Mindreading animals : the debate over what animals know about other minds

• Tác giả: Robert W Lurz
• ISBN-10: 0262298333
• ISBN-10: 1283258641
• ISBN-13: 978-0262298339
• ISBN-13: 978-1283258647
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 591.513 +Intelligence
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 252594
• Chủ đề: 1. Cognition in animals; 2. Extrasensory perception in animals

Tóm tắt

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.