This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory beginning with an
introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the chapters. The first section explores issues
of linguistic semantics including speakers' negotiation of meaning. Further sections address
computational and ontological aspects of constructing conceptual spaces while the final
section looks at philosophical applications. Domains include artificial intelligence and
robotics epistemology and philosophy of science lexical semantics and pragmatics agent-based
simulation perspectivism framing contrast sensory modalities and music among others.This
collection provides evidence of the wide application range of this theory of knowledge
representation. The papers in this volume derive from international experts across different
fields including philosophy cognitive science linguistics robotics computer science and
geography. Each contributor has successfully applied conceptual spaces theory as a modeling
tool in their respective areas of expertise. Graduates as well as researchers in the areas of
epistemology linguistics geometric knowledge representation and the mathematical modeling of
cognitive processes should find this book of particular interest.
