Lecturer: Peter Gärdenfors is Senior Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University, Sweden. His previous research focused on belief revision. His main topics now are model of concepts, cognitive semantics and the evolutions of cognition. For more information, see https://www.fil.lu.se/person/PeterGardenfors
- Lecture 1 (8 October): How to socialize with robots
It is not sufficient that robots that interact with human can perform a variety of actions, but they must also be able to understand what is on the minds of humans. I focus on how a robot could understand the emotions, the attention and the intentions of humans. I also discuss how this could possibly be implemented in robotic systems.
- Lecture 2 (10 October): Conceptual spaces as a tool for knowledge representation
Artificial intelligence and cognitive science have been dominated by two approaches to knowledge representation: symbolic and connectionist. In addition, I propose conceptual spaces that uses geometrical notions such as dimensions, vectors and convexity to represent various forms of knowledge. I outline how conceptual spaces can form the basis for a computational semantics.
- Lecture 3: Reasoning with concepts
Within computer science and philosophy, reasoning has mainly been studied in logical systems. I show how conceptual spaces can be used to model many forms of reasoning that are not covered by the logical approach, but which have been investigated within cognitive psychology. In particular, I discuss expectations, category-based induction, analogies and generic statements.
19:00-21:00@Room 413, Mengminwei Humanities Building