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Species of Mind

Author : Colin Allen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262511087
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Species of Mind written by Colin Allen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-07-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. Colin Allen (a philosopher) and Marc Bekoff (a cognitive ethologist) approach their work from a perspective that considers arguments about evolutionary continuity to be as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for attributing cognition to nonhuman animals and for studying it, and cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition. This interdiscipinary approach reveals flaws in common objections to the view that animals have minds. The heart of the book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. All theoretical discussion is carefully tied to case studies, particularly in the areas of antipredatory vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. Allen and Bekoff make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigation of animal minds, and they stress the importance of studying animals other than nonhuman primates.

A Companion to Cognitive Science

Author : William Bechtel
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631218517
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Cognitive Science written by William Bechtel and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-09-10 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this multidisciplinary companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to cognitive science.

Animal Minds

Author : Donald R. Griffin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622712X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Animal Minds written by Donald R. Griffin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Animal Minds, Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are they merely living machines, incapable of conscious thoughts or emotional feelings? How can we tell? Such questions have long fascinated Griffin, who has been a pioneer at the forefront of research in animal cognition for decades, and is recognized as one of the leading behavioral ecologists of the twentieth century. With this new edition of his classic book, which he has completely revised and updated, Griffin moves beyond considerations of animal cognition to argue that scientists can and should investigate questions of animal consciousness. Using examples from studies of species ranging from chimpanzees and dolphins to birds and honeybees, he demonstrates how communication among animals can serve as a "window" into what animals think and feel, just as human speech and nonverbal communication tell us most of what we know about the thoughts and feelings of other people. Even when they don't communicate about it, animals respond with sometimes surprising versatility to new situations for which neither their genes nor their previous experiences have prepared them, and Griffin discusses what these behaviors can tell us about animal minds. He also reviews the latest research in cognitive neuroscience, which has revealed startling similarities in the neural mechanisms underlying brain functioning in both humans and other animals. Finally, in four chapters greatly expanded for this edition, Griffin considers the latest scientific research on animal consciousness, pro and con, and explores its profound philosophical and ethical implications.

Cognitive Ethology

Author : Peter Marler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134990928
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Ethology written by Peter Marler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was written by former students, associates, admirers, critics and friends of Donald R. Griffin -- the creator of cognitive ethology. Stimulated by his work, this volume presents ideas and experiments in the field of cognitive ethology -- the exploration of the mental experiences of animals as they behave in their natural environment during the course of their normal lives. Cognitive Ethology discusses the possibility that animals may have abilities to experience, communicate, reason, and plan beyond those usually ascribed to them in a "black box" or "stimulus-response" interpretation of their behavior. Contributions from scientists who have been associated with or influenced by Griffin offer a lively array of views, some disparate from one another and some especially selected to present approaches contrary to his.

The Cognitive Animal

Author : Marc Bekoff
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262523226
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Cognitive Animal written by Marc Bekoff and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating various degrees of acceptance or disdain for such terms as "consciousness" and varying degrees of concern for laboratory experimentation versus naturalistic research. In addition to primates, particularly the nonhuman great apes, the animals discussed include antelopes, bees, dogs, dolphins, earthworms, fish, hyenas, parrots, prairie dogs, rats, ravens, sea lions, snakes, spiders, and squirrels. The topics include (but are not limited to) definitions of cognition, the role of anecdotes in the study of animal cognition, anthropomorphism, attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, consciousness, intentionality, communication, planning, play, aggression, dominance, predation, recognition, assessment of self and others, social knowledge, empathy, conflict resolution, reproduction, parent-young interactions and caregiving, ecology, evolution, kin selection, and neuroethology.

Cognitive Ethology

Author : Carolyn A. Ristau
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805802528
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Ethology written by Carolyn A. Ristau and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cognitive Ethology

Author : Carolyn A. Ristau
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317785320
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Ethology written by Carolyn A. Ristau and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was written by former students, associates, admirers, critics and friends of Donald R. Griffin -- the creator of cognitive ethology. Stimulated by his work, this volume presents ideas and experiments in the field of cognitive ethology -- the exploration of the mental experiences of animals as they behave in their natural environment during the course of their normal lives. Cognitive Ethology discusses the possibility that animals may have abilities to experience, communicate, reason, and plan beyond those usually ascribed to them in a "black box" or "stimulus-response" interpretation of their behavior. Contributions from scientists who have been associated with or influenced by Griffin offer a lively array of views, some disparate from one another and some especially selected to present approaches contrary to his.

Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science

Author : H. L. Roitblat
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262181662
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (816 download)

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Book Synopsis Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science by : H. L. Roitblat

Download or read book Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science written by H. L. Roitblat and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an animal-based, largely non-symbolic approach to understanding the basic mechanisms involved in adaptive intelligence. Contributions discuss and explain concepts and techniques, providing a balance of both theoretical and empirical approaches.

Animal Cognition

Author : Jacques Vauclair
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674037038
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Animal Cognition written by Jacques Vauclair and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Cognition presents a lucid and comprehensive overview of cognitive processes in animals--bees and wasps, cats and dogs, dolphins and sea otters, pigeons, titmice, and chimpanzees--and offers a novel discussion of the ways in which Piagetian concepts may be used to develop models for the study of animal cognition.

Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior

Author : Sara J. Shettleworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199717818
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior written by Sara J. Shettleworth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how might it have evolved? What is the current status of Darwin's claim that other species share the same "mental powers" as humans, but to different degrees? In this completely revised second edition of Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, Sara Shettleworth addresses these questions, among others, by integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition, in the broadest sense--from species-specific adaptations of vision in fish and associative learning in rats to discussions of theory of mind in chimpanzees, dogs, and ravens. She reviews the latest research on topics such as episodic memory, metacognition, and cooperation and other-regarding behavior in animals, as well as recent theories about what makes human cognition unique. In every part of this new edition, Shettleworth incorporates findings and theoretical approaches that have emerged since the first edition was published in 1998. The chapters are now organized into three sections: Fundamental Mechanisms (perception, learning, categorization, memory), Physical Cognition (space, time, number, physical causation), and Social Cognition (social knowledge, social learning, communication). Shettleworth has also added new chapters on evolution and the brain and on numerical cognition, and a new chapter on physical causation that integrates theories of instrumental behavior with discussions of foraging, planning, and tool using.

In the Eye of the Animal

Author : Patricia Cox Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295226
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book In the Eye of the Animal written by Patricia Cox Miller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detailed in Genesis—and when they appear, the distinctions between human and animal are often dissolved. How, asks Patricia Cox Miller, does one account for the stunning zoological imagination found in a wide variety of genres of ancient Christian texts? In the Eye of the Animal complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how textual and artistic images and interpretive procedures actually celebrated a continuum of human and animal life. Synthesizing early Christian studies, contemporary philosophy, animal studies, ethology, and modern poetry, Miller identifies two contradictory strands in early Christian thinking about animals. The dominant thread viewed the body and soul of the human being as dominical, or the crowning achievement of creation; animals, with their defective souls, related to humans only as reminders of the brutish physical form. However, the second strand relied upon the idea of a continuum of animal life, which enabled comparisons between animals and humans. This second tendency, explains Miller, arises particularly in early Christian literature in which ascetic identity, the body, and ethics intersect. She explores the tension between these modes by tracing the image of the animal in early Christian literature, from the ethical animal behavior on display in Basil of Caesarea's Hexaemeron and the anonymous Physiologus, to the role of animals in articulating erotic desire, and from the idyllic intimacy of monks and animals in literature of desert ascetism to early Christian art that envisions paradise through human-animal symbiosis.

Ethology and Human Development

Author : John Archer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389209966
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Ethology and Human Development written by John Archer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the results of several decades of ethological work on developmental psychology. It looks at human development from the context of the natural world, thereby re-establishing the links, begun with Charles Darwin, between research on child development and animal behaviour.

Patterns of Behavior

Author : Richard W. Burkhardt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226080900
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Behavior written by Richard W. Burkhardt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication

Author : Mark A. Bee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331948690X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication written by Mark A. Bee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from single neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes that underlie the communicative behaviors of signalers and receivers alike. In so doing, the contributing authors collectively integrate research questions and methods from behavioral ecology, cognitive ethology, comparative psychology, evolutionary biology, sensory ecology, and neuroscience. No less broad is the volume’s taxonomic coverage, which spans bees to blackbirds to baboons. The ultimate goal of the book is to stimulate additional research into the diversity and evolution of the psychological mechanisms that make animal communication possible.

The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition

Author : Allison B. Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110856125X
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition written by Allison B. Kaufman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook lays out the science behind how animals think, remember, create, calculate, and remember. It provides concise overviews on major areas of study such as animal communication and language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and teaching, numerical and quantitative abilities, as well as innovation and problem solving. The chapters also explore more nuanced topics in greater detail, showing how the research was conducted and how it can be used for further study. The authors range from academics working in renowned university departments to those from research institutions and practitioners in zoos. The volume encompasses a wide variety of species, ensuring the breadth of the field is explored.

Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

Author : Ádám Miklósi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199545669
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition written by Ádám Miklósi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to summarize the burgeoning research literature on the behavioural ecology of the dog. It presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour and highlights directions for future research. Providing links to human and primate behaviour research, it will appeal to anyone interested in behavioural ecology.

Readings in Animal Cognition

Author : Marc Bekoff
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522083
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Animal Cognition written by Marc Bekoff and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 24 readings is the first comprehensive treatment of important topics by leading figures in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. Taken togther the essays provide the nucleus for an introductory course in animal cognition (cognitive ethology and comparative psychology), philosophy of biology, or philosophy of mind.Selections are grouped in five sections: Perspectives on Animal Cognition; Cognitive and Evolutionary Explanations; Recognition, Choice, Vigilance, and Play; Communication and Language; and Animal Minds. Seventeen essays are reprinted from the authors much cited two-volume collection, Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior. One essay taken from that book has been subsequently revised, and five additional essays are recent examples of critical thinking in cognitive ethology. The preface and final chapter, "Ethics and the Study of Animal Cognition," are new.A Bradford Book