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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series |
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Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; REMINISCENCES; PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; 1 PROGRESS TOWARD A COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY; Abstract; Definitions; Critical Standards; Premature Perfectionism; Epiphenomenalism; Implications of Assuming Human Mental Uniqueness; Cognitive Creativity; Species Solipsism; Disparagement of "Folk Psychology"; Criteria of Animal Awareness; Communication as Evidence of Thinking; References; 2 FROM FOLK PSYCHOLOGY TO COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY; Abstract; Introduction; Folk Psychology; Functionalism; Cognitive Ethology; References |
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3 HOW IS COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY POSSIBLE?Abstract; Introduction; Mind as Explanatory; The Causal Share; Another Kind of Explanation; The Notorious Triangle; From Triangle to Square; "Higher" and "Lower"; Testing Mentalistic Hypotheses; The Guiding Rule; The Output Side of the Story; References; PART II: EVIDENCE FROM THE LABORATORY AND FIELD; 4 COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY AND CRITICAL ANTHROPOMORPHISM: A SNAKE WITH TWO HEADS AND HOG-NOSE SNAKES THATPLAY DEAD; Abstract; Cognition and Reptiles; Cognition and Cognitive Ethology; IM; Behaviorism and Mental Constructs |
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The Magnificent Display of the Hognose SnakeDeath Feigning; Further Consideration of the Magnificent Hognose Display; Critical Anthropomorphism; Intentionality and the Hognose Snake; Decision Making; Premonitions of Cognitive Ethology; Some Final Thoughts; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 5 ASPECTS OF THE COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY OF AN INJURY-FEIGNING BIRD, THE PIPING PLOVER; Abstract; Introduction: Some Philosophical Problems; The Injury-Feigning Plovers; The Gaze Experiments; Can Birds Discriminate Between Safe and Dangerous Intruders?; Discussion; Acknowledgments; References |
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6 TRUTH AND DECEPTION IN ANIMAL COMMUNICATIONAbstract; Introduction; Theoretical Background; Constraints on the Use of Deceptive Signals; Deception Through Silence; Signalling False Information; Detection of Deception and the Assessment of Signal Meaning; Discussion: Deception and the Assessment of Meaning; Summary; References; 7 A COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO ANIMAL COGNITION: A STUDY OF CONCEPTUAL ABILITIES OF AN AFRICAN GREY PARROT; Abstract; Introduction; Cognition in the Grey Parrot: Abilities of a Nonprimate, Nonmammalian Subject; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References |
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8 DO ANIMALS HAVE THE OPTION OF WITHHOLDING SIGNALS WHEN COMMUNICATION IS INAPPROPRIATE? THE AUDIENCE EFFECTAbstract; Signals with Danger as a Referent: Alarm Calls; Audience Effects on Calls with Food as a Referent; Are Audience Effects Mediated by Arousal?; Deceptive Signalling: A Possible Case; Conclusions; References; 9 ANIMAL COMMUNICATION AND THE STUDY OF COGNITION; Abstract; Signalling; Responding to Signals; Summary; Acknowlegments; References; 10 CONSCIOUS CHIMPANZEES? A REVIEW OF RECENT LITERATURE; Abstract; Introduction; Solo Behavior; Social Awareness and Deception; Social Tools |
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This collection of essays was written by former students, associates, admirers, critics and friends of Donald R. Griffin -- the creator of cognitive ethology. Stimulated by his work, this volume presents ideas and experiments in the field of cognitive ethology -- the exploration of the mental experiences of animals as they behave in their natural environment during the course of their normal lives. Cognitive Ethology discusses the possibility that animals may have abilities to experience, communicate, reason, and plan beyond those usually ascribed to them in a ""black box"" or " |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Marler, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781317785330 |
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1317785339 |
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