The philosophy of animal minds /

This volume is a collection of fourteen essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of animal minds has been a topic of interest to philosophers since the origins of philosophy, and recent years have seen significant philos...

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Other Authors: Lurz, Robert W., 1968- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • The philosophy of animal minds : an introduction / Robert W. Lurz
  • What do animals think? / Dale Jamieson
  • Attributing mental representations to animals / Eric Saida
  • Chrysippus' dog as a case study in non-linguistic cognition / Michael Rescorla
  • Systematicity and intentional realism in honeybee navigation / Michael Tetztaffand Georges Rey
  • Invertebrate concepts confront the generality constraint (and win) / Peter Carruthers
  • A language of baboon thought? / Elisabeth Camp
  • Animal communication and neo-expressivism / Andrew McAninch, Grant Goodrich, and Colin Allen
  • Mindreading in the animal kingdom / José Luis Bermúdez
  • The representational basis of brute metacognition: a proposal / Joëlle Proust
  • Animals, consciousness, and I-thoughts / Rocco J. Gennaro
  • Self-awareness in animals / David DeGrazia
  • The sophistication of non-human emotion / Robert C. Roberts
  • Parsimony and models of animal minds / Elliott Sober
  • The primate mindreading controversy : a case study in simplicity and methodology in animal psychology / Simon Fitzpatrick.