Peter Gärdenfors, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Gärdenfors

Swedish cognitive scientist

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1949

Place of Birth: Sweden

Profession: economist, university teacher, cognitive scientist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Björn Peter Gärdenfors (born 21 September 1949) is professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden.
Gärdenfors is a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize (Swedish: Rausingpriset).
He received his doctorate from Lund University in 1974.
Internationally, he is one of Sweden's most notable philosophers.
In 1996, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and in 2009 he became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences..
He is member of Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher and of Academia Europaea.
In 2014 Gärdenfors was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.
He was a member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011-2017. Peter Gärdenfors' research covers several areas: Belief revision, decision theory, philosophy of science, concept formation, conceptual spaces, cognitive semantics, and the evolution of cognition and language. His son Simon Gärdenfors is a famous cartoonist and rapper.