The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds

540 Pages·2017·6.53 MB·English

by  Kristin Andrews

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF
PHILOSOPHY OF ANIMAL MINDS
While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades
the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major topic in philosophy. The Routledge Handbook
of Philosophy of Animal Minds is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and
debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising nearly fifty
chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into eight parts:
• Mental representation
• Reasoning and metacognition
• Consciousness
• Mindreading
• Communication
• Social cognition and culture
• Association, simplicity, and modeling
• Ethics.
Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: whether
and how animals represent and reason about the world; how animal cognition differs from
human cognition; whether animals are conscious; whether animals represent their own mental
states or those of others; how animals communicate; the extent to which animals have cultures;
how to choose among competing models and explanations of animal behavior; and whether
animals are moral agents and/or moral patients.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds is essential reading for students and
researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, ethics and related disciplines such
as ethology, biology, psychology, linguistics and anthropology.
Kristin Andrews is York Research Chair in Animal Minds in the Department of Philosophy
at York University in Toronto, Canada, and is the author of two books: Do Apes Read Minds?
Toward a New Folk Psychology (2012) and The Animal Mind (Routledge 2015).
Jacob Beck is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and member of the Centre for Vision
Research at York University in Toronto, Canada.
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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF PHILOSOPHY OF
ANIMAL MINDS
Edited by
Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck
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Names: Andrews, Kristin, 1971– editor. | Beck, Jacob, editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of philosophy of animal minds / edited by
Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck.
Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge
handbooks in philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017003315 | ISBN 9781138822887 (hardback : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781315742250 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Animal psychology. | Animal psychology—Philosophy. |
Animal intelligence.
Classification: LCC QL785 .R76 2017 | DDC 591.5—dc23
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CONTENTS
Notes on contributors x
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1
Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck
PART I
Mental representation 11
1 Arthropod intentionality? 13
Andrew Knoll and Georges Rey
2 Visual imagery in the thought of monkeys and apes 25
Christopher Gauker
3 Maps in the head? 34
Michael Rescorla
4 Do nonhuman animals have a language of thought? 46
Jacob Beck
5 Animal minds in time: the question of episodic memory 56
Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack
6 Novel colours in animal perception 65
Mohan Matthen
v
Contents
7 Color manipulation and comparative color: they’re not
all compatible 76
Derek H. Brown
PART II
Reasoning and metacognition 87
8 Animal rationality and belief 89
Hans-Johann Glock
9 Instrumental reasoning in nonhuman animals 100
Elisabeth Camp and Eli Shupe
10 A different kind of mind? 109
Matthew Boyle
11 Can nonlinguistic animals think about thinking? 119
José Luis Bermúdez
12 On psychological explanations and self-concepts (in some animals) 131
Eric Saidel
13 Nonhuman metacognition 142
Joëlle Proust
PART III
Consciousness 155
14 So that’s what it’s like! 157
Sean Allen-Hermanson
15 Do fish have feelings? 169
Michael Tye
16 The unpleasantness of pain for nonhuman animals 176
Adam Shriver
17 Attention, working memory, and animal consciousness 185
Jesse Prinz
18 Animal consciousness and higher-order thoughts 196
Rocco J. Gennaro
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Contents
19 Minds and bodies in animal evolution 206
Michael Trestman
20 The evolution of consciousness in phylogenetic context 216
Peter Godfrey-Smith
PART IV
Mindreading 227
21 Animal mindreading: the problem and how it can be solved 229
Robert Lurz
22 What apes know about seeing 238
Marta Halina
23 Using causal models to think about mindreading 247
Hayley Clatterbuck
24 Do chimpanzees reason about belief? 258
Kristin Andrews
25 Tracking and representing others’ mental states 269
Stephen A. Butterfill
26 From false beliefs to true interactions: are chimpanzees socially enactive? 280
Sarah Vincent and Shaun Gallagher
PART V
Communication 289
27 Pragmatic interpretation and signaler-receiver asymmetries in animal
communication 291
Dorit Bar-On and Richard Moore
28 Communicative intentions, expressive communication, and origins of
meaning 301
Dorit Bar-On
29 How much mentality is needed for meaning? 313
Mitchell S. Green
30 The content of animal signals 324
Ulrich Stegmann
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Contents
31 Intentionality and flexibility in animal communication 333
Christine Sievers, Markus Wild, and Thibaud Gruber
PART VI
Social cognition and culture 343
32 What is animal culture? 345
Grant Ramsey
33 Varieties of culture 354
Grant Goodrich
34 Animal traditions: what they are, and why they matter 362
Rachael L. Brown
35 Primates are touched by your concern: touch, emotion, and social
cognition in chimpanzees 372
Maria Botero
36 Do chimpanzees conform to social norms? 381
Laura Schlingloff and Richard Moore
37 Kinds of collective behavior and the possibility of group minds 390
Bryce Huebner
PART VII
Association, simplicity, and modeling 399
38 Associative learning 401
Colin Allen
39 Understanding associative and cognitive explanations in comparative
psychology 409
Cameron Buckner
40 A new view of association and associative models 419
Mike Dacey
41 Simplicity and cognitive models: avoiding old mistakes in new
experimental contexts 427
Irina Mikhalevich
viii
Contents
42 Against Morgan’s Canon 437
Simon Fitzpatrick
43 A bridge too far? Inference and extrapolation from model organisms
in neuroscience 448
David Michael Kaplan
PART VIII
Ethics 459
44 Animals and ethics, agents and patients 461
Dale Jamieson
45 Moral subjects 469
Mark Rowlands
46 Decisional authority and animal research subjects 475
Andrew Fenton
47 Empathy in mind 485
Lori Gruen
48 Using, owning and exploiting animals 491
Alasdair Cochrane
49 Animal mind and animal ethics 499
Bernard E. Rollin
Index 509
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