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ESSAYS ON THE MENTAL DIMENSION OF ANIMAL LIFE
ANIMAL
COGNITION
- From
Wikipedia
Animal cognition is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of
non-human animals.
ANIMAL
COGNITION AND ANIMAL MINDS - Colin
Allen
For a major part of the twentieth century, (nonhuman)
animal psychology was on a behavioristic track that explicitly
denied the possibility of a science of animal mind...
ANIMAL
CONSCIOUSNESS -
Colin Allen
There are the many reasons for philosophical
interest in nonhuman animal (hereafter "animal")
consciousness...
ANIMAL
INTELLIGENCE
- Edward L. Thorndike
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ANIMALITY
AND MORALITY: HUMAN REASON AS AN ANIMAL ACTIVITY
- Christopher j. Preston
I use studies of the embodied mind to show
that rationality is integrally connected to our animal and animate
nature and hence not a significant point of departure between human
and non-human animals.
ANIMAL
SUBJECTIVITY - Peter Carruthers
The main focus of "Natural theories of
consciousness" is the debate between first-order
representationalist and higher-order representationalist theories of
phenomenal consciousness - theories...
AVIAN
VISUAL COGNITION
- Robert
G. Cook
Birds
are highly visual and mobile animals, and vision's unmistakable
importance to these creatures is reflected in the huge relative size
of their eyes and the considerable portion of their brains devoted
to processing visual information.
COMPARISON
OF THE MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS
- by
Charles Darwin
My object is to show that there is no
fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their
mental faculties.
DO
ANIMALS HAVE BELIEFS? - Daniel
C. Dennett
Like
behaviorists, cognitivists believe that the purely physical brain
controls all behavior, without any help from poltergeists or egos or
souls, so what does this supposedly big difference come to?
OF
THE REASON OF ANIMALS
- David Hume
No truth appears to me more evident, than that beasts are endow'd with thought and reason as well as men.
THE
IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERRONEOUS: PROSPECTS FOR ANIMAL INTENTIONALITY
- David
Beisecker
The question of animal belief (or animal
intentionality) often degenerates into a frustrating and
unproductive exchange.
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