Learning from Animals? (eBook, PDF)

Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness
Redaktion: Röska-Hardy, Louise S.; Neumann-Held, Eva M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Learning from Animals? experts present empirical research, analyze issues raised by comparative approaches and debate their consequences for an understanding of human uniqueness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135430245
• Artikelnr.: 42977875

Autorenporträt

Louise S. Röska-Hardy studied philosophy and linguistics, before taking her doctorate in philosophy, sociology, and linguistics in Frankfurt am Main. She has taught philosophy and linguistics at universities in Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. Eva M. Neumann-Held studied biology and philosophy. As researcher and lecturer she participated in numerous biophilosophical projects, among them "Genome and Organisms: Philosophical Interpretations of Developmental Biology". Currently she lectures in philosophy and biophilosophy at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany. Röska-Hardy and Neumann-Held are among the founders of the interdisciplinary research group "What are human beings? Culture-Language-Nature" (University of Dortmund and KWI).

Inhaltsangabe

J. Call
Foreword. Acknowledgements. L.S. Röska-Hardy
Introduction - Issues and Themes in Comparative Studies: Language
Cognition
and Culture. Part 1. Language. W. T. Fitch
Prolegomena to a Science of Biolinguistics. W. Wildgen
Sketch of an Evolutionary Grammar Based on Comparative Biolinguistics. A. Meguerditchian
J. Vauclair
Vocal and Gestural Communication in Nonhuman Primates and the Question of the Origin of Language. Part 2. Cognition. K.A. Bard
D.A. Leavens
Socioemotional Factors in the Development of Joint Attention in Human and Ape Infants. H. Rakoczy
Collective Intentionality and the Roots of Human Societal Life. J.-M. Burkart
Socio-cognitive Abilities and Cooperative Breeding. Z. Virányi
F. Range
L. Huber
Attentiveness Toward Others and Social Learning in Domestic Dogs. I. Brinck
From Similarity to Uniqueness: Method and Theory in Comparative Psychology. Part 3. Culture. C.A. Caldwell
Experimental Approaches to the Study of Culture in Primates. W. C. McGrew
How the Chimpanzee Stole Culture
or Lessons Learned from Labours in Cultural Primatology. D. Jamieson
Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality. M. Kettner
Apes and Human Dignity. L.S. Röska-Hardy
Postscript: Human Uniqueness in a Comparative Perspective.