Mindreading animals [electronic resource] : the debate over what animals know about other minds / Robert W. Lurz.

Mindreading animals [electronic resource] : the debate over what animals know about other minds / Robert W. Lurz.

9780262298339 (electronic bk.)
9780262016056

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) : illustrations

QL785.3 .L87 2011eb

591.5/13

"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. Lurz goes on to describe an innovative series of new experimental protocols for animal mindreading research that overcome a persistent methodological problem in the field, known as the "logical problem" or "Povinelli's challenge." These protocols show in detail how various types of animals--from apes to monkeys to ravens to dogs--can be tested for perceptual state and belief attribution"--Jacket.

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