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Beer, C.G. |
Title |
Varying Views of Animal and Human Cognition |
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Year |
1998 |
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Animal Cognition in Nature |
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435-456 |
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Summary In this chapter I want to stand back from the splendid empirical work on animal cognitive capacities that is the focus of this book, and look at the broader context of cognitive concerns within which the work can be viewed. Indeed even the term `cognitive ethology' currently connotes and denotes more than is represented here, as other collections of articles, such as and , exemplify. I include the current descendants of behavioristic learning theory, evolutionary epistemology, evolutionary psychology and the recent comparative turn that has been taken in cognitive science. These several approaches, despite their considerable overlap, often appear independent and even ignorant of one another. Like the proverbial blind men feeling the hide of an elephant, they touch hands from time to time, yet collectively have only a piecemeal and distributed understanding of the shape of the whole. Although each approach may indeed need the space to work out its own conceptual and methodological preoccupations without confounding interference from other views, a utopian spirit envisages an ultimate coming together, a more comprehensive realization of the synthetic approach to animal cognition that is this book's theme. |
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Academic Press |
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London |
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Russell P. Balda; Irene M. Pepperberg; Alan C. Kamil |
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9780120770304 |
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Equine Behaviour @ team @ |
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2915 |
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Author |
Kamil, A.C. |
Title |
On the Proper Definition of Cognitive Ethology |
Type |
Book Chapter |
Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Animal Cognition in Nature |
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1-28 |
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Summary The last 20-30 years have seen two `scientific revolutions' in the study of animal behavior: the cognitive revolution that originated in psychology, and the Darwinian, behavioral ecology revolution that originated in biology. Among psychologists, the cognitive revolution has had enormous impact. Similarly, among biologists, the Darwinian revolution has had enormous impact. The major theme of this chapter is that these two scientific research programs need to be combined into a single approach, simultaneously cognitive and Darwinian, and that this single approach is most appropriately called cognitive ethology. |
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Academic Press |
Place of Publication |
London |
Editor |
Russell P. Balda; Irene M. Pepperberg; Alan C. Kamil |
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9780120770304 |
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Equine Behaviour @ team @ |
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4202 |
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