Rational Animal

In Search of Complex Cognition in Non-Human Animals

AvLudwig Huber

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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This brings up the practical relevance: we are not only surrounded by animals, we live with animals, we live from animals.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:740 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031608025
Originaltitel:Das rationale Tier

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Ludwig Huber is a Professor of Comparative Cognition, as well as of the Natural Science Foundations of Animal Ethics and Human-Animal Interactions at the Messerli Research Institute, an interdisciplinary institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, the Medical University of Vienna, and the University of Vienna. His research focuses on animal cognition in a broad, comparative manner, including such diverse species as humans, marmosets, dogs, kea, cockatoos, pigeons, tortoises, lizards, poison frogs and archer fish. He has (co-)authored ca. 200 research articles, 40 book chapters and 3 books about these topics (including, as co-editor, The Evolution of Cognition, MIT Press, 2000).

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1. Historical Outline of the Basic Questions of Animal Cognition.- 2. Can Animals be Rational?.- 3. Tool use.- 4. Causal Understanding.- 5. Looking into the Future.- 6. Episodic Memory.- 7. Metacognition.- 8. Mind Reading.- 9. Do Animals Have Language?.- 10. Do Animals Have Consciousness?.- 11. How Do Animals Think? A Seven-point Summary.- . Epiligue.- . References.- .