Quantity, quality and beyond", Fluminensia: Casopis za filološka istraživanja 33(2), 387-416.

  • 2021d “Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication“, Language and Communication 80, 71-79.

  • 2021c Matías Osta Vélez and Peter Gärdenfors "Nonmonotonic reasoning with expectations in conceptual spaces", Journal of Logic, Language and Information, pp.1-21.
  • 2021b Igor Douven, Shira Elqayam, Peter Gärdenfors, Patricia Mirabile "Conceptual spaces and the strength of similar-based arguments", Cognition 218, 104951.
  • 2021a “Crisis from a cognitive perspective”, Zagadnienia Rodzaj w Literackich, LXIV, z. 1, 30-31. DOI: doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2021/64.1/2
  • 2020m Måns Collin, Peter Gärdenfors, Töive Kivikas, Bo Melin, Christer Sandahl och Teresa Söderhjelm” Vad ledare och chefer behöver veta om människan som biologisk varelse” (What leaders need to know about humans as biological beings), manuscript.
  • 2020l “Comparing force prepositions with spatial prepositions”, ЛЮБОСЛОВИЕ (Lyoboslovie) 20, 98-107.
  • 2020k Christian Balkenius, Trond Arild Tjøstheim, Birger Johansson, Annika Wallin and Peter Gärdenfors "The missing link between memory and reinforcement learning", Frontiers in Psychology, December 10, article 560080.
  • 2020j "Primary cognitive categories are determined by their invariances", Frontiers in Psychology, December 8, article 584017.
  • 2020i Peter Gärdenfors and Paula Quinon "Situated counting", Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1-20.
  • 2020h Peter Gärdenfors and Marlize Lombard "Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning”, Biology and Philosophy. DOI 10.1007/s10539-020-09757-z.
  • 2020g "From pantomime to protolanguage", Paradigmi. Rivista di critica filosofica 38, 251-268.
  • 2020f "An epigenetic approach to semantic domains", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 12(2), 139 - 147. DOI 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2833387.
  • 2020e Igor Douven and Peter Gärdenfors: "What are natural concepts? A design perspective", Mind and Language 35, 313–334.
  • 2020d Matías Osta Vélez and Peter Gärdenfors "Category-based induction in conceptual spaces", Journal of Mathematical Psychology 96, DOI 10.1016/j.jmp.2020.102357.
  • 2020c Siri De Geer, Cristina Gunnarsdottir, Peter Gärdenfors and Kristina Hansson "A semantic domain theory of adjectives applied to children\'s acquisition of antonyms", submitted.
  • 2020b Peter Gärdenfors, Anders Högberg and Marlize Lombard "Where does the elephant come from? The evolution of causal cognition is the key" (Commentary on Osiurak and Reynaud "The elephant in the room: What matters cognitively in cumulative technological culture"), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43. DOI 10.1017/S0140525X19003236.
  • 2020a "Events and causal mappings modeled in conceptual spaces", Frontiers in Psychology 11, 630, April 7.
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