A tutorial talk by Timo Honkela in Modeling Meaning and Knowledge series of mini-symposia at University of Helsinki. The talk took place on Monday, 4st of April, 2016.

1. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016
Timo Honkela
Modeling Meaning and Knowledge
4 Apr 2016
timo.honkela@helsinki.fi
Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific
Revolutions and Gärdenfors’
Conceptual Spaces

2. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016
Thomas S. Kuhn:
Scructure of Scientific Revolutions
Santiago, Chile, 12.12.2012
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn

3. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016
Scructure of Scientific Revolutions
● The discovery of "anomalies" during
revolutions in science leads to new paradigms
● New paradigms then ask new questions of old
data, move beyond the mere "puzzle-solving"
of the previous paradigm, change the rules of
the game and the "map" directing new
research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions

4. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016
Scructure of Scientific Revolutions
Revolution in science
Revolution in
concepts and terms

5. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016
Conceptual Spaces
● A conceptual space is a multi-dimensional
feature space where points denote objects,
and regions denote concepts.
● In conceptual spaces,
quality dimensions
denote basic features
in which concepts
and objects can
be compared.

6. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016
Gärdenfors on Kuhn

7. Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016
From conceptual change to scientific revolutions
Five types of change
● (1) addition or deletion of
special laws
● (2) change in scale or
metric
● (3) change in the importance
of dimensions
● (4) change in the separability
of dimensions
● (5) addition or deletion of dimensions
http://cogsys.blogspot.fi/2013/02/the-fourth-workshop-on-modeling.html
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