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8Book reviews (review)Philosophical Psychology 11 (1): 89-109. 1998.How to build a theory in cognitive science. Valerie Gray Hardcastle. Albany: State University of New York. Press, 1996Language, thought, and consciousness. Peter Carruthers. Cambridge: Cambridge University. Press, 1996. ISBN 0–521–48158–9 (hc)Young children's knowledge about thinking. John H. Flavell, Frances L. Green & Eleanor R. Flavell with Commentary by Paul L. Harris & Janet Wilde Astington. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995, 60 (1, Serial No, 243) Chicago: T…Read more
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5John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes, eds., The Logical Foundations of Cognition Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (3): 188-190. 1995.
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5Transitive inference in animals: Reasoning or conditioned associations?In Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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4Animal consciousnessIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Blackwell. 2007.
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1""Baker, Steve Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation. Urbana: University of Illinois. Barresi, J. and Moore, C." Intentional relations and social understanding." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19: 107-154. Bekoff, Marc Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions. and Heart, New York: Oxford University (review)In Susan Jean Armstrong & Richard George Botzler (eds.), The animal ethics reader, Routledge. pp. 143. 2003.
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1Review of Peter Carruthers' Language, thought, and consciousness (review)Philosophical Psychology 11 91-94. 1998.
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Species of Mind. The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive EthologyJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 33 (1): 163-168. 2002.
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Teleological Notions in BiologyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2020.The manifest appearance of function and purpose in living systems is responsible for the prevalence of apparently teleological explanations of organismic structure and behavior in biology. Although the attribution of function and purpose to living systems is an ancient practice, teleological notions are largely considered ineliminable from modern biological sciences, such as evolutionary biology, genetics, medicine, ethology, and psychiatry, because they play an important explanatory role. Histo…Read more
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Attributing Intentional States to Animals: Philosophical Issues Arising in Cognitive EthologyDissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 1989.The naturalistic theory of mind that arises from ethology is faced with the question of continuity between human mind and animal mind. In particular, the applicability of intentional, mentalistic terms to animals arises. I argue that cognitive ethologists can and should operate with a realistic conception of intentional states in animals. ;I start by considering arguments claiming to show that the attribution of intentional states presents special difficulties in the case of animals, because the…Read more
UCLA
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
PhilPapers Editorships
Animal Minds |
Animal Communication |
Animal Minds, Misc |