Anthropomorphism, anecdotes, and animals

Bibliographic Collection: 
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Mitchell, Robert W; Thompson, Nicholas S; Miles, H. Lyn
Year of Publication: 1997
Number of Pages: xx, 518 p
Publisher: State University of New York Press
City: Albany, N.Y
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 0791431258 (hardcover :
Keywords: Animal behavior, Animal psychology, Anthropomorphism
Abstract:

Foreword / Frans B. M. de Waal -- 1. Taking Anthropomorphism and Anecdotes Seriously / Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson and H. Lyn Miles -- 2. Dogs, Darwinism, and English Sensibilities / Elizabeth Knoll -- 3. Why Anthropomorphism Is Not Metaphor: Crossing Concepts and Cultures in Animal Behavior Studies / Pamela J. Asquith -- 4. Amorphism, Mechanomorphism, and Anthropomorphism / Emanuela Cenami Spada -- 5. Anthropomorphism: A Definition and a Theory / Stewart Elliott Guthrie -- 6. Why Anthropomorhize? Folk Psychology and Other Stories / Linnda R. Caporael and Cecilia M. Heyes -- 7. Anthropomorphism and the Evolution of Social Intelligence: A Comparative Approach / Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., Lori Marino and Timothy J. Eddy -- 8. Panmorphism / Daniel J. Povinelli -- 9. Anthropomorphism and Scientific Evidence for Animal Mental States / Hugh Lehman -- 10. Anthropomorphism in Mother-Infant Interaction: Cultural Imperative or Scientific Acumen? / Robert L. Russell11. Anecdote, Anthropomorphism, and Animal Behavior / Bernard E. Rollin -- 12. What's the Use of Anecdotes? Distinguishing Psychological Mechanisms in Primate Tactical Deception / Richard W. Byrne -- 13. Anthropomorphic Anecdotalism As Method / Robert W. Mitchell -- 14. A Pragmatic Approach to the Inference of Animal Mind / Paul S. Silverman -- 15. Varieties of Purposive Behavior / Ruth Garrett Millikan -- 16. Expressions of Mind in Animal Behavior / Colin Beer -- 17. Self-Awareness, with Specific References to Coleoid Cephalopods / Martin H. Moynihan -- 18. Silent Partners? Observations on Some Systematic Relations among Observer Perspective, Theory, and Behavior / Duane Quiatt -- 19. Common Sense and the Mental Lives of Animals: An Empirical Approach / Harold A. Herzog and Shelley Galvin -- 20. Amending Tinbergen: A Fifth Aim for Ethology / Gordon M. Burghardt -- 21. A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Nonhuman Animals / Kenneth J. Shapiro22. Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Mirrors / Karyl B. Swartz and Sian Evans -- 23. Cognitive Ethology: Slayers, Skeptics, and Proponents / Marc Bekoff and Colin Allen -- 24. Animal Cognition Versus Animal Thinking: The Anthropomorphic Error / Hank Davis -- 25. Anthropomorphism Is the Null Hypothesis and Recapitulationism Is the Bogeyman in Comparative Developmental Evolutionary Studies / Sue Taylor Parker -- 26. Anthropocentrism and the Study of Animal Language / Judith Kiriazis and Con N. Slobodchikoff -- 27. Pinnipeds, Porpoises, and Parsimony: Animal Language Research Viewed from a Bottom-up Perspective / Ronald J. Schusterman and Robert C. Gisiner -- 28. Anthropomorphism, Apes, and Language / H. Lyn Miles -- 29. Anthropomorphism and Anecdotes: A Guide for the Perplexed / Robert W. Mitchell

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edited by Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, and H. Lyn Milesill. ; 24 cm

Label: 1996