Book chapter
Comparative Cognition
Comparative Cognition
Oxford University Press
04/08/2009
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377804.003.0001
Abstract
Natural science has succeeded in supplanting superstition and religion as
explanations for countless worldly events—from eclipses and the
tides to infectious diseases and the circulation of the blood. What, then,
is the relevance of mentalism to the present volume, which is concerned with
the intelligence of nonhuman animals? Quite simply, mentalistic accounts of
animal behavior and cognition were proposed early in the history of
comparative psychology by none other than Charles Darwin. This book places
cognitive ethology into logical and methodological perspective and lobbies
on behalf of what may be a preferable alternative to the mentalistic
movement in behavioral science. The other scientific school, termed
comparative cognition, counts among its growing members most of the
contributors to the current volume. This introductory chapter discusses a
series of central issues in the study of cognition that separate these two
prominent approaches to the comparative study of human and animal
intelligence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Comparative Cognition
- Contributors
- Thomas R Zentall (Editor)Edward A Wasserman (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Comparative Cognition
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377804.003.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/08/2009
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070663102771
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