How Lloyd Morgan's canon backfired
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Senior Lecturer Alan Costall
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Article
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1993
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Lloyd Morgan's Canon is usually represented as a brave step towards mechanistic behaviourism. Morgan himself, however, was convinced that the behaviour of animals and humans could only be treated in intentionalist terms. In fact, not only the spirit but the details of his Canon have been consistentl