Animal Mind Human Mind

1982

Author: Donald Redfield Griffin

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: CORNELL:31924001849888

Category: Animal behavior

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Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Animal Mind — Human Mind, Berlin 1981, March 22–27 D. R. Griffin. Dahlem Konferenzen 1982. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. Brain Functions and Mental Processes S. A. Hillyard" and F. E. ...

Author: D. R. Griffin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9783642684692

Category: Psychology

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the oleic acid on a live and wriggling sister or mother and refrain from evicting her from our hive. But does the occur rence of unintelligent behavior suffice to demonstrate the total absence of mental experience under any circumstances? Ethologists from some distant galaxy could easily discern ex amples of stupid and maladaptive behavior in our own species. But do instances of human stupidity prove that none of us is ever consciously aware of what he is dOing? No available evi dence compels us to believe that insects, or any other animals, experience any sort of consciousness, or intentionally plan any of their behavior. But neither are we compelled to believe the contrary. In areas where data are few and of limited rel evance, dogmatic negativity can easily limit what scientists even try to investigate, and thus perhaps delay or prevent im portant insights and discoveries. Many of the participants agreed that a good starting point would be to consider what we know of our own thinking, subjec tive feelings, and consciousness, and then move on to inquire whether other species experience anything similar. Such an ap proach was once considered fallaciously anthropomorphic. But it seems now to be widely if not universally recognized that this is a serious objection only if one has already assumed in advance that conscious thinking is uniquely human, and the accu sation of anthropomorphism is then merely a reiteration of the prior conviction.

The Animal Mind

2020-06-08

The second edition includes a new chapter on animal culture.

Author: Kristin Andrews

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351362962

Category: Philosophy

Page: 320

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The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated introductory text, Kristin Andrews introduces and assesses the essential topics, problems, and debates as they cut across animal cognition and philosophy of mind, citing historical and cutting-edge empirical data and case studies throughout. The second edition includes a new chapter on animal culture. There are also new sections on the evolution of consciousness and tool use in animals, as well as substantially revised sections on mental representation, belief, communication, theory of mind, animal ethics, and moral psychology. Further features such as chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary make The Animal Mind an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of mind, philosophy of animal minds or animal cognition. It will also be an excellent resource for those in fields such as ethology, biology, and psychology.

Animal Bodies Human Minds Ape Dolphin and Parrot Language Skills

2013-04-17

THE ANIMAL MIND Finally, David Premack asks" whether animal and human minds are better represented by overlapping circles or by concentric circles with animal abilities totally contained within the larger circle of human intelligence.

Author: W.A. Hillix

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781475745122

Category: Science

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Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few research projects. We have provided a more encompassing view of this field. We also want to reinforce what other authors, for example Jane Goodall, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Penny Patterson, Birute Galdikas, and Roger and Deborah Fouts, so passionately convey about our responsibility for our closest animal kin. This book surveys what was known, or believed about animal language throughout history and prehistory, and summarizes current knowledge and the controversy around it. The authors identify and attempt to settle most of the problems in interpreting the animal behaviours that have been observed in studies of animal language ability.

The Cognitive Animal

2002-06-21

Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, Gordon M. Burghardt ... Animal Learning & Behavior 24 : 123–141 . Crane , E. ( 1983 ) . ... In Animal Mind — Human Mind , D. R. Griffin , ed . , pp .

Author: Marc Bekoff

Publisher: MIT Press

ISBN: 0262523221

Category: Psychology

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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.

The Animal Mind

2014-10-30

minds. Close your eyes, and reach for an object in front of you. Now open your eyes, and try to identify which object you touched. Easy, right? For human adults, cross modal perception between the visual and tactile senses is natural.

Author: Kristin Andrews

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317676768

Category: Philosophy

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The study of animal cognition raises profound questions about the minds of animals and philosophy of mind itself. Aristotle argued that humans are the only animal to laugh, but in recent experiments rats have also been shown to laugh. In other experiments, dogs have been shown to respond appropriately to over two hundred words in human language. In this introduction to the philosophy of animal minds Kristin Andrews introduces and assesses the essential topics, problems and debates as they cut across animal cognition and philosophy of mind. She addresses the following key topics: what is cognition, and what is it to have a mind? What questions should we ask to determine whether behaviour has a cognitive basis? the science of animal minds explained: ethology, behaviourist psychology, and cognitive ethology rationality in animals animal consciousness: what does research into pain and the emotions reveal? What can empirical evidence about animal behaviour tell us about philosophical theories of consciousness? does animal cognition involve belief and concepts; do animals have a ‘Language of Thought’? animal communication other minds: do animals attribute ‘mindedness’ to other creatures? moral reasoning and ethical behaviour in animals animal cognition and memory. Extensive use of empirical examples and case studies is made throughout the book. These include Cheney and Seyfarth’s ververt monkey research, Thorndike’s cat puzzle boxes, Jensen’s research into humans and chimpanzees and the ultimatum game, Pankseep and Burgdorf’s research on rat laughter, and Clayton and Emery’s research on memory in scrub-jays. Additional features such as chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make this an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of mind, animal cognition. It will also be an excellent resource for those in fields such as ethology, biology and psychology.

Readings in Animal Cognition

1996

Animal Mind , Human Mind : Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Animal Mind - Human Mind . Berlin : Springer - Verlag , pp . 269–298 . Grice , H. P. ( 1957 ) , “ Meaning , ” Philosophical Review 66 : 377–388 .

Author: Marc Bekoff

Publisher: MIT Press

ISBN: 026252208X

Category: Psychology

Page: 379

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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

Experiencing Animal Minds

2012-11-27

In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them.

Author: Julie A. Smith

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 9780231530767

Category: Nature

Page: 416

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In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary studies, and art, as well as chapters by and about people who live and work with animals, including the founder of a sanctuary for chickens, a fur trapper, a popular canine psychologist, a horse trainer, and an art photographer who captures everyday contact between humans and their animal companions. Divided into five sections, the collection first considers the ways that humans live with animals and the influence of cohabitation on their perceptions of animals' minds. It follows with an examination of anthropomorphism as both a guide and hindrance to mapping animal consciousness. Chapters next examine the effects of embodiment on animals' minds and the role of animal-human interembodiment on humans' understandings of animals' minds. Final sections identify historical representations of difference between human and animal consciousness and their relevance to pre-established cultural attitudes, as well as the ways that representations of animals' minds target particular audiences and sometimes produce problematic outcomes. The editors conclude with a discussion of the relationship between the book's chapters and two pressing themes: the connection between human beliefs about animals' minds and human ethical behavior, and the challenges and conditions for knowing the minds of animals. By inviting readers to compare and contrast multiple, uncommon points of view, this collection offers a unique encounter with the diverse perspectives and theories now shaping animal studies.

Animal Minds

1992

( Reprinted 1986 by Cornell University Press , Ithaca , N.Y. ) 1981. The question of animal awareness . 2d ed . New York : Rockefeller University Press . ed . 1982. Introduction to animal mind - human mind . New York : Springer . 1984.

Author: Donald R. Griffin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226308642

Category: Nature

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"Animal Minds tackles a question that is both fascinating and important. The overwhelming body of evidence that Donald Griffin has assembled puts beyond reasonable doubt the case for recognizing that many non-human animals . . . are capable of much more sophisticated thinking than many scientists have been prepared to believe".--Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation.

Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind

2003-03-30

The human mind does not qualitatively differ from the minds of animals (or only primates or apes): or b. The human mind is qualitatively different from animal minds. In defending that view, at least some specific examples of qualitative ...

Author: Aaro Toomela

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9780313072512

Category: Psychology

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This volume is unique in integrating different domains of psychology, at both theoretical and empirical levels of analysis, in order to understand the development of the human mind. Perspectives include comparative, cultural, and developmental psychology, in addition to neuropsychology. Contributors in this edited collection emphasize both the collective nature of human cognition and the impossibility of separating individuals from their sociocultural environments. They also explain how participation in culture leads to radical changes in an individual's psychological makeup. This volume may also be of interest to anthropologists, philosophy scholars, and semioticians. Major topics include: • Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology • Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain • Cultural Perspective on the Human Development • The Role of Culture in Child Development

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