Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index

Probabilistic Reasoning and Evidentiary Value
Unreliable Probabilities, Risk Taking, and Decision Making
Rights, Games and Social Choice
The Dynamics of Belief Systems: Foundations vs. Coherence Theories
The Role of Expectations in Reasoning
How Logic Emerges from the Dynamics of Information
Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI
Three Levels of Inductive Inference
Frameworks for Properties: Possible Worlds vs. Conceptual Spaces
The Pragmatic Role of Modality in Natural Language
The Social Stance
The Emergence of Meaning
Does Semantices Need Reality?
The Nature of Man
Games That Genes Play?
The Detachment of Thought
Cognitive Science: From Computers to Anthills as Models of Human Thought

"This volume is a collection of some of the most important philosophical papers by Peter Gardenfors. Spanning a period of more than 20 years of his research, they cover a wide ground of topics, from early works on decision theory, belief revision and nonmonotonic logic to more recent work on conceptual spaces, inductive reasoning, semantics and the evolutions of thinking. Many of the papers have only been published in places that are difficult to access. The common theme of all the papers is the dynamics of thought. Several of the papers have become minor classics and the volume bears witness of the wide scope of Gardenfors' research and of his crisp and often witty style of writing. The volume will be of interest to researchers in philosophy and other cognitive sciences."--Jacket