Readings in Animal Cognition

Name: Readings in Animal Cognition
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ISBN: 9780262522083

ISBN-10: 026252208X

ISBN-13: 9780262522083

Edition: 1996

Authors: Marc Bekoff, Dale Jamieson

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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…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/21/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published numerous books, including The Emotional Lives of Animals, and has provided expert commentary for many media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, and the BBC.



Preface



The Myth of Anthropomorphism




Gendered Knowledge? Examining Influences on Scientific and Ethological Inquiries




Interpretive Cognitive Ethology




Concept Attribution in Nonhuman Animals: Theoretical and Methodological Problems in Ascribing Complex Mental Processes




On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology




Aspects of the Cognitive Ethology of an Injury-Feigning Bird, The Piping Plover




Tradition in Animals: Field Observations and Laboratory Analyses




The Study of Adaptation




The Units of Behavior in Evolutionary Explanations




Levels of Analysis and the Functional Significance of Helping Behavior




The Ubiquitous Concept of Recognition with Special Reference to Kin




Do Animals Choose Habitats?




The Influence of Models on the Interpretation of Vigilance




Is There an Evolutionary Biology of Play?




Intentionality, Social Play, and Definition




Communication and Expectations: A Social Process and the Cognitive Operation It Depends Upon and Influences




Animal Communication and Social Evolution




Animal Language: Methodological and Interpretive Issues




Knowledge Acquisition and Asymmetry between Language Comprehension and Production: Dolphins and Apes as General Models for Animals




Evolution and Psychological Unity




The Mental Lives of Nonhuman Animals




Inside the Mind of a Monkey




A Bat without Qualities?




Afterword: Ethics and the Study of Animal Cognition



Contributors


Index