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Mindreading animals : the debate over what animals know about other minds / Robert W. Lurz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lurz, Robert W., 1968-
- Series:
- A bradford book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extrasensory perception in animals.
- Cognition in animals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Lurz presents a new approach to understanding what mindreading in animals might be, offering a bottom-up model of mental state attribution that is built upon cognitive abilities that animals are known to possess rather than on a preconceived view of the mind applicable to mindreading abilities in humans.
- Contents:
- Mindreading in animals : its importance and history
- The logical problem in animal mindreading research
- Solving the logical problem for perceptual state attribution
- Solving the logical problem for belief attribution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "A Bradford Book."
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25864-1
- 9786613258649
- 0-262-29833-3
- OCLC:
- 868029702
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