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Informationen zum Autor Robert W. Lurz is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. Klappentext Do animals think? Are they self-aware? Do they have emotions? This book explores the philosophical issues concerning animal minds. Zusammenfassung Do animals think? Are they self-aware? Do they have emotions? This collection of fourteen essays examines issues concerning the nature! existence! and our knowledge of animal minds. Topics covered include whether and to what degree animals think! reason! are conscious! self-aware! and aware of other animals' minds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Philosophy of animal minds: an introduction Robert W. Lurz; 1. What do animals think? Dale Jamieson; 2. Attributing mental representations to animals Eric Saidel; 3. Chrysippus's dog as a case study in non-linguistic cognition Michael Rescorla; 4. Systematicity and intentional realism in honeybee navigation Michael Tetzlaff and Georges Rey; 5. Invertebrate concepts confront the generality constraint (and win) Peter Carruthers; 6. A language of baboon thought? Elisabeth Camp; 7. Animal communication and neo-expressivism Andrew McAninch, Grant Goodrich and Colin Allen; 8. Mindreading in the animal kingdom? José Bermúdez; 9. The representational basis of brute metacognition: a proposal Joëlle Proust; 10. Animals, consciousness, and I-thoughts Rocco J. Gennaro; 11. Self-awareness in animals David DeGrazia; 12. The sophistication of non-human emotion Robert C. Roberts; 13. Parsimony and models of animal minds Elliott Sober; 14. The primate mind-reading controversy: a case study in simplicity and methodology in animal psychology Simon Fitzpatrick; Glossary of key terms; References; Index.
