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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823536703321

Autore

Lurz Robert W. <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

1-283-25864-1

9786613258649

0-262-29833-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

A bradford book

Disciplina

591.5/13

Soggetti

Extrasensory perception in animals

Cognition in animals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford Book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.