Rational animals? / edited by Susan Hurley and Matthew Nudds.

The first collection to focus on animal rationality, this book brings together thinkers from philosophy & psychology to provide a multidisciplinary approach. Some chapters consider an individual species, while others address theoretical issues.

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Other Authors: Hurley, S. L. (Susan L.), Nudds, Matthew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • The questions of animal rationality : theory and evidence / Susan Hurley and Matthew Nudds
  • Meanings of rationality / Alex Kacelnik
  • Minimal rationality / Fred I. Dretske
  • Styles of rationality / Ruth Garrett Millikan
  • Animal reasoning and proto-logic / José Luis Bermúdez
  • Making sense of animals / Susan Hurley
  • Transitive inference in animals : reasoning or conditioned associations? / Colin Allen
  • Rational or associative? : imitation in Japanese quail / David Papineau and Cecilia Heyes
  • The rationality of animal memory : complex caching strategies of western scrub jays / Nicky Clayton, Nathan Emery and Anthony Dickinson
  • Descartes' two errors : reason and reflection in the great apes / Josep Call
  • Do animals know what they know? / Sara J. Shettleworth and Jennifer E. Sutton
  • Rationality and metacognition in non-human animals / Joëlle Proust
  • Rationality, decentring, and the evidence for pretence in non-human animals / Gregory Currie
  • Folk logic and animal rationality / Kim Sterelny
  • Rationality in capuchin monkey's feeding behaviour? / Elsa Addessi and Elisabetta Visalberghi
  • Social cognition in the wild : Machiavellian dolphins? / Richard Connor and Janet Mann
  • Do chimpanzees know what others see
  • or only what they are looking at? / Michael Tomasello and Josep Call
  • We don't need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee's mind / Daniel Povinelli and Jennifer Vonk
  • Belief attribution tasks with dolphins : what social minds can reveal about animal rationality / Alain J.-P.C. Tschudin
  • Intelligence and rational behaviour in the bottlenosed dolphin / Louis M. Herman
  • Intelligence and rationality in parrots / Irene M. Pepperberg
  • The impact of symbolic representations on chimpanzee cognition / Sarah T. Boysen
  • Language as a window on rationality / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Duane M. Rumbaugh and William M. Fields.