Readings in Animal Cognition

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Marc Bekoff, Dale Jamieson
MIT Press, 1996 - Psychology - 379 pages

This collection of 24 readings is the first comprehensive treatment of important topics by leading figures in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. Taken togther the essays provide the nucleus for an introductory course in animal cognition (cognitive ethology and comparative psychology), philosophy of biology, or philosophy of mind.Selections are grouped in five sections: Perspectives on Animal Cognition; Cognitive and Evolutionary Explanations; Recognition, Choice, Vigilance, and Play; Communication and Language; and Animal Minds. Seventeen essays are reprinted from the authors much cited two-volume collection, Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior. One essay taken from that book has been subsequently revised, and five additional essays are recent examples of critical thinking in cognitive ethology. The preface and final chapter, "Ethics and the Study of Animal Cognition," are new.A Bradford Book

 

Contents

Chapter 2
17
Chapter
21
Chapter 4
47
Chapter 5
65
Chapter 6
79
Chapter 8
107
The Units of Behavior in Evolutionary Explanations
129
Chapter 10
143
The Influence of Models on the Interpretation of Vigilance
201
Chapter 14
217
Chapter 16
243
Chapter 17
257
Chapter 19
289
The Mental Lives of Nonhuman Animals
323
Chapter 22
337
Chapter 24
359

Chapter 11
169
Chapter 12
185
Contributors
373
Copyright

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About the author (1996)

Marc Bekoff is Professor of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dale Jamieson is Director of Environmental Studies, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law at New York University.

Bibliographic information

TitleReadings in Animal Cognition
A Bradford book
EditorsMarc Bekoff, Dale Jamieson
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherMIT Press, 1996
ISBN026252208X, 9780262522083
Length379 pages
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Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Psychology / General
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
  
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