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26Smoke and mirrors: Testing the scope of chimpanzees’ appearance–reality understandingCognition 150 (C): 53-67. 2016.
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73But do animals know that other creatures have minds? And how would we know if they do? In "Mindreading Animals," Robert Lurz offers a fresh approach to the hotly debated question of mental-state attribution in nonhuman animals.
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41Does Comparative Animal Cognition Need to Be Saved by Cognitive Modeling?Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (S1): 98-108. 2014.Colin Allen prescribes cognitive modeling as “the right kind of theory” to use in comparative animal cognition and predicts that unless researchers shift from using conceptual framework hypotheses (“the wrong kind of theory”) to cognitive models, the field will fail to be sustained or develop further. I argue, on the contrary, that the robust development of the field over the past 35 years actually belies Allen's dire prediction. What is more, there is reason to be concerned that if Allen's pres…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |