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The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience
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

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Twentieth-Century Bestiary ("The Navigation of Birds" by Donald R. Griffin begins on p. 135, "Sonar in Bats" by Donald R. Griffin begins on p. 147, and "Sonar in Birds" by Donald R. Griffin begins on p. 156)
by Scientific American, Inc. 244 pgs.

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Introduction

Part 1 the Balance of Nature

The Spider and the Wasp

Sea Lamprey and Lake Trout

Part 2 Mating

The Courtship of Animals

The Curious Behavior of the Stickleback

The Home Life of the Swift

Part 3 the Social Insects

The Language of the Bees

The Army Ant

The Termite and the Cell

Part 4 Origin of Species

Darwin's Finches

The End of the Moas

Part 5 Physiological Engineering

The Metabolism of Hummingbirds

Shrews

The Desert Rat

Part 6 Flight and Navigation

Bird Aerodynamics

Birds as Flying Machines

The Navigation of Birds

Sonar in Birds

Part 7 Insects in the Laboratory

Metamorphosis of Insects

Hormones in the Roach

Spider Webs and Drugs

Part 8 the Proper Study of Mankind

Conditioning and the Emotions

The Yerkes Laboratories

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Language, Mind, and Brain (Chap. 16 "Animal Communication as Evidence of Thinking" by Donald R. Griffin)
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

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Thinking across Cultures (Chap. 20 "Education about Animal Minds" by Donald R. Griffin)
by Doris C. Crowell, Victor N. Kobayashi, Donald M. Topping. 506 pgs.

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An Introduction To Hawaiian Thought, Mo'Olelo

Editors' Note

Introduction

1: Thinking Across Cultures

1: Cultural Psychology-- Understanding The Riddle of Development

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2 An Information Processing Framework for the Study Of Culture and Thought

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3: Fiction as a Tool For Cross-Cultural Thinking And Teaching: A Case Study Of The Work of Ursula K. Leguin

4: The Present Past: An Examination Of Archaeological And Native American Thinking

5: A Study of Samoan Children On Eleven Cognitive Tasks

6: On the Learning And Thinking Styles Of Hawaiian Children

7 Cultural Patterns of Cognition Reflected in The Questioning Styles Of Anglo and Navajo Teachers

Acknowledgment

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Ii Language and Cognition

Ii Language and Cognition

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9 The Myth of Autonomous Text

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10 Semantic-Pragmatic Disability: A Disorder of Thought?

Acknowledgment

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11: The Structuring Of Inferential Processes In Oral Documentation

12 Language and Attitude: A Study in Arabic, English, And Japanese On The Role of Language In Cross-Cultural Thinking

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Acknowledgment

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13: Reasoning and Representation Across Cultures: A Comparison of Chinese and American Thinking

Iii Thinking: Philosophical Considerations

Iii Thinking: Philosophical Considerations

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Acknowledgment

15: Thinking Vs. Thought: Strategies For Conceptual Creativity

16 Structural Relations In Thought Sequences

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Acknowledgment

Acknowledgement

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18 Cultural Relativism And The Virtue of Tolerance

Iv Animal Cognition

Iv Animal Cognition

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20 Education About Animal Minds

21 Animal Thinking: The Development and Status Of Research and Theory On Animal Cognition

Acknowledgments

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22: Thinking Across Cultures-- Humans and Bees

V Empirical Studies Of Thinking

V Empirical Studies Of Thinking

Acknowledgments

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24: Predecision Processes In Chess: Masters, Experts, And Novices

Acknowledgments

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25: How Different Is Problem Solving in The Social Domain?

26 The Influence Of Occupational Experience In Spatial Development Of Children in a Rural Indian Setting

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Vi Infant Cognition

27 Thoughts on Thinking In The Thoughtless Infant

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28: The Transfer Dilemma: From Cross-Modal Perception To Metaphor

29 What Develops In Infant Cognitive Development?

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30 Electrophysiological Investigation of Cognition In Infants

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Vii The Teaching of Thinking

3 Making the Horse Drink: An "Engineering" Ideology Underlying U.S. Education

32 An Assessment of The Thinking Skills Movement: Miles to Go Before We Sleep: A Symposium

33: Teaching Thinking Strategies: An Attempt To Promote Generalization

34: Making Good Thinking Stick: The Role of Metacognition, Extended Practice, and Teacher Modeling in the Teaching Of Thinking

35: Thinking About Time: Helping Children Gain A Sense of History

36: Guided Design: Critical Thinking And Proficiency in the University Foreign Language Classroom

37 Promoting Thinking in Physics And Algebra: Incorporating Cognitive Research Findings Into Software Design

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38 Teaching Thinking In Subject-Specific Contexts To Disadvantaged South African Communities

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39 Computers, Cognition, And Language: A Cross-Cultural Liaison

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Foundations of Psychology (Chap. 17 "Topographical Orientation" by Donald R. Griffin)
by Edwin Garrigues Boring, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Harry Porter Weld. 634 pgs.

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C O N T R I B U T O R S

P R E F a C E

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Chapter 1: The Nature of Psychology

Chapter: The Response Mechanism

Chapter 3: Response

Chapter 4: Growth and Development

Chapter 5: Feeling and Emotion

C H a P T E R: Motivation

Chapter 7: Learning

Chapter 8: Retention and Transfer of Learning

Chapter 9: Recollecting, Imagining and Thinking

Chapter 10: Perception

Chapter 11: Sensation and Psychological Measurement

Chapter 12: Color

Chapter 13: Visual Space Perception

Chapter 14: Hearing

Chapter 15: Taste and Smell

Chapter 16: Somesthesis

Chapter 17: Topographical Orientation

Chapter 18: Individual Differences

Chapter 19: Heredity and Environment

Chapter 20: Efficiency

Chapter 21: Personality

Chapter 22: Personal Adjustment

Chapter 23: Vocational Selection

Chapter 24: Attitudes and Opinions

Chapter 25: Social Relations of the Individual

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Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin
by Carolyn A. Ristau. 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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