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Mental Evolution in Animals
Author | : George John Romanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Animal intelligence |
ISBN | : |
Mental Evolution in Man
Author | : George John Romanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
The Evolution of Cognition
Author | : Cecilia M. Heyes |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780262082860 |
In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a debate about how evolutionary processes have shaped cognition. The debate is divided into five sections: Orientations, on the phylogenetic, ecological, and psychological/comparative approaches to the evolution of cognition; Categorization, on how various animals parse their environments, how they represent objects and events and the relations among them; Causality, on whether and in what ways nonhuman animals represent cause and effect relationships; Consciousness, on whether it makes sense to talk about the evolution of consciousness and whether the phenomenon can be investigated empirically in nonhuman animals; and Culture, on the cognitive requirements for nongenetic transmission of information and the evolutionary consequences of such cultural exchange. ContributorsBernard Balleine, Patrick Bateson, Michael J. Beran, M. E. Bitterman, Robert Boyd, Nicola Clayton, Juan Delius, Anthony Dickinson, Robin Dunbar, D.P. Griffiths, Bernd Heinrich, Cecilia Heyes, William A. Hillix, Ludwig Huber, Nicholas Humphrey, Masako Jitsumori, Louis Lefebvre, Nicholas Mackintosh, Euan M. Macphail, Peter Richerson, Duane M. Rumbaugh, Sara Shettleworth, Martina Siemann, Kim Sterelny, Michael Tomasello, Laura Weiser, Alexandra Wells, Carolyn Wilczynski, David Sloan Wilson
Species of Mind
Author | : Colin Allen |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999-07-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262511087 |
The heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. Colin Allen (a philosopher) and Marc Bekoff (a cognitive ethologist) approach their work from a perspective that considers arguments about evolutionary continuity to be as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for attributing cognition to nonhuman animals and for studying it, and cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition. This interdiscipinary approach reveals flaws in common objections to the view that animals have minds. The heart of the book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. All theoretical discussion is carefully tied to case studies, particularly in the areas of antipredatory vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. Allen and Bekoff make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigation of animal minds, and they stress the importance of studying animals other than nonhuman primates.
MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS W/
Author | : George John 1848-1894 Romanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2016-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781372765407 |
The Evolution of Mind
Author | : Denise D. Cummins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780195110531 |
In The Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the mind's evolution - from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities.
Mental Evolution in Animals
Author | : Charles Darwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2018-08-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783337636944 |