Person

Post Retirement Professor, Professor Emeritus
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail peter.gardenforslucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 48 17
Mobile +46 70 914 62 46
Room LUX:B511
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Professor of Cognitive Science
My CV
Bibliography 2000 - 2009
Recent book: Geometry of Meaning. MIT Press 2014
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Interpreting Events: Scene Descriptions for Blind Audiences
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning (research leader)
- VAAG (research leader)
- What you say is what you did (WYSIWYD) (research leader)
Books (12)
- Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Den svåra konsten att se sig själv. Natur och kultur.
- Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Applications of Conceptual Spaces : the Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation. Synthese library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 359. Springer International Publishing.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). De homo a sapiens : Sobre a Evolução do Pensamento. Edipucrs.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Geometry of meaning : semantics based on conceptual spaces. MIT Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Lusten att förstå : om lärande på människans villkor. Natur och kultur.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Comment Homo est devenu sapiens. Éditions Sciences Humanines, Auxerre.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Den meningssökande människan. Natur och kultur.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Tankens vindlar: Om språk, minne och berättande. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). The dynamics of thought. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2003). How Homo became sapiens: On the evolution of thinking. Oxford University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2000). Conceptual spaces : the geometry of thought. A Bradford book. MIT Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2000). Hur Homo blev sapiens : om tänkandets evolution. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
Editorships (9)
- Kaipainen, M., Hautamäki, A., Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (2019). (Eds.) Conceptual Spaces : Elaborations and Applications. Synthese Library : Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 405. Springer.
- Hammarström, M., Gärdenfors, P. & Gerle, E. (2011). (Eds.) Människan sedd – genom olika vetenskapliga prismor. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Freksa, C., Newcombe, N., Gärdenfors, P. & Wölfl, S. (2008). (Eds.) Spatial Cognition VI: Learning, Reasoning and Talking about Space. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5248. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Wallin, A. (2008). (Eds.) A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Johansson, P. (2005). (Eds.) Cognition, Education and Communication Technology.
- Gärdenfors, P., Wolenski, J. & Kijana-Placek, K. (2002). (Eds.) In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Volume Two of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, 1999. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P., Hansson, B. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1997). (Eds.) La teoria del valore probatorio: aspetti filosofici, giuridici e psicologici. Giuffrè.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1988). (Eds.) Decision, Probability, and Utility : Selected Readings. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P., Hansson, B. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1983). (Eds.) Evidentiary value : philosophical, judicial and psychological aspects of a theory : essays dedicated to Sören Halldén on his sixtieth birthday. Library of Theoria, 15. CWK Gleerup.
Articles (95)
- Högberg, A., Lombard, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (submitted). Cumulative culture: an integrated perspective, Comment on Stout et al. “Archaeology and the origins of human cumulative culture: a case study from the earliest Oldowan at Gona, Ethiopia". Current Anthropology, 60. University of Chicago Press.
- Billingsley, R., Peppas, P., Prade, H., Gärdenfors, P. & Williams, M.-A. (submitted). The altruistic robotic : Do what I want, not just what I say. Cognitive Processing. Springer.
- Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (submitted). Structural continuity, scientific laws and conceptual spaces : A neo-Kantian perspective on the structure of theories and theory changes. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Taylor & Francis.
- Holsanova, J., Blomberg, J., Blomberg, F., Gärdenfors, P. & Johansson, R. (accepted/in press). Event segmentation in the audio description of films : a case study. Journal of Audiovisual Translation.
- Gärdenfors, P. (accepted/in press). Using event representations to generate robot semantics. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Gärdenfors, P. (2023). Teaching unleashes expression. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 46, 9-9. Cambridge University Press.
- Douven, I., Elqayam, S., Gärdenfors, P. & Mirabile, P. (2022). Conceptual spaces and the strength of similarity-based arguments. Cognition, 218. Elsevier.
- Ekström, A. G., Nirme, J. & Gärdenfors, P. (2022). Motion iconicity in prosody. Frontiers in Communication. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Gärdenfors, P. (2022). Reasoning with Expectations About Causal Relations. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 67, 201-217. University of Bialystok.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2022). Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language. Frontiers in Communication, 7. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Osta-Vélez, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2022). Analogy as a search procedure : a dimensional view. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. Taylor & Francis.
- Osta-Vélez, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2022). Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Expectations Orderings, and Conceptual Spaces. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 31, 77-97. Springer.
- Brala-Vukanovi, M., Gärdenfors, P. & Matešic, M. (2021). SLICNOST ISKAZANA ZAMJENICAMA I ZAMJENICKIM PRILOZIMA U HRVATSKOME JEZIKU : KVALITATIVNE, KVANTITATIVNE I INE ODREDNICE. Fluminensia, 33, 387-416. University of Rijeka.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2021). Causal reasoning and event cognition as evolutionary determinants of language structure. Entropy, 23. MDPI AG.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2021). Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication. Language and Communication, 80, 71-79. Elsevier.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Quinon, P. (2021). Situated Counting. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 721-744. Springer.
- Lombard, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2021). Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology. Biological Theory. Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
- Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B., Wallin, A. & Gärdenfors, P. (2020). The Missing Link Between Memory and Reinforcement Learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Gärdenfors, P. (2020). Events and Causal Mappings Modeled in Conceptual Spaces. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Gärdenfors, P. (2020). Primary Cognitive Categories Are Determined by Their Invariances. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Gärdenfors, P. & Douven, I. (2020). What are natural concepts? A design perspective. Mind and Language, 35, 313-334. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Lombard, M. (2020). Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning. Biology and Philosophy, 35. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P., Högberg, A. & Lombard, M. (2020). Where does the elephant come from? The evolution of causal cognition is the key. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 43. Cambridge University Press.
- Gardenfors, P. (2020). An Epigenetic Approach to Semantic Categories. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 12, 139-147. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Osta-Vélez, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2020). Category-based induction in conceptual spaces. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 96. Academic Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2019). From Sensations to Concepts : a Proposal for Two Learning Processes. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 10, 441-464. Springer.
- Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B. & Gärdenfors, P. (2018). From focused thought to reveries : A memory system for a conscious robot. Frontiers in robotics and AI, 5. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Bellmund, J. L., Gärdenfors, P., Moser, E. I. & Doeller, C. F. (2018). Navigating cognition : Spatial codes for human thinking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 362. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Pantomime als grundlage für ritual und sprache. Studia Liturgica, 48, 23-40. Societas Liturgica.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Brala-Vukanović, M. (2018). Semantic domains of demonstratives and articles : A view of deictic referentiality explored on the paradigm of Croatian demonstratives. Lingua, 201, 102-118. Elsevier.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Lombard, M. (2018). Causal cognition, force dynamics and early hunting technologies. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Gärdenfors, P. & Stephens, A. (2018). Induction and knowledge-what. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8, 471-491. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Wieschen, T. (2018). Pantomime as a foundation for ritual and language. Studia Liturgica, 48, 41-55. Societas Liturgica.
- Gärdenfors, P., Jost, J. & Warglien, M. (2018). From actions to effects : Three constraints on event mappings. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Gärdenfors, P. & Högberg, A. (2017). The archaeology of teaching and the evolution of homo docens. Current Anthropology, 58, 188-208. University of Chicago Press.
- Gärdenfors, P., Johannesson, M., Molander, P., Sjöström, T. & Strömberg, P. (2017). 2017 års ekonomipris till Richard Thaler. Ekonomisk Debatt, 8/2017, 6-16. Nationalekonomiska föreningen.
- Gharaee, Z., Gärdenfors, P. & Johnsson, M. (2017). First and Second Order Dynamics in a Hierarchical SOM system for Action Recognition. Applied Soft Computing, 59, 574-585. Elsevier.
- Gharaee, Z., Gärdenfors, P. & Johnsson, M. (2017). Online Recognition of Actions Involving Objects. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 22, 10-19. Elsevier.
- Jacobs, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (2017). The false dichotomy of domain-specific versus domain-general cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 34-35. Cambridge University Press.
- Lombard, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 95, 219-234. Istituto Italiano di Antropologia.
- Masterton, G., Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Using conceptual spaces to exhibit conceptual continuity through scientific theory change. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 7, 127-150. Springer.
- Balkenius, C. & Gärdenfors, P. (2016). Spaces in the brain : From neurons to meanings. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Mealier, A. L., Pointeau, G., Gärdenfors, P. & Dominey, P. F. (2016). Construals of meaning : The role of attention in robotic language production. Interaction Studies, 17, 48-76. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (2016). Continuity of Theory Structure : A Conceptual Spaces Approach. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 30, 343-360. Taylor & Francis.
- Zwarts, J. & Gärdenfors, P. (2016). Locative and Directional Prepositions in Conceptual Spaces : The Role of Polar Convexity. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 25, 109-138. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Animal gestural communication is not just a code system : Commentary on T. C. Scott-Phillips “Non-human primate communication, pragmatics and the origin of language”. Current Anthropology, 56, 68-68. University of Chicago Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Varför vill vi förstå?. Filosofisk tidskrift, 1. Thales.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Högberg, A. (2015). Evolutionary mechanisms of teaching. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 41-41. Cambridge University Press.
- Högberg, A. & Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Children, teaching and the evolution of humankind. Childhood in the Past, 8, 113-121. Taylor & Francis.
- Hogberg, A., Gärdenfors, P. & Larsson, L. (2015). Knowing, Learning and Teaching-How Homo Became Docens. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 25, 847-858. Cambridge University Press.
- Bååth, R., Lagerstedt, E. & Gärdenfors, P. (2014). A prototype based resonance model of rhythm categorization. i-Perception, 5, 548-558. Pion Ltd.
- Fiorini, S., Gärdenfors, P. & Abel, M. (2014). Representing part-whole relations in conceptual space. Cognitive Processing, 15, 127-142. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). A semantic theory of word classes. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 14, 179-194. Kruzak D O O.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Comments: The role of attention in lexical semantics. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, XIV, 269-276. Kruzak D O O.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Levels of communication and lexical semantics. Synthese. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). The evolution of sentential structure. Humana.Mente. Humana.Mente.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Zenker, F. (2014). Modeling diachronic changes in structuralism and conceptual spaces. Erkenntnis, 79, 1547-1561. Springer.
- Sinha, C. & Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Time, space, and events in language and cognition : a comparative view. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1326, 72-81. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Löhndorf, S. (2013). What is a domain? Dimensional structures versus meronomic relations. Cognitive Linguistics, 24, 437-456. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Zenker, F. (2013). Theory change as dimensional change: Conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories. Synthese, 190, 1039-1058. Springer.
- Warglien, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2013). Semantics, conceptual spaces and the meeting of minds. Synthese, 190, 2165-2193. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Warglien, M. (2012). Using Conceptual Spaces to Model Actions and Events. Journal of Semantics, 29, 487-519. Oxford University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P., Warglien, M. & Westera, M. (2012). ”Reply to comments”. Theoretical Linguistics, 249-264. De Gruyter.
- Osvath, M., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2012). Foresight, function representation, and social intelligence in great apes (Commentary on K. Vaesen “The cognitive basis of human tool use”). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 234-235. Cambridge University Press.
- Warglien, M., Gärdenfors, P. & Westera, M. (2012). Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs. Theoretical Linguistics, 38, 159-193. De Gruyter.
- Warglien, M., Gärdenfors, P. & Westera, M. (2012). Replies to comments. Theoretical Linguistics, 38, 249-264. De Gruyter.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2011). Notes on the history of ideas behind AGM. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 40, 115-120. Springer.
- Johansson, P., Hall, L. & Gärdenfors, P. (2011). Choice blindness and the non-unitary nature of the mind (Commentary on von Hippel and Trivers). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 28-29. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). The role of indirect reciprocity and theory of mind in interpreting ornaments : commentary on C. S. Henshilwood and B. Dubreuil: “The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, 77-59 ka". Current Anthropology, 51, 383-384. University of Chicago Press.
- Williams, M.-A., McCarthy, J., Gärdenfors, P., Stanton, C. & Karol, A. (2009). A grounding framework. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 19, 272-296. Springer.
- Balkenius, C. & Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Anticipation requires adaptation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 199-199. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). La intuición como conocimiento implícito. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica, XLIII, no. 108, 51-55.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Mindreading and control theory. European Review, 15, 223-240. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P., Kuhn, W. & Raubal, M. (2007). Cognitive semantics and spatio-temporal ontologies. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 7, 3-12. Taylor & Francis.
- Osvath, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2007). What are the evolutionary causes of mental time travel?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 329-329. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). A representation theorem for voting with logical consequences. Economics and Philosophy, 22, 181-190. Cambridge University Press.
- Johansson, S., Zlatev, J. & Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Why don't chimps talk and humans sing like canaries?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 287-288. Cambridge University Press.
- Osvath, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Quand les hommes inventèrent l’avenir. Science Humaines, 58-63.
- Zlatev, J., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Bodily mimesisas “the missing link” in human cognitive evolution. LUCS: Lund University Cognitive Studies, 121. Lund University Cognitive Studies.
- Zlatev, J., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Triadic bodily mimesis is the difference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 720-720. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Conceptual spaces as a framework for knowledge representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 403-403. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Conceptual spaces as a framework for knowledge representation. Mind and Matter, 2, 9-27. Imprint Academic.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Emulators as sources of hidden variables. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 403-403. Cambridge University Press.
- Brinck, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Co-operation and communication in apes and humans. Mind & Language, 18, 484-501. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Kopp, L. (2002). Attention as a minimal criterion of intentionality in robots. Cognitive Science Quarterly, 302-319.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Concept learning: A geometrical model. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 101, 163-183.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Concept modeling, essential properties and similarity spaces. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1105-1106. Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Les espaces conceptuels. Intellectica, 1, 185-205. Association pour la Recherche Cognitive.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Slicing the theory of mind. Danish Yearbook for Philosophy 36, 7-34.
- Wallin, A. & Gärdenfors, P. (2000). Smart people that make simple heuristics work. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 765-765. Cambridge University Press.
- Brinck, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (1999). Representation and Self-Awareness in Intentional Agents. Synthese, 118, 89-104. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1983). Decision making with unreliable probabilities. British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, 36, 240-251. The British Psychological Society.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1982). Reply to Levi. Synthese, 53, 433-438. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1982). Unreliable probabilities, risk taking, and decision making. Synthese, 53, 361-386. Springer.
Book chapters (70)
- Gärdenfors, P. (accepted/in press). Cognitively-oriented theories of meaning. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2019). Convexity is an empirical law in the theory of conceptual spaces : Reply to Hernández-Conde. In Kaipainen, M., Hautamäki, A., Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (Eds.) Synthese Library : Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Conceptual Spaces : Elaborations and Applications, 405. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Att undervisa för förståelse. In Selander, S. & Insulander, E. (Eds.) Att bli lärare. Liber.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Pantomime als Grundlage für Ritual und Sprache. In Stuhlesser, M., Geldhof, J. & Teuer, A. (Eds.) Theologie der Liturgie, "Ein Symbol dessen, was wir sind" : Liturgische Perspektiven zur Frage der Sakramentalität (pp. 50-67). Verlag Friedrich Pustet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Using conceptual spaces to explain how word meanings are learned. In Brozek, B., Kwiatek, L. & Stelmach, J. (Eds.) Explaining the mind. Copernicus Center Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Concept learning and nonmonotonic reasoning. In Cohen, H. & Lefebvre, C. (Eds.) Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science (pp. 977-999). Elsevier.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Semantic Knowledge, Domains of Meaning and Conceptual Spaces. In Meusburger, P., Werlen, B. & Suarsana, L. (Eds.) Knowledge and Space, Knowledge and Action (pp. 203-219), 9. Springer International Publishing.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Holsanova, J. (2015). Communication, cognition, and technology. In Lukowski, P., Gemel, A. & Zukowski, B. (Eds.) Cognition, Meaning, and Action : Lodz-Lund Studies in Cognitive Science (pp. 109-122). Jagiellonian University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Lukowski, P. (2015). The crossroads of cognitive science. Lodz-Lund Studies in Cognitive Science, Cognition, Meaning and Action : Lodz-Lund Studies in Cognitive Science, 7-10. Jagiellonian University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Zenker, F. (2015). Editors’ Introduction : Conceptual Spaces at Work. Synthese library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Applications Of Conceptual Spaces : The Case For Geometric Knowledge Representation, 359, 3-13. Springer International Publishing.
- Warglien, M. & Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Meaning negotiation. In Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (Eds.) Applications Of Conceptual Spaces : The Case For Geometric Knowledge Representation (pp. 79-94). Springer.
- Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Communication, Rationality, and Conceptual Changes in Scientific Theories. In Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (Eds.) Synthese library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Applications of Conceptual Spaces : The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation (pp. 259-277), 359. Springer International Publishing.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Computational complexity and cognitive science : How the body and the world help the mind be efficient. In Baltag, A. & Smets, S. (Eds.) Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information (pp. 825-833). Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Hur skapar man förståelse i undervisning. In Persson, A. & Johansson, R. (Eds.) Vetenskapliga perspektiv på lärande, undervisning och utbildning i olika institutionella sammanhang (pp. 65-78). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Hansson, S. O. & Gärdenfors, P. (2014). David Makinson and the extension of classical logic. In Hansson, S. O. (Ed.) David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems (pp. 11-18). Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Warglien, M. (2013). The development of semantic space for pointing and verbal communication. In Paradis, C., Hudson, J. & Magnusson, U. (Eds.) Conceptual Spaces and the Construal of Spatial Meaning : Empirical Evidence from Human Communication (pp. 29-42). Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2012). “Bodily forces, actions and the semantics of verbs”. In Bredekamp, H., Lauschke, M. & Artega, A. (Eds.) Bodies in Action and Symbolic Forms (pp. 253-271). Akademie Verlag.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2012). “The cognitive and communicative demands of cooperation". In van Eijck, J. & Verbrugge, R. (Eds.) Games, Actions and Social Software (pp. 164-183). Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2012). Ewolucyjne i rozwojowe aspekty intersubiektywnoci. RRR-Kognitywistyka, 3, 17-44. Wydawnictwo UMCS.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2012). Vad skiljer människans sätt att tänka från de andra djurens?. In Allwood, J. & Jensen, M. (Eds.) Kognitionsvetenskap (pp. 311-323). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Zenker, F. (2012). Theory Change and Dimensional Change. In R., C. (Ed.) Emerging Colors in Science—Transdisciplinary Essays. (pp. 145-147). University of Costa Rica Press.
- Gärdenfors, P., Brinck, I. & Osvath, M. (2012). The tripod effect : Evolutionary perspectives on cooperation, cognition and communication. In Stjernfeldt, F., Deacon, T. & Schilhab, T. (Eds.) Biosemiotics, New perspectives on the symbolic species (pp. 193-224), 6. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2011). Förståelsens betydelse för lärandet. In Jensen, M. (Ed.) Lärandets grunder – teorier och perspektiv. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2011). Människans förnuft är överskattat. In Hammarström, M., Gerle, E. & Gärdenfors, P. (Eds.) Människan sedd. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Zenker, F. (2011). Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories. In Erik J., O. & Sebastian, E. (Eds.) Belief Revision meets Philosophy of Science (pp. 137-153), Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science Vol. 21. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Evolution and semantics. In Hogan, P. C. (Ed.) Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp. 748-750). Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Kognition. In Wahlund, L. -O., Nilsson, C. & Wallin, A. (Eds.) Kognitiv medicin. Norstedts Förlag.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). The evolution of semantics: Sharing conceptual domains. In Botha, R., Everaert, M. & Hurford, J. (Eds.) The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference. Oxford University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). The role of understanding in human nature. In Evers, D., Jackelén, A. & Smeds, T. A. (Eds.) How do we know? Understanding in Science and Theology (pp. 3-22). T&T Clark.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). What are the benefits of broad horizons?. In Joas, H. & Klein, B. (Eds.) The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science. Brill.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Osvath, M. (2010). Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication. In Larson, R. (Ed.) Evolution of Language: Biolinguistic Approaches (pp. 103-114). Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2009). Lek ur ett evolutionärt och kognitivt perspektiv. In Jensen, M. & Harvard, Å. (Eds.) Lek för att lära – utveckling, kognition och kultur (pp. 43-54). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2009). The social stance and its relation to intersubjectivity. In Wittrock, B. & Hedström, P. (Eds.) Frontiers of Sociology (pp. 291-305). Brill.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2009). Var finns ordens betydelser?. Annales Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis 37, 9-22.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Det lurade ögat. In Sidén, K. (Eds.) Lura ögat: Fem seklers bländverk (pp. 88-95). Nationalmuseum.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Reasoning in conceptual spaces. In Adler, J. & Rips, L. (Eds.) Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and Its Foundations (pp. 302-320). Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Holsanova, J. (2008). Att kommunicera med och utan teknik. In Domeij, R. (Ed.) Tekniken bakom språket (pp. 25-48), Språkrådets skrifter, 1654-0433 ; 9. Norstedts Förlag.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Holsanova, J. (2008). Communication with and without technology. A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science, 231-247. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Holsanova, J. (2008). Communication, cognition and technology. In Gärdenfors, P. & Wallin, A. (Eds.) A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science (pp. 231-247). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Holsanova, J. (2008). Kommunikation med och utan teknik. In Domeij, R. (Ed.) Tekniken bakom språket (pp. 25-48). Norstedts Förlag.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Lindström, P. (2008). Understanding by experiencing patterns. In Gärdenfors, P. & Wallin, A. (Eds.) A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Lindström, P. (2008). Understanding is experiencing a pattern. In Gärdenfors, P. & Wallin, A. (Eds.) A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science (pp. 149-164). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Williams, M.-A. (2008). Multi-agent communication, planning and collaboration based on perceptions, conceptions and simulations. In Schalley, A. & Khlenthos, D. (Eds.) Mental States, Volume 1: Evolution, Function, Nature (pp. 95-121). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces. In Krois, J. M., Rosengren, M., Stedele, A. & Westerkamp, D. (Eds.) Embodiment in Cognition and Culture (pp. 57-76). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity. In Liljenström, H. & Århem, P. (Eds.) Consciousness Transitions : Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic and Physiological Aspects (pp. 281-305). Elsevier.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces. In Ziemke, T., Zlatev, J. & Frank, R. M. (Eds.) Body, Language and Mind, Volume 1: Embodiment (pp. 167-195). Mouton de Gruyter.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). The cognitive and communicative demands of cooperation. Hommage à Wlodek: Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Understanding cultural patterns. In Suarez-Orosco, M. (Ed.) Learning in the Global Era: Interantional Perspectives on Globalization and Education (pp. 67-84). University of California Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Concept learning and non-monotonic reasoning. In Cohen, H. & Lefebvre, C. (Eds.) Handbook of Categorization (pp. 824-845). Elsevier.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Likhet och sannolikhet i beslutsfattande och begreppsbildning. In Brinck, I., Halldén, S., Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (Eds.) Risk och det levande mänskliga (pp. 103-121). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Människan det förutseende djuret. Arkeologi och naturvetenskap, 198-212. Gyllenstiernska Krapperupsstiftelsen.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Om djurs lekar - och människors. Ting för Lek, Kulturens Årsbok 2005, 21-28.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). The detachment of thought. In Erneling, C. & Johnson, D. (Eds.) Mind as a Scientific Object: Between Brain and Culture (pp. 323-341). Oxford University Press.
- Johansson, P. & Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Introduction to cognition, education, and communication technology. In Peter, G. & Petter, J. (Eds.) Cognition, education, and communication technology (pp. 1-20).
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Conceptual spaces. In Churnside, R. (Ed.) Espacio y tiempo en gestión y análisis social. SIEDIN.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication. In Oller, K. & Griebel, U. (Eds.) The Evolution of Communication Systems (pp. 237-256). MIT Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). How to make the Semantic Web more semantic. Formal Ontology in Information Systems. IOS Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Visualizing the meanings of words. In Holmqvist, K. & Eriksson, Y. (Eds.) Language and visualisation (Lund University cognitive studies ; 119). Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). La révision des croyances et le test de Ramsey pour les conditionnels. In Livet, P. (Ed.) Révision des croyances (pp. 31-43). Hermes Sciences.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). Les sciences cognitives: des ordinateurs et des fourmilières comme modèles de la pensée. Les sciences sociales dans le monde, 362-375. UNESCO Publishing.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Att förstå är att se mönster : IT som hjälpmedel för visualisering,simulering och vägledning. Rapport, IT i skolan - mirakelmedicin eller sockerpiller?, 21-25. IT-kommissionen.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Konsten att luras: Evolutionära aspekter av bedrägeri. Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundets i Lund Årsberättelse, 19-35.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2000). Concept combination: a geometrical model. In Cavedon, L., Blackburn, P., Braisby, N. & Shimojima, A. (Eds.) Logic language and Computation Vol 3 (pp. 129-146). CSLI Publications.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2000). Intuition as implicit knowledge. In Sandström, S. (Eds.) Intuitive Formation of Meaning (pp. 135-140). Kungliga Vitterhets- historie- och antikvitetsakademien.
- Sahlin, N.-E. & Gärdenfors, P. (1997). Decision making with unreliable probabilities. In Hamouda, O. & Rowley, J. C. R. (Eds.) Foundations of Probability, Econometrics and Economic Games Series, 10. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Sahlin, N.-E. & Gärdenfors, P. (1997). Unreliable probabilities, risk-taking, and decision-making. In Hey, D. (Ed.) Foundations of Probability, Econometrics and Economic Games Series, 6. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1993). Varför skall vi minnas våra beslut?. In Andersson, Å. E. & Sahlin, N.-E. (Eds.) Huvudinnehåll : 12 filosofiska uppsatser (pp. 189-205). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1988). Introduction : Bayesian decision theory, foundations and problems. In Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (Eds.) Decision, Probability, and Utility : Selected Readings (pp. 1-16). Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1988). Unreliable probabilities, risk taking and decision making. In Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (Eds.) Decision, Probability, and Utility : Selected Readings (pp. 313-334). Cambridge University Press.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1987). Decision making with unreliable probabilities. In Sage, A. P. (Ed.) System Design and Human Interaction (pp. 102-121). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
Prefaces (2)
- Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (2015). Foreword. Synthese library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Applications Of Conceptual Spaces : The Case For Geometric Knowledge Representation, 359. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). Förord. KK-stiftelsens skriftserie, Lärkraft : om forskning kring datorstött lärande, 17. KK-stiftelsen.
Encyclopaedia entries (2)
- Gärdenfors, P. (2013). Inlevelseförmåga. Nationalencyklopedin. Nationalencyklopedin.
- Balkenius, C. & Gärdenfors, P. (2011). Artificiell intelligens. Nationalencyclopedin. Nationalencyklopedin.
Conference contributions (28)
- Gärdenfors, P. (submitted). The role of cooperation in the evolution of cognition and communication. In Hatfield, G. (Ed.) On The Evolution of Mind and Culture. Pennsylvania State Museum.
- Billingsley, R., Gärdenfors, P., Peppas, P., Prade, H., Skillicorn, D. & Williams, M.-A. (accepted/in press). Adjectival conceptual space generation with semantic gradation. Proceedings R2K 2018.
- Endestad, T., Lindgren, M., von Koss Torkildsen, J. & Gärdenfors, P. (accepted/in press). Verbs for actions and verbs for consequences show distinct neural patterns in the brain.
- Gärdenfors, P., Williams, M.-A., Johnston, B., Billingsley, R., Vitale, J., Peppas, P. & Clark, J. (2019). Event boards as tools for holistic AI. CEUR Workshop Proceedings : 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, 2418, 1-10. University of Technology Sydney.
- Billingsley, R., Billingsley, J., Gärdenfors, P., Peppas, P., Prade, H., Skillicorn, D. & Williams, M. A. (2017). The altruistic robot : Do what i want, not just what i say. In Moral, S., Sanchez, D., Marin, N. & Pivert, O. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Scalable Uncertainty Management - 11th International Conference, SUM 2017. Proceedings (pp. 149-162), 10564 LNAI. Springer.
- Gharaee, Z., Gärdenfors, P. & Johnsson, M. (2017). Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps System for Action Classification. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2017), 583-590. SciTePress.
- Gharaee, Z., Gärdenfors, P. & Johnsson, M. (2016). Action Recognition Online with Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps. 12th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems : SITIS 2016. Proceedings., 538-544. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Hansson, K., Andersson, K., De Geer, S. & Gärdenfors, P. (2016). Antonym knowledge in children with language impairment - testing the semantic domain theory.
- Novianto, R., Williams, M. A., Gärdenfors, P. & Wightwick, G. (2014). Classical conditioning in social robots. In Beetz, M., Beetz, M., Williams, M.-A., Johnston, B. & Williams, M.-A. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Social Robotics : 6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Proceedings (pp. 279-289), 8755. Springer.
- Wang, X., Williams, M. A., Gärdenfors, P., Vitale, J., Abidi, S., Johnston, B., Kuipers, B. & Huang, A. (2014). Directing human attention with pointing. In Sabanovic, S., Loureiro, R., Nagai, Y., Alissandrakis, A., Tapus, A. & Tanaka, F. (Eds.) IEEE RO-MAN 2014 - 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication : Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions (pp. 174-179). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Gärdenfors, P. (2013). The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language. Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture, 5, 193-216. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Gärdenfors, P., Williams, M.-A., Abidi, S., Wang, X., Kuipers, B. & Johnston, B. (2013). Interpreting Robot Pointing Behavior. In Herrmann, G., Pearson, M. J., Lenz, A., Bremner, P., Spiers, A. & Leonards, U. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Social Robotics : 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK, October 27-29, 2013, Proceedings (pp. 148-159), 8239.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2012). “A framework for representing action meaning in artificial systems via force dimensions”. In Bach, J., Goeertzel, B. & Ilke, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (pp. 99-99). Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2012). “Reasons for meanings: A theory of semantics grounded in perception, action and interaction”. In Nida-Rümelin, J. & Özmen, E. (Eds.) Welt der Gründe (pp. 1327-1344). Felix Meiner Verlag.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Semantics based on conceptual spaces. In Banerjee, M. & Seth, A. (Eds.) Proceedings of 4th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications, 6521. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). The Evolution of Semantics: A Meeting of Minds. Evolution Of Language, Proceedings, 407-410. World Scientific Publishing.
- Williams, M.-A., Gärdenfors, P., Stanton, B. & Wightwick, G. (2010). Anticipation as a strategy: A design paradigm for robotics. In Bi, Y. & Williams, M.-A. (Eds.) Knowledge Science Engineering and Management (pp. 341-353). Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Osvath, M. (2006). On the co-evolution of anticipation, cooperation and communication.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Warglien, M. (2006). Cooperation, conceptual spaces and the evolution of semantics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Symbol Grounding and Beyond, 4211 LNAI, 16-30. Springer.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Osvath, M. (2005). The evolution of anticipatory cognition as a precursor to language.
- Johansson, P. & Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Introduction to cognition, education, and communication technology. In Gärdenfors, P. & Johansson, P. (Eds.) Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology (pp. 1-20). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). How to make the Semantic Web more semantic. In Varzi, A. & Vieu, L. (Eds.) Formal Ontology in Information Systems (pp. 19-36). IOS Press.
- Zlatev, J., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Can Mimesis Provide the Missing Link to Language?.
- Brinck, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Cooperation in apes and humans. In Chakraborti, C., Mandal, M. & Chatterjee, R. (Eds.) On Mind and Consciousness (pp. 365-376). Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Inductive reasoning: From Carnap to cognitive science. In Singh, N. C. (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical Neurobiology (pp. 93-109). National Brain Research Centre, Manesar.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Williams, M.-A. (2003). Building rich and grounded robot world models from sensors and knowledge resources: A conceptual spaces approach. Proceedings of AMIRE 2003, 123-132. Queensland University of Technology.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Williams, M.-A. (2001). Reasoning about categories in conceptual spaces. Proceedings of IJCAI 2001, 385-392. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
- Gärdenfors, P., Balkenius, C. & Hall, L. (2000). The origin of symbols in the brain. Paper presented at the conference on Evolution of Language, March 6-9, 2000, Paris.
Working papers (8)
- Jacot, J. & Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Do we speak of the same witch? How minds can meet on intentional identity.
- Gärdenfors, P. & Hansson, S. O. (2012). ”David Makinson and the extension of classical logic”.
- Gärdenfors, P. (1997). Att tala med maskinerna.
- Gärdenfors, P. (1996). När tanken lyfter.
- Gärdenfors, P. (1995). Cued and Detached Representations in Animal Cognition. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 38.
- Gärdenfors, P. (1995). Human Communication: What Happens?.
- Gärdenfors, P. (1995). Language and the Evolution of Cognition.
- Gärdenfors, P. (1995). Meanings as Conceptual Structures.
Reviews (9)
- Gärdenfors, P. (2009). Review in Swedish of Staffan Ulfstrand: Darwins idé. Axess 2009:2, 63-64.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2009). Review in Swedish of Tomasello: Origins of Human Communication. Axess 2009:3, 65-67.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Review of Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell. Annex, 7.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). En tanke kommer sällan ensam. Dagens Forskning, No. 12, 20-21.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). Review in Swedish of P. Bloom, How Children Learn the Meaning of Words, MIT Press 2000. Dagens Forskning, February 2002.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Kan apor förstå fysik?. Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Minnets metaforer. Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Review in Swedish of D. Lodge: Thinks ..., Secker & Warburg, 1999. Sydsvenska dagbladet. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Varför behöver vi egentligen känslor?. Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (22)
- Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Barn bör lära för att förstå. Modern barndom, 3, 10-10. Reggio Emilia institutet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Hopp om framtiden. Kyrkokalendern, 2018-2019, 77-79. Verbum.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Så gör djur. Axess, 97-99. Axess Publishing AB, Axess Publishing AB.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Du ljuger! (för dig själv). Modern filosofi. Vetenskapsmedia i Sverige AB.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2017). Hur tekniken påverkar vår syn på oss själva. SANS. Fri tankesmedja.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Våra föreställningar om tid är kulturberoende. Forskning & framsteg, 89-89. Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Å forstå er å se mønstre. Lektorbladet, 9, 17-19.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Önskelista till utbildningsministern. Datorn i utbildningen, 10-10. Ordfront förlag.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Bara vi kan undervisa. Forskning & framsteg, 28-33. Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Förståelse ger djup. Pedagogiska Magasinet, 53-57. Lärarförbundet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Hjärnan som dator - ett havererat forskningsprogram. Ord och bild, 138-138.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Varför du skall vidga dina vyer. Ord och bild, 24-24.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Berättelsernas betydelse. Tvärsnitt - om humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning, 08, 6-9. Vetenskapsrådet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Människan vaknar med maskinerna. Ord och bild, 08, 16-19. Ord & Bild.
- Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Varför har vi så stora ögonvitor?. Forskning & framsteg. Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Audiens hos schimpanser och gorillor. Forskning och framsteg, 1, 56-57. Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). We and they. Framework: the finnish art review, 14-15. Finnish Fund for Art Exchange.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Det yttre landskapet som stöd för minne och tänkande. Bild i skolan, 2006, 13-14. Lärarförbundet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Religion ur ett evolutionärt perspektiv. Humanisten: Humanisternas medlemstidning, 27-30.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Vi berättar för livet. Forskning och framsteg, 28-31. Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg, Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Frågan om livets mening - ett skenproblem?. PRO Pensionären, 16-16. Pensionärernas riksorganisation (PRO).
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Vad är det för vits med att vara osjälvisk?. 00-tal, 62-65. Föreningen Pomona / Tidskriften 00TAL.
Newspaper articles (27)
- Gärdenfors, P. (2019). Förnuftig blir bara den som möter motstånd. Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet, Hb Svenska dagbladets AB & Co.
- Berggren, L., Gärdenfors, P., Kaiserfeld, T., Lundblad, K., Schönström, R. & Åkesson, L. (2014). Studiemedel för studiero. Helsingborgs Dagblad. Helsingborgs Dagblad.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2014). Turingtestet är inte ett bra kriterium på intelligens. Sydsvenskan. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Jaget – tunneln mellan världen och medvetandet. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2010). Skolans struktur tar kål på elevernas motivation. Sydsvenskan. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2008). At se sig selv. Information. Dagbladet Information.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2008). Den svåra konsten att få syn på sig själv. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Grottans språk och den andra världen. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2007). Lucifereffekten är en del av evolutionen. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). En tornsvala i tankens laboratorium. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Kan Darwin förklara Gud?. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Leken gör oss till människor. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Kvinnan från Flores. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Längtan leder stegen mot framtiden. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Studiebegåvad motstår luckornas lockelse. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Djurens prat - här och nu. Dagens Forskning No. 5, 22-22.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Inlärningen följer inga tayloristiska checklistor. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Personligheten och den kemiska soppan. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Religionen ger gräddfil i evolutionsracet. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2003). Spam är datorvärldens loppor. Computer Sweden.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). Försiktigt om djuriska tankar. Dagens Forskning No. 18, 27-27.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). Hjärnan är inte en dator. Dagens Forskning, No. 13.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Allt färre behärskar europeiska språk. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Dags att lämna det deskriptiva. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). För många ämnen hämmar humaniora. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Fiktion. Sydsvenska dagbladet. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Mänskliga maskiner. Expressen. AB Kvällstidningen Expressen.
Miscellaneous (9)
- Anikin, A., Rudling, M., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2018). Synesthetic Associations Between Voice and Gestures in Preverbal Infants : Weak Effects and Methodological Concerns. PsyArXiv.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Att skapa gemensamma visioner: Om språkets roll i människans utveckling. Axess Publishing AB.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2004). The learning brain, the learning individual, the learning organisation. Report from a committee for a Swedish research program on learning processes..
- Gärdenfors, P. & Balkenius, C. (2003). Intelligenta lösningar behöver inte vara mänskliga. Axess Publishing AB.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). Avtryck i huvudet.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2002). Den svävande tanken. Tanken Flyger pp. 13-16, Sockholm Arts and Sciences, Stockholm.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Från sågspån till tankespån. Degeberga Byablad.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2001). Kunskap finns inte i lådor.
- Gärdenfors, P. (2000). Summary of presentation at the 5th Peder Saether Symposium on Higher Education in the digital age. Berkeley University, 9-10 March, 2000.
Supervision at Lund University (16)
- Löhndorf, S. (2021). Development of Adjectival Use and Meaning Structures in Swedish Students' Written production. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Gharaee, Z. (2018). Action in Mind : A Neural Network Approach to Action Recognition and Segmentation. Lund University Cognitive Science. Dissertation.
- Harvard Maare, Å. (2015). Designing for Peer Learning : Mathematics, Games and Peer Groups in Leisure-time Centers. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 165. Dissertation.
- Lindström, P. (2011). Understanding as experiencing a pattern. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 150. Dissertation.
- Osvath, M. (2010). Planning Primates - A search for episodic foresight. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 148. Dissertation.
- Larsson, M. (2009). Learning System Thinking : The role of semiotic and cognitive resources. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 145. Dissertation.
- Bredefeldt Öhman, M. (2009). Livet som figur : om självbiografiskt minne och metaforer. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 143. Dissertation.
- Hemeren, P. (2008). Mind in Action: Action Representation and the Perception of Biological Motion. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 140. Dissertation.
- Persson, T. (2008). Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 136. Cognitive Science. Dissertation.
- Johansson, P. (2006). Choice Blindness: The Incongruence of Intention, Action and Introspection. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 130. Department of Cognitive Science. Dissertation.
- Gander, P. (2005). Participating in a Story: Exploring Audience Cognition. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 119. Cognitive Science. Dissertation.
- Holsanova, J. (2001). Picture Viewing and Picture Description: Two Windows on the Mind. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 83. Cognitive Science. Dissertation.
- Holsanova, J. (1999). På tal om bilder. Om fokusering av uppmärksamhet i och strukturering av talad beskrivande diskurs. Licentiate thesis.
- Balkenius, C. (1995). Natural Intelligence in Artificial Creatures. Dissertation.
- Holmqvist, K. (1993). Implementing Cognitive Semantics. LUCS, 17. Lund University Cognitive Science. Dissertation.
- Sahlin, N.-E. (1984). Secondary Levels in Decision Making. Dissertation.
Other tasks and qualifications
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities since 1996. Member of Academia Europaea since 1999. Presented with the electronic Festschrift Spinning Ideas on my 50th birthday. Member of Leopoldina Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher since 2004. Vice chairman of the Natur och Kultur Foundation since 2007. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science since 2009. Member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011-2017. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering since 2018.
Awards
The Rausing prize in humanities in 1996. Senior Individual Grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in 1997. The prize for interdisciplinary research by Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis in 2008. The Hermann Lotze Prize 2012. Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Medal 2012. Awarded the Ann-Kersti and Carl-Hakon Swensons prize for research in the humanities and social sciences 2021.

Post Retirement Professor, Professor Emeritus
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail peter.gardenforslucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 48 17
Mobile +46 70 914 62 46
Room LUX:B511
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30