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Rational Animals? » (New Edition)

Authors: Susan Hurley (Editor), Matthew Nudds
ISBN-13: 9780198528272, ISBN-10: 0198528272
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: New Edition

1	The questions of animal rationality : theory and evidence	1
2	Meanings of rationality	87
3	Minimal rationality	107
4	Styles of rationality	117
5	Animal reasoning and proto-logic	127
6	Making sense of animals	139
7	Transitive inference in animals : reasoning or conditioned associations?	175
8	Rational or associative? : imitation in Japanese quail	187
9	The rationality of animal memory : complex caching strategies of western scrub jays	197
10	Descartes' two errors : reason and reflection in the great apes	219
11	Do animals know what they know?	235
12	Rationality and metacognition in non-human animals	247
13	Rationality, decentring, and the evidence for pretence in non-human animals	275
14	Folk logic and animal rationality	293
15	Rationality in Capuchin monkey's feeding behaviour?	313
16	Social cognition in the wild : Machiavellian dolphins?	329
17	Do chimpanzees know what others see - or only what they are looking at?	371
18	We don't need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee's mind	385
19	Belief attribution tasks with dolphins : what social minds can reveal about animal rationality	413
20	Intelligence and rational behaviour in the bottlenosed dolphin	439
21	Intelligence and rationality in parrots	469
22	The impact of symbolic representations on chimpanzee cognition	489
23	Language as a window on rationality	513