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Peter Gärdenfors

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Sweden

Peter Gärdenfors is part of the 2013 2nd Semester, 2015 1st Semester, 2016 2nd Semester, 2018 2nd Semester, 2019 2nd Semester, and 2021 2nd Semester cohorts at STIAS.

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How we learnt to think like humans - Fellows' seminar by Peter Gärdenfors, Marlize Lombard and Anders Högberg

STIAS fellows Peter Gärdenfors, Marlize Lombard and Anders Högberg after their seminar on 29 November 2018 Our expanding knowledge of the hominin tree, in combination with the archaeological record of sub-Saharan Africa and the reconstruction of ancient human genomes change our understanding of human cognitive evolution.
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Archaeology of a hungry mind - Fellows' seminar by Marlize Lombard, Anders Högberg and Peter Gärdenfors

We suggest that a useful way to explore the evolution of human cognition between about 300 000 and 50 000 years ago is to think of it in terms of a co-evolutionary feedback loop between aspects of biology, technology, society and ecology.
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Minds on Fire - Fellows' seminar by Marlize Lombard, Anders Högberg and Peter Gärdenfors

Cognitive and archaeological aspects of hunter-gatherer fire making The art of making fire was described by Darwin as one of the greatest achievements of humankind.
 The Evolution of Sentenial Structure

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The Evolution of Sentenial Structure

Peter Gärdenfors. 2014. The Evolution of Sentenial Structure. Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27, 79-97
 Knowing, Learning and Teaching—How Homo Became Docens

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Knowing, Learning and Teaching—How Homo Became Docens

Högberg, Anders, Peter Gärdenfors, and Lars Larsson. 2015. Knowing, Learning and Teaching—How Homo Became Docens. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25 (04):...
 Children, Teaching and the Evolution of Humankind

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Children, Teaching and the Evolution of Humankind

Högberg, Anders, and Peter Gärdenfors. 2015. Children, Teaching and the Evolution of Humankind. Childhood in the Past 8 (2): 113–21. doi:10.1179/1758571615...
 Evolutionary Mechanisms of Teaching

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Evolutionary Mechanisms of Teaching

Gärdenfors, Peter, and Anders Högberg. 2015. Evolutionary Mechanisms of Teaching. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38 (June): e41. doi:10.1017/S0140525X140004...
 Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans

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Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans

Lombard, Marlize and Peter Gärdenfors. 2017. Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 95, 219–234. https:...
 The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens

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The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens

Gärdenfors, Peter and Anders Högberg. 2017. The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens. Current Anthropology, 58(2), 188–208. https://doi...
 Demonstration and Pantomime in the Evolution of Teaching

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Demonstration and Pantomime in the Evolution of Teaching

Gärdenfors, Peter. 2017. Demonstration and Pantomime in the Evolution of Teaching. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389fpsyg.2017.00415
 Causal Cognition, Force Dynamics and Early Hunting Technologies

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Causal Cognition, Force Dynamics and Early Hunting Technologies

Gärdenfors, Peter and Marlize Lombard. 2018. Causal Cognition, Force Dynamics and Early Hunting Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/1...
Semantic domains of demonstratives and articles: A view of deictic referentiality explored on the paradigm of Croatian demonstratives

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Semantic domains of demonstratives and articles: A view of deictic referentiality explored on the paradigm of Croatian demonstratives

Gärdenfors, Peter and Maja Brala-Vukanović. 2018. Semantic domains of demonstratives and articles: A view of deictic referentiality explored on the paradig...
 Pantomime as a Foundation for Ritual and Language

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Pantomime as a Foundation for Ritual and Language

Gärdenfors, Peter. 2018. Pantomime as a Foundation for Ritual and Language. Studia Liturgica, 48(1–2), 41–55. https://doi.org/10.117700393207180481-204
 Levels of communication and lexical semantics

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Levels of communication and lexical semantics

Gärdenfors, Peter. 2018. Levels of communication and lexical semantics. Synthese, 195(2), 549–569. https://doi.org/10.1007s11229-014-0493-3
 Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning

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Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning

Gärdenfors, Peter and Marlize Lombard. 2020. Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning. Biology & Philosophy, 35(4), 40. https://doi.org/10.1007...
Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology

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Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology

Lombard, Marlize and Peter Gärdenfors. 2021. Causal Cognition and Theory of Mind in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology. Biological Theory. https://doi.org/...