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Author Lurz, Robert W., 1968-

Title Mindreading animals : the debate over what animals know about other minds / Robert W. Lurz
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Series A bradford book
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
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
Analysis PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
Notes "A Bradford Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Extrasensory perception in animals.
Cognition in animals.
Parapsychology.
Cognition.
Animals
Parapsychology
Cognition
cognition.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
Parapsychology
Cognition
Cognition in animals
Extrasensory perception in animals
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011001933
ISBN 9780262298339
0262298333
1283258641
9781283258647