The Question of Animal Awareness
Author | : Donald Redfield Griffin |
Publisher | : Rockefeller Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Donald Redfield Griffin |
Publisher | : Rockefeller Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Donald Redfield Griffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Animal Behaviour |
ISBN | : 9780865760028 |
Author | : Donald Redfield Griffin |
Publisher | : Rockefeller Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Psychology |
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Author | : Jacquelyn R. Spector |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Animal behavior |
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Author | : Donald R. Griffin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022622712X |
In Animal Minds, Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are they merely living machines, incapable of conscious thoughts or emotional feelings? How can we tell? Such questions have long fascinated Griffin, who has been a pioneer at the forefront of research in animal cognition for decades, and is recognized as one of the leading behavioral ecologists of the twentieth century. With this new edition of his classic book, which he has completely revised and updated, Griffin moves beyond considerations of animal cognition to argue that scientists can and should investigate questions of animal consciousness. Using examples from studies of species ranging from chimpanzees and dolphins to birds and honeybees, he demonstrates how communication among animals can serve as a "window" into what animals think and feel, just as human speech and nonverbal communication tell us most of what we know about the thoughts and feelings of other people. Even when they don't communicate about it, animals respond with sometimes surprising versatility to new situations for which neither their genes nor their previous experiences have prepared them, and Griffin discusses what these behaviors can tell us about animal minds. He also reviews the latest research in cognitive neuroscience, which has revealed startling similarities in the neural mechanisms underlying brain functioning in both humans and other animals. Finally, in four chapters greatly expanded for this edition, Griffin considers the latest scientific research on animal consciousness, pro and con, and explores its profound philosophical and ethical implications.
Author | : Samuel P. Baron |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Carl Safina |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0805098887 |
Hailed conservationist Carl Safina examines animal personhood as told through the inspired narrative portraits of elephants, wolves, and dolphins
Author | : Peter Godfrey-Smith |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0374720185 |
"Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." —Nigel Warburton, Five Books The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant life or even architecture than anything recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom—the Metazoa—they can teach us much about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds. In his acclaimed 2016 book, Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus—the closest thing to an intelligent alien on Earth. In Metazoa, Godfrey-Smith expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution of subjective experience with the assistance of far-flung species. As he delves into what it feels like to perceive and interact with the world as other life-forms do, Godfrey-Smith shows that the appearance of the animal body well over half a billion years ago was a profound innovation that set life upon a new path. In accessible, riveting prose, he charts the ways that subsequent evolutionary developments—eyes that track, for example, and bodies that move through and manipulate the environment—shaped the subjective lives of animals. Following the evolutionary paths of a glass sponge, soft coral, banded shrimp, octopus, and fish, then moving onto land and the world of insects, birds, and primates like ourselves, Metazoa gathers their stories together in a way that bridges the gap between mind and matter, addressing one of the most vexing philosophical problems: that of consciousness. Combining vivid animal encounters with philosophical reflections and the latest news from biology, Metazoa reveals that even in our high-tech, AI-driven times, there is no understanding our minds without understanding nerves, muscles, and active bodies. The story that results is as rich and vibrant as life itself.
Author | : Robert W. Lurz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-09-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139481029 |
This volume is a collection of fourteen essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of animal minds has been a topic of interest to philosophers since the origins of philosophy, and recent years have seen significant philosophical engagement with the subject. However, there is no volume that represents the current state of play in this important and growing field. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the state of the debate. The issues which are covered include whether and to what degree animals think in a language or in iconic structures, possess concepts, are conscious, self-aware, metacognize, attribute states of mind to others, and have emotions, as well as issues pertaining to our knowledge of and the scientific standards for attributing mental states to animals.
Author | : Roger Scruton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780826494047 |
In this acclaimed book, Scruton takes the issues relating to vivisection, hunting, animal testing and BSE and places them in a wider framework of thought and feeling. Now available in paperback