Feral Children and Clever Animals Reflections on Human Nature

Name: Feral Children and Clever Animals Reflections on Human Nature
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ISBN: 9780195102840

ISBN-10: 0195102843

ISBN-13: 9780195102840

Edition: 1993 (Reprint)

Authors: Douglas K. Candland

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What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human?In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans `think', we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature.Among the fascinating accounts of feral children and clever animals from which the book draws its arguments are the Wolf Girls of India, Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Kaspar Hauser, and `Clever Hans', the German horse that could calculate square roots.

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/26/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.94" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Chronology


Prelude


Introduction



What Feral Children Tell Us



Nature and Nurture: Children Without Human Parenting



Kaspar Hauser and the Wolf-Children



Psychologies Part II


Thinking About the Mind 3



The Psychology of Psychoanalysis: Freud and Little Hans



The Psychology of Experimentalism and Behaviorism: Clever Hans and Lady Wonder



Experimentation and the Experimenter: Clever Hans's Companions



The Psychologies of Perceiving: Phenomenology and Ethology


The Mental Ladder Part III



Peter and Moses: Chimpanzees Who Write



Exploiting the Missing Link



People and Apes Communicating



Raising Human Babies with Chimps: Donald, Gua, and Viki



Human and Ape Communication: Washoe, Koko, and Nim



Language and Meaning: Sarah 12 and Lana, Sherman and Austin, Kanzi and Ai


Principles and Myths Part V



What Feral Children and Clever Animals Tell Us


Notes


References


Illustration Credits


Text Credits


Index