The Dynamics of Thought

• Main Author: Gärdenfors, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 300
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Logic.; Philosophy and science.; Artificial intelligence.; Behavioral sciences.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Behavioral Sciences.

This volume is a collection of some of the most important philosophical papers by Peter Gärdenfors. Spanning a period of more than 20 years of his research, they cover a wide ground of topics, from early works on decision theory, belief revision and nonmonotonic logic to more recent work on conceptu...

Table of Contents:

• Probabilistic Reasoning and Evidentiary Value
• Unreliable Probabilities, Risk Taking, and Decision Making
• Rights, Games and Social Choice
• The Dynamics of Belief Systems: Foundations vs. Coherence Theories
• The Role of Expectations in Reasoning
• How Logic Emerges from the Dynamics of Information
• Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI
• Three Levels of Inductive Inference
• Frameworks for Properties: Possible Worlds vs. Conceptual Spaces
• The Pragmatic Role of Modality in Natural Language
• The Social Stance
• The Emergence of Meaning
• Does Semantices Need Reality?
• The Nature of Man — Games That Genes Play?
• The Detachment of Thought
• Cognitive Science: From Computers to Anthills as Models of Human Thought.