Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Mental representation, conceptual spaces and metaphors

  • Published:
Synthese Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Black, M.: 1979, ‘More about Metaphor’, in A. Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 19–45.

    Google Scholar 

  • Churchland, P. M.: 1986a, ‘Cognitive Neurobiology: A Computational Hypothesis for Laminar Cortex’, Biology & Philosophy 1, 25–51.

    Google Scholar 

  • Churchland, P. M.: 1986b, ‘Some Reductive Strategies in Cognitive Neurobiology’, Mind 95, 279–309.

    Google Scholar 

  • Churchland, P. S.: 1986, Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain, Bradford Books, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cook, N. D.: 1986, The Brain Code, Methuen, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Descartes, R.: 1664, Traité de l'Homme, Angot, Paris. Published in French in Vol. 11 of Œuvres de Descartes by C. Adam and P. Tannery, Léopold Cerf, Paris, 1909.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fodor, J. A.: 1981, Representations, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fodor, J. A. and Z. Pylyshyn: 1988, ‘Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis’, Cognition 28, 3–71.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foss, J.: 1988, ‘The Percept and Vector Function Theories of the Brain’, Philosophy of Science 55, 511–37.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gabrielsson, A.: 1981, ‘Music Psychology — A Survey of Problems and Current Research Activities’, in Basic Musical Functions and Musical Ability, Publications issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, No. 32, pp. 7–80.

  • Gärdenfors, P.: 1988, ‘Semantics, Conceptual Spaces and the Dimensions of Music’, in V. Rantala, L. Rowell, and E. Tarasti (eds.), Essays on the Philosophy of Music, (Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 43), Helsinki, pp. 9–27.

  • Gärdenfors, P.: 1990, ‘Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI’, Philosophy of Science 57, 78–95.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goodman, N.: 1955, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hempel, C. G.: 1965, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Free Press, New York, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Herskovits, A.: 1986, Language and Spatial Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Prepositions in English, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Indurkhya, B.: 1986, ‘Constrained Semantic Transference: A Formal Theory of Metaphors’, Synthese 68, 515–551.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jackendoff, R.: 1983, Semantics and Cognition, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jackendoff, R.: 1987, ‘On Beyond Zebra: The Relation of Linguistic and Visual Information’, Cognition 26, 89–114.

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, M. G. and R. G. Malgady: 1980, ‘Toward a Perceptual Theory of Metaphoric Comprehension’, in R. P. Honeck and R. R. Hoffman (eds.), Cognition and Figurative Language, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 259–282.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuhn, T.: 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed., University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lakoff, G.: 1987, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lakoff, G.: 1988, ‘Smolensky, Semantics and the Sensorimotor System’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11, 39–40.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lakoff, G. and M. Johnson: 1980, Metaphors We Live By, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

    Google Scholar 

  • Land, E.: 1977, ‘The Retinex Theory of Color Vision’, Scientific American 237, 108–28.

    Google Scholar 

  • Langacker, R. W.: 1986, ‘An Introduction to Cognitive Grammar’, Cognitive Science 10, 1–40.

    Google Scholar 

  • Langacker, R. W.: 1987, Foundations of Cognitive Grammar (Vol. 1), Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Marcus, R. B.: 1987, ‘Believing and Claiming to Believe’, manuscript, Department of Philosophy, Yale University.

  • Marr, D.: 1982, Vision, Freeman, San Francisco, CA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Marr, D. and H. K. Nishihara: 1978: ‘Representation and Recognition of the Spatial Organization of Three-dimensional Shapes’, Proceedings of the Royal Society in London, B 200, 269–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Osgood, C. E.: 1980, ‘The Cognitive Dynamics of Synesthesia and Metaphor’, in R. P. Honeck and R. R. Hoffman (eds.), Cognition and Figurative Language, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 203–238.

    Google Scholar 

  • Palmer, S. E.: 1978, ‘Fundamental Aspects of Cognitive Representation’, in E. Rosch and B. B. Lloyd (eds.), Cognition and Categorization, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 259–303.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pellionisz, A. and R. Llinas: 1979, ‘Brain Modeling by Tensor Network Theory and Computer Simulation. The Cerebellum: Distributed Processor for Predictive Coordination’, Neuroscience 4, 323–48.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pellionisz, A. and R. Llinas: 1980, ‘Tensorial Approach to the Geometry of Brain Function: Cerebellar Coordination via a Metric Tensor’, Neuroscience 5, 1125–36.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pellionisz, A.: and R. Llinas: 1982, ‘Space-time Representation in the Brain. The Cerebellum as a Predictive Space-time Metric Tensor’, Neuroscience 7, 2949–70.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pellionisz, A. and Llinas, R.: 1985, ‘Tensor Network Theory of the Metaorganization of Functional Geometries in the Central Nervous System’, Neuroscience 16, 245–73.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pentland, A. P.: 1986, ‘Perceptual Organization and the Representation of Natural Form’, Artificial Intelligence 28, 293–331.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pylyshyn, Z.: 1984, Computation and Cognition, Bradford Books, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smolensky, P.: 1988, ‘On the Proper Treatment of Connectionism’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11, 1–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tourangeau, R. and R. J. Sternberg: 1982, ‘Understanding and Appreciating Metaphors’, Cognition 11, 203–44.

    Google Scholar 

  • Toulmin, S. and J. Goodfield: 1965, The Discovery of Time, Harmondsworth.

  • Vaina, L.: 1983, ‘From Shapes and Movements to Objects and Actions’, Synthese 54, 3–36.

    Google Scholar 

  • Verbrugge, R. R.: 1980, ‘Transformations in Knowing: A Realist View of Metaphor’, in R. P. Honeck and R. R. Hoffman (eds.), Cognition and Figurative Language, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 87–125.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Lund, Sweden

    Peter Gärdenfors

Authors
  1. Peter Gärdenfors
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

I wish to thank Ruth Barcan Marcus, Max Black, Martin Edman, Jaakko Hintikka, David Pears, and Åsa Wikforss for helpful comments on a much earlier version of this paper which was presented at the entretien of the International Institute of Philosophy in Stockholm, September 1987. For comments on a later version I am grateful to Paul Churchland, Paul Hemeren, and Mark Johnson. Research for this work has been supported by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Gärdenfors, P. Mental representation, conceptual spaces and metaphors. Synthese 106, 21–47 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413612

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413612

Keywords

Search

Navigation