Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications (1st ed. 2019) (Synthese Library #405)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2019

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030128005

Related ISBNs:

9783030127992

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

09/02/21

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Health, Mind and Body, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy

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Edited by:

Peter Gärdenfors

Edited by:

Antti Hautamäki

Edited by:

Frank Zenker

Edited by:

Mauri Kaipainen