Abstract:Part 1 Perspectives in animal cognition: the myth of anthropomorphism, John Andrew Fisher gendered knowledge? examining influences on scientific and ethological inquiries, Lori Gruen interpretive cogn...Part 1 Perspectives in animal cognition: the myth of anthropomorphism, John Andrew Fisher gendered knowledge? examining influences on scientific and ethological inquiries, Lori Gruen interpretive cognitive ethology, Hugh Wilder concept attribution in nonhuman animals - theoretical and methodological problems in ascribing complex mental processes, Colin Allen and Marc Hauser. Part 2 Cognitive and evolutionary explanations: on aims and methods of cognitive ethology, Dale Jamieson and Marc Bekoff aspects of the cognitive ethology of an injury-feigning bird, the piping plover, Carolyn A. Ristau tradition in animals - field observations and laboratory analyses, Bennett G. Galef, Jr. the study of adaptation, Randy Thornhill the units of behaviour in evolutionary explanations, Mitchell levels of analysis and the functional significance of helping behaviour, Walter D. Koenig and Ronald L. Mumme. Part 3 Recognition, choice, vigilance and play: the uniquitous concept of recognition with special reference to kin, Andrew R. Blaustein and Richard H. Porter do animals choose habitats?, Michael L. Rosenzweig the influence of models on the interpretation of vigilance, Steven L. Lima is there an evolutionary biology of play?, Alexander Rosenberg intentionality, social play and definition, Colin Allen and Marc Bekoff. Part 4 Communication and language: communication and expectations -a social process and the cognitive operation it depends upon and influences, W. John Smith animal communication and social evolution, Michael Philips and Steven N. Austad animal language - methodological and interpretive issues, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Karen E. Brakke knowledge acquisition and asymmetry between language comprehension and production - dolphins and apes as general models for animals, Louis M. Herman and Palmer Morrel-Samuels evolution and psychological unity, Roger Crisp the mental lives of nonhuman animals, John Dupre inside the mind of a monkey, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney a bat without qualities?, Kathleen A. Akins afterword - ethics and the study of animal cognition, Dale Jamieson and Marc Bekoff.Read More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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