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Zusatztext This is an excellent, informative book on animal rationality. Klappentext To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science today - how closely does mental processing in animals resemble mental processing in humans. It addresses the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational! that is! whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes. With adistinguished line-up of leading thinkers from philosophy and psychology! the book presents the first multidisciplinary examination of this topic. Zusammenfassung Focuses on one of the major debates in science - how closely does mental processing in animals resembles mental processing in humans. This book aims to answer the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational, that is, whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Susan Hurley and Matthew Nudds: The questions of animal rationality: theory and evidence Part I - Types and levels of rationality 2: Alex Kacelnik: Meanings of rationality 3: Fred I. Dretske: Minimal rationality 4: Ruth Garrett Millikan: Styles of rationality 5: Jose Luis Bermudez: Animal reasoning and proto-logic 6: Susan Hurley: Making sense of animals Part II - Rational versus associative processes 7: Colin Allen: Transitive inference in animals: reasoning or conditioned associations? 8: David Papineau and Cecilia Heyes: Rational or associative: Imitation in Japanese quail 9: Nicky Clayton, Nathan Emery and Anthony Dickinson: The rationality of animal memory: complex caching strategies of western scrub jays Part III - Metacognition 10: Josep Call: Descartes' two errors: reason and reflection in the great apes 11: Sara J. Shettleworth and Jennifer E. Sutton: Do animals know what they know? 12: Joelle Proust: Metacognition and animal rationality 13: Gregory Currie: Rationality, decentring, and the evidence for pretence in nonhuman animals Part IV - Social behavior and cognition 14: Kim Sterelny: Folk logic and animal rationality 15: Elsa Addessi and Elisabetta Visalberghi: Rationality in capuchin monkey's feeding behavior? 16: Richard Connor and Janet Mann: Social cognition in the wild: Machiavellian dolphins? Part V - Mind reading and behaviour reading 17: Michael Tomasello and Josep Call: Do chimpanzees know what others see - or only what they are looking at? 18: Daniel Povinelli and Jennifer Vonk: We don't need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee's mind 19: Alain J-P. C. Tschudin: Belief attribution tasks with dolphins: what social minds can reveal about animal rationality Part VI - Behavior and cognition in symbolic environments 20: Louis M. Herman: Intelligence and rational behaviour in the bottle-nosed dolphin 21: Irene M. Pepperberg: Intelligence and rationality in parrots 22: Sarah T. Boysen: Effects of symbols on chimpanzee cognition 23: E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Duane M. Rumbaugh and William M. Fields: Language as a window on rationality ...
