Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals

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SUNY Press (1997)
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This is the first book to evaluate the significance and usefulness of the practices of anthropomorphism and anecdotalism for understanding animals.

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0791431258   9780791431252   9781438413334   1438413335   0791431266

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Amorphism, mechanomorphism, and anthropomorphism.Emanuela Cenami Spada
Self-awareness, with specific references to coleoid cephalopods.M. H. Moynihan
Taking anthropomorphism and anecdotes seriously.  (pages 3--11)Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson & H. Lyn Miles
Dogs, Darwinism, and English Sensibilities.  (pages 12--21)Elizabeth Knoll
Why anthropomorphism is not metaphor: Crossing concepts and cultures in animal behavior studies.  (pages 22--34)Pamela J. Asquith
Anthropomorphism: a definition and a theory.  (pages 50--58)Stewart E. Guthrie
Why anthropomorphize? Folk psychology and other stories.  (pages 59--73)Linnda R. Caporael & Cecilia M. Heyes
Panmorphism.  (pages 92--103)Daniel J. Povinelli
Anthropomorphism in Mother-Infant Interaction: Cultural Imperative or Scientific Acumen?  (pages 116--22)Robert L. Russell
Anecdote, anthropomorphism, and animal behavior.  (pages 125--33)Bernard E. Rollin
What's the use of anecdotes? Attempts to distinguish psychological mechanisms in primate tactical deception.  (pages 134--150)Richard W. Byrne
Anthropomorphic anecdotalism as method.  (pages 151--169)Robert W. Mitchell
A Pragmatic Approach to the Inference of Animal Mind.  (pages 170--88)Paul Silverman
Varieties of purposive behavior.  (pages 189--197)R. G. Millikan
Expressions of mind in animal behavior.  (pages 198--209)Colin Beer
Silent partners? Observations on some systematic relations among observer perspective, theory, and behavior.  (pages 220--236)Duane Quiatt
Anthropomorphism, common sense, and animal awareness.  (pages 237--53)H. A. Herzog & S. Galvin
Common sense and the mental lives of animals: An empirical approach.  (pages 237--253)Harold A. Herzog & Shelley Galvin
A phenomenological approach to the study of nonhuman animals.  (pages 277--296)Kenneth Shapiro
Anthropomorphism, anecdotes, and mirrors.  (pages 296--306)Karyl B. Swartz & Sian Evans
Cognitive ethology: Slayers, skeptics, and proponents.  (pages 313--334)Marc Bekoff & Colin Allen
Anthropomorphism and the study of animal language.  (pages 365--369)J. Kiriazis & C. Slobodchikoff
Pinnipeds, porpoises and parsimony: Animal language research viewed from a bottom-up perspective.  (pages 370--382)Ronald J. Schusterman & R. Gisiner
Anthropomorphism, apes, and language.  (pages 383--404)H. Lyn Miles
Anthropomorphism and anecdotes: a guide for the perplexed.  (pages 407--427)Robert W. Mitchell

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