Rational Animals? - Hurley, Susan / Nudds, Matthew (eds.)
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To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science today - how closely does mental processing in animals resemble mental processing in humans. It addresses the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational, that is, whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes. With adistinguished line-up of leading thinkers from philosophy and psychology, the book presents the first multidisciplinary examination of this topic.…mehr

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To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science today - how closely does mental processing in animals resemble mental processing in humans. It addresses the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational, that is, whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes. With adistinguished line-up of leading thinkers from philosophy and psychology, the book presents the first multidisciplinary examination of this topic.
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Edited by Susan Hurley, University of Warwick and All Souls College, Oxford, UK and Matthew Nudds, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK

Contributors: Elsa Addessi, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Rome, Italy Colin Allen, Dept of History & Philsophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Jose Luis Bermudez, Philosophy, Neuroscience & Psychology Program, Washington University, St Louis, USA Sarah T Boysen, The Ohio State University, Columbia, USA Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Nicky Clayton, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK Richard Connor, Dept of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA Gregory Currie, Dept of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, UK Anthony Dickinson, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK Fred I Dretske, Dept of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, USA Nathan Emery, Sub-dept of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, UK William M Fields, Dept of Biology & Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Louis M Herman, Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory, Honolulu, USA Cecilia Heyes, Dept of Psychology, University College London, UK Susan Hurley, Dept of Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Alex Kacelnik,Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK Janet Mann, Dept of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA Ruth Garrett Millikan, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA Matthew Nudds, Dept of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK David Papineau, Dept of Philosophy, King's College London, UK Irene M Pepperberg, Dept of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA Daniel Povinelli, Cognitive Evolution Group, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA Joelle Proust, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France Duane M Rumbaugh, Great Ape Trust of Iowa, Des Moines, USA E Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Dept of Biology & Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Sara J Shettleworth, Dept of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada Kim Sterelny, Philosophy Program, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Jennifer E Sutton, Dept of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Alain J-P C Tschudin, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK Elisabetta Visalberghi, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Rome, Italy Jennifer Vonk, Cognitive Evolution Group, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA