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Mental content and evolutionary explanation

✍ Scribed by Colin Allen

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
811 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
0169-3867

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✦ Synopsis

Cognitive ethology is the comparative study of animal cognition from an evolutionary perspective. As a sub-discipline of biology it shares interest in questions concerning the immediate causes and development of behavior. As a part of ethology it is also concerned with questions about the function and evolution of behavior. I examine some recent work in cognitive ethology, and I argue that the notions of mental content and representation are important to enable researchers to answer questions and state generalizations about the function and evolution of behavior.

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