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Cognition, Language, and Consciousness: Integrative Levels, Vol. 2 (Includes discussion of animal communication in multiple chapters)
by Gary Greenberg, Ethel Tobach. 301 pgs.

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Preface

I: Prologue

1: "Each Animal in Its Own Psychological Setting . . ."

2: Nomans' Languages

II: Colloquium

3: Reflections on Thinking In Animals

Acknowledgment

References

4: Interspecies Communication: A Tool for Assessing Conceptual Abilities in The African Grey Parrot

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Acknowledgment

5: Chimpanzee Signing And Emergent Levels

6: Human Specificity In Language: Sociogenetic Processes in Verbal Communication

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7: Aphasia as A Communicative Disorder: Application of The Levels Concept

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8: Language with Or Without Consciousness

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9: Materialism and Reductionism In the Study of Animal Consciousness

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10: Folk-Models, Reductionism, And Emergent Patterns In Human Behavioral Evolution

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11: Human Evolution and The Comparative Psychology Of Levels

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Acknowledgments

12: Biological Implications of A Global-Workspace Theory Of Consciousness: Evidence, Theory, and Some Phylogenetic Speculations

Acknowledgments

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III: Epilogue

13: Integrative Levels in The Comparative Psychology Of Cognition, Language, And Consciousness

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Acknowledgments

14: Some Remarks on Integrative Levels

Acknowledgments

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15: Issues for Continuing Discussion of Integrative Levels

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Author Index

Subject Index
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The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience (Chap. 2 "The Versatility of Animal Communication")
by Donald R. Griffin. 138 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter 1 Expanding Horizons in Ethology

Chapter 2 the Versatility of Animal Communication

Chapter 3 is Man Language?

Chapter 4 Are Animals Aware of What They Are Doing?

Chapter 5 Objections and Their Limitations

Chapter 6 the Adaptive Value of Conscious Awareness

Chapter 7 a Possible Window on the Minds of Animals

Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusions

Bibliography

Subject Index

Author Index
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Language, Mind, and Brain (Chap. 16 "Animal Communication as Evidence of Thinking")
by Thomas W. Simon, Robert J. Scholes. 272 pgs.

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Examines facets of language, including logic & language, artificial language intelligence, animal communication, representation, intensions, & metaphor.

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Preface and Orientation

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

For the Sloan Foundation

Neoconstructivism: A Unifying Theme for the Cognitive Sciences

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1: Logic, Reasoning, and Logical Form

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2: Variable-Free Semantics with Remarks on Procedural Extensions

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3: Speaking of Imagination

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4: Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Theory

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5: Intensional Logic and Natural Language

INTRODUCTION

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6: How Far can you Trust a Linguist?

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7: Propositional and Algorithmic Semantics

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8: Inference in the Conceptual Dependency Paradigm: A Personal History

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

9: Implications of Language Studies for Human Nature

CONCLUSION

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10: Experiential Factors in Linguistics

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11: Grammar and Sequencing in Language

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12: Psycholinguistic Experiment and Linguistic Intuition

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13: Metaphor and Mental Duality

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INTRODUCTION

14: Computations and Representations

EPILOGUE

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INTRODUCTION

15: The Cognitive Sciences: A Semiotic Paradigm

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SUMMARY

16: Animal Communication as Evidence of Thinking

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17: Philosophy of Science and Recent Research on Language, Mind, and Brain

Author Index

Subject Index
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Animal Consciousness (Chap. 7 "Animal Communication")
by Daisie Radner, Michael Radner. 237 pgs.

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Any intelligent debate on the ethical treatment of animals hinges on understanding their mental processes. The idea that consciousness in animals is beyond comprehension is usually traced to the 17th-century philosopher Rene Descartes whose concept of animals as beast machines lacking consciousness influenced arguments for more than 200 years. But in reviewing Descartes' theory of mind, Daisie and Michael Radner demonstrate in Animal Consciousness that he did not hold the view so frequently attributed to him. In fact, they contend that Descartes distinguished two types of consciousness, which make it easier to discuss the conscious experiences of animals and to trace the debate into the post-Darwinian era.

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Animal Consciousness

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Introduction

Part One the Breakdown of the Beast-Machine

Introduction

1: Cartesian Consciousness

2: Descartes's Two Tests

3: Senseless Brutes

4: God and the Beast-Machine

5: A Debauchery of Reason

Part Two Science and Animal Mind: Descartes's Legacy

Introduction

6: What Happened to Consciousness?

7: Animal Communication

8: Three Fables of Animal Mindlessness

9: Making Room for Consciousness

10: Relevance to Ethics

References

Index
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Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney. 29 pgs.

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Language and Human Behavior (Discussion of animal communication begins on p. 11)
by Derek Bickerton. 178 pgs.

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Language and Human Behavior

The Jessie and John Danz Lectures

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 What Language Is

Chapter 2 Language and Evolution

Chapter 3 Language and Intelligence

Chapter 4 Language and Consciousness

Conclusion

Appendix: Samples of Protolanguage

Bibliography

Index
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Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction (Chap. 1 "Rhetoric among Social Animals")
by George A. Kennedy. 244 pgs.

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This is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication. The author explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies around the world. The second part of the book discusses rhetoric as understood and practised in early literate cultures, seeking to identify what is unique or unusual in the western tradition.

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Acknowledgments

Prologue the Comparative Study of Rhetoric

Part I Rhetoric in Societies Without Writing

Chapter 1 Rhetoric Among Social Animals

References

Chapter 2 Rhetorical Factors in the Early Development of Human Language

References

Bibliography

Chapter 3 Rhetoric in Aboriginal Australian Culture

Chapter 4 Formal Speech in Some Nonliterate Cultures

References

Bibliography

Chapter 5 North American Indian Rhetoric

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Part II Rhetoric in Ancient Literate Cultures

Chapter 6 Literacy and Rhetoric in the Ancient Near East

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Chapter 7 Rhetoric in Ancient China

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Chapter 8 Rhetoric in Ancient India

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Chapter 9 Rhetoric in Greece and Rome

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Conclusion

Index
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Conversations with Dolphins: These Engaging and Highly Intelligent Animals Play Major Roles in Language Research, in Psychology Today
by Susan Chollar, William Booth. 6 pgs.

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Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Ants, Wasps, Bees, and Termites
by Robert K. Vander Meer, Michael D. Breed, Karl E. Espelie, Mark L. Winston. 374 pgs.

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Foreword

Literature Cited

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One Introduction: Sources and Secretions

1: Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Sources and Secretions

Introduction

Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgements

References

2: The Cuticle and Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Insects: Structure, Function, and Biochemistry

2: The Cuticle and Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Insects: Structure, Function, and Biochemistry

Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments

Concluding Remarks

Part Two Nestmate Recognition in Social Insects

Introduction

3: Chemical Cues in Kin Recognition: Criteria for Identification, Experimental Approaches, and the Honey Bee as an Example

Literature Cited

4: Nestmate Recognition in Ants

5: Nest and Nestmate Discrimination in Independent-Founding Paper Wasps

5: Nest and Nestmate Discrimination in Independent-Founding Paper Wasps

Conclusions

References Cited

6: Nestmate Recognition in Termites

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Conclusion

Part Three Social Insect Releaser Pheromones

7: Pheromone Directed Behavior in Ants

Introduction

Conclusion

References Cited

8: Releaser Pheromones in Termites

Acknowledgments

Conclusion

References Cited

9: Chemical Communication in Social Wasps

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10: Exocrine Glands and Their Products in Non-Apis Bees: Chemical, Functional and Evolutionary Perspectives

10: Exocrine Glands and Their Products in Non-Apis Bees: Chemical, Functional and Evolutionary Perspectives

Conclusions

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11: Mass Action in Honey Bees: Alarm, Swarming and the Role of Releaser Pheromones

References Cited

Part Four Social Insect Primer Pheromones

Introduction

12: Primer Pheromones in Ants

Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgements

Literature Cited

13: Primer Pheromones and Possible Soldier Caste Influence on the Evolution of Sociality in Lower Termites

References Cited

Acknowledgment

14: Royal Flavors: Honey Bee Queen Pheromones

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References Cited

Contributors

Author Index

Taxonomic Index

Subject Index
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Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" among Bees
by Adrian M. Wenner, Patrick H. Wells. 402 pgs.

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Preface

Science as a Process

Strong Inference: Chamberlin's "Great Intellectual Invention"

Earlier Interest in the Possible Existence of a Bee "Language"

The Mechanism School

Die "Sprache" Der Bienen

The Importance of Locality Odors in the Recruitment of Naive Bees

11: The Social Network

A Search for Support of the Dance Language Hypothesis

Rosin (1978): Insect-Level Versus Human-Level Explanations

Our Experience in the World of Science

Excursuses

References Cited

Index
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Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin (Chap. 6 "Truth and Deception in Animal Communication" and Chap. 9 "Animal Communication and the Study of Cognition")
by Carolyn A. Ristau, Donald R. Griffin. 332 pgs.

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Preface

Reminiscences

PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1: Progress Toward a Cognitive Ethology

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2: From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Ethology

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3: How is Cognitive Ethology Possible?

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PART II: EVIDENCE FROM THE LABORATORY AND FIELD

4: Cognitive Ethology and Critical Anthropomorphism: A Snake with Two Heads and Hognose Snakes that Play Dead

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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5: Aspects of the Cognitive Ethology of an Injury-Feigning Bird, the Piping Plover

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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6: Truth and Deceptiction in Animal Communication

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7: A Communicative Approach to Animal Cognition: A Study of Conceptual Abilities of an African Grey Parrot

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

8: Do Animals Have the Option of Withholding Signals When Communication is Inappropriate? The Audience Effect

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9: Animal Communication and the Study of Cognition

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

10: Conscious Chimpanzees? A Review of Recent Literature

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11: Human Psychology and the Minds of Other Animals

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

12: Integrating Cgnitive Ethology with Cognitive Psychology

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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13: Cognitive Ethology: An Overview

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Author Index

Subject Index

Species Index
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The Psychology of Communication (Chap. 10 "Communication among Animals")
by Jon Eisenson, J. Jeffery Auer, John V. Irwin. 394 pgs.

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Preface

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Illustrations

I: The Nature, Origin, And Purposes Of Speech

1: The Nature of Speech

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2: The Oral Speech Code And Its Origin

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3: The Functions And Levels of Speech

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II: Basic Psychological Principles

4: The Nervous Mechanism And Speech

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5: Affective Behavior (emotion) And Speech

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6: The Psychology Of Language Learning

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7: How Linguistic Forms Acquire Meanings

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8: Speech and Thought

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III: The Communicative Process

9: The Communicative Process: Schema and Design

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10: Communication Among Animals

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11: Information Theory and The Psychology of Speech

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IV: Applications: The Individual

12: The Development of Speech In the Child: First Sounds to First Words

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13: Language Development In the Child

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V: Applications: Group Communication

14: Basic Psychological Factors In Group Communication

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15: Psychology Of Group Discussion

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16: Psychology Of Public Address

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17: Psychology Of Radio and Television

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18: Psychology Of Stage Fright

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VI: Personality And Speech

19: Concepts of Personality

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20: Verbal Behavior Of Not-So-Well Adjusted Personalities

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21: Personality Disturbances And Speech

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Index

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