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Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not “One Cognition”
Using the comparative approach, researchers draw inferences about the evolution of cognition. Psychologists have postulated several hypotheses to explain why certain species are cognitively more flexible than others, and these hypotheses assume that ...
Juliane Bräuer +4 more
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HEALINGA Brief Analysis on the Artistic Features and Functions of Animal Characters in Healing Animation [PDF]
As an art type with a typical missionary function, healing animation has become an essential creative type with its unique spiritual soothing feature. The healing animation that soothes our minds and gives us persistent comfort can leave audiences in a ...
Gong Yizhao
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Many philosophers think that human animals are the only normative creatures. In this paper, I will not provide reasons against such a claim, but I will engage in a related task: delineating and comparing two deflationary accounts of what non-human animal
Laura Danón
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Animal cognition research aims to understand animal minds by using a diverse range of methods across an equally diverse range of species. Throughout its history, the field has sought to mitigate various biases that occur when studying animal minds, from ...
Benjamin G Farrar +2 more
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The cognitive architecture of uncertainty. [PDF]
The authors consider theory in the animal-metacognition literature. Theoretical interpretation was long dominated by associative interpretations, a conservative approach well illustrated in the 2009 special issue of animal metacognition in Comparative ...
J. David Smith +2 more
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Animal Welfare Underenforcement as a Rule of Law Problem
Many have decried the state’s underenforcement of animal welfare legislation because of the direct negative effects on animal interests. This article will advance the argument that such underenforcement has a much deeper societal effect because it ...
M. B. Rodriguez Ferrere
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Sentientism is the most influential position in animal ethics. It presents sentience as decisive for integrating animals in ethics. Nevertheless, its significance for animal ethical argumentation is not quite clear.
H. Baranzke, H.W. Ingensiep
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Morgan's canon, Garner's phonograph, and the evolutionary origins of language and reason [PDF]
`Morgan's canon' is a rule for making inferences from animal behaviour about animal minds, proposed in 1892 by the Bristol geologist and zoologist C. Lloyd Morgan, and celebrated for promoting scepticism about the reasoning powers of animals.
Radick, G.
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Towards AI Welfare Science and Policies
In light of fast progress in the field of AI there is an urgent demand for AI policies. Bostrom et al., provide “a set of policy desiderata”, out of which this article attempts to contribute to the “interests of digital minds&rdquo ...
Soenke Ziesche, Roman Yampolskiy
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Knowing without knowing : implicit cognition and the minds of infants and animals [PDF]
The main aim of this paper is to highlight the need to address the conceptual problem of “implicit knowledge” or “implicit cognition” —a notion especially important in the study of the nonverbal minds of animals and infants.
Ball, Derek Nelson +3 more
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