Conceptual spaces : elaborations and applications
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Conceptual spaces : elaborations and applications
（Synthese library, v. 405）
Springer, c2019
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Description
This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today's most central tracks of cognitive science discourse. It features 15 papers based on topics presented at the Conceptual Spaces @ Work 2016 conference.
The contributors interweave both theory and applications in their papers. Among the first mentioned are studies on metatheories, logical and systemic implications of the theory, as well as relations between concepts and language. Examples of the latter include explanatory models of paradigm shifts and evolution in science as well as dilemmas and issues of health, ethics, and education.
The theory of conceptual spaces overcomes many translational issues between academic theoretization and practical applications. The paradigm is mainly associated with structural explanations, such as categorization and meronomy. However, the community has also been relating it to relations, functions, and systems.
The book presents work that provides a geometric model for the representation of human conceptual knowledge that bridges the symbolic and the sub-conceptual levels of representation. The model has already proven to have a broad range of applicability beyond cognitive science and even across a number of disciplines related to concepts and representation.
Table of Contents
- 1. Editors' introduction Mauri Kaipainen, Frank Zenker, Antti Hautamaki, Peter Gardenfors Part I. Concepts, perception and knowledge 2. Nina Laura Poth: Conceptual Spaces, Generalisation Probabilities and Perceptual Categorisation 3. Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger: Formalized Conceptual Spaces with a Geometric Representation of Correlations 4. Andreas Stephens: Three levels of Naturalistic Knowledge 5. Peter Gardenfors
- Convexity is a testable prediction in the theory of conceptual spaces: Reply to Hernandez-Conde Part II. Evolving concepts 6. Joel Parthemore: On the Essentially Dynamic Nature of Concepts: Constant if Incremental Motion in Conceptual Spaces 7. Mauri Kaipainen and Antti Hautamaki: Seeking for the Grasp. An Iterative Subdivision Model of Conceptualization Part III. Concepts and disciplines 8. Sylvia Wenmackers: Lost in Space and Time: A Quest for Conceptual Spaces in Physics 9. Josef Bolt, Bob Coecke, Fabrizio Romano Genovese, Martha Lewis, Dan Marsden and Robin Piedeleu: Interacting Conceptual Spaces I: Grammatical Composition of Concepts 10. Aleksander Gemel and Paula Quinon: Magnitude and Number Sensitivity of the Approximate Number System in Conceptual Spaces 11. Jose Hernandez-Conde: Reply to Gardenfors
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