Rational Animals?

by Hurley, Susan; Nudds, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780198528272
• ISBN10: 0198528272
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book pursues these questions both theoretically and empirically. The contributors include distinguished philosophers, as well as scientists who report and reflect on their work with such impressive animals as Kanzi the bonobo, Betty the New Caledonian crow, Sheba the chimpanzee, Sweetie-Pie the scrub jay, Akeakamai the bottlenose dolphin, and Alex the African Grey parrot. Studies of different species are brought together for comparison, and philosophical arguments about rationality are brought into contact with empirical evidence of the behavioural and cognitive capacities of animals. Sections of the volume focus on various types and levels of rationality, on rational versus associative processes, on metacognition and metarepresentation, on social behaviour and cognition, on mind reading versus behaviour reading, and on behaviour and cognition in symbolic environments. An editorial introduction provides an analytical framework for the issues discussed by contributors and a comparative summary of the chapters. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
1 The questions of animal rationality: Theory and evidence	1
Susan Hurley and Matthew Nudds
Part I Types and levels of rationality
2 Meanings of rationality	87	(20)
Alex Kacelnik
3 Minimal rationality	107	(10)
Fred I. Dretske
4 Styles of rationality	117	(10)
Ruth Garrett Millikan
5 Animal reasoning and proto-logic	127	(12)
José Luis Bermúdez
6 Making sense of animals	139	(36)
Susan Hurley
Part II Rational versus associative processes
7 Transitive inference in animals: Reasoning or conditioned associations?	175	(12)
Colin Allen
8 Rational or associative? Imitation in Japanese quail	187	(10)
David Papineau and Cecilia Heyes
9 The rationality of animal memory: Complex caching strategies of western scrub jays	197
Nicola Clayton, Nathan Emery, and Anthony Dickinson
Part III Metacognition
10 Descartes' two errors: Reason and reflection in the great apes	219	(16)
Josep Call
11 Do animals know what they know?	235	(12)
Sara J. Shettleworth and Jennifer E. Sutton
12 Rationality and metacognition in non-human animals	247	(28)
Joelle Proust
13 Rationality, decentring, and the evidence for pretence in non-human animals	275	(18)
Gregory Currie
Part IV Social and cognition behaviour
14 Folk logic and animal rationality	293	(20)
Kim Sterelny
15 Rationality in capuchin monkey's feeding behaviour?	313	(16)
Elsa Addessi and Elisabetta Visalberghi
16 Social cognition in the wild: Machiavellian dolphins?	329	(42)
Richard Connor and Janet Mann
Part V Mind reading and behaviour reading
17 Do chimpanzees know what others see—or only what they are looking at?	371	(14)
Michael Tomasello and Josep Call
18 We don't need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee's mind	385	(28)
Daniel Povinelli and Jennifer Vonk
19 Belief attribution tasks with dolphins: What social minds can reveal about animal rationality	413	(26)
Alain J.-P. C. Tschudin
Part VI Behaviour and cognition in symbolic environments
20 Intelligence and rational behaviour in the bottlenosed dolphin	439	(30)
Louis M. Herman
21 Intelligence and rationality in parrots	469	(20)
Irene M. Pepperberg
22 The impact of symbolic representations on chimpanzee cognition	489	(24)
Sarah T Boysen
23 Language as a window on rationality	513	(40)
E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Duane M. Rumbaugh, and William M. Fields
Index	553