The essays also address questions concerning the meaning and significance of consciousness; animal intelligence, awareness and emotions; behavioural plasticity, flexibility and constraints on understanding animal minds; and the structure of explanation in the study of behaviour.
The essays also address questions concerning the meaning and significance of consciousness; animal intelligence, awareness and emotions; behavioural plasticity, flexibility and constraints on understanding animal minds; and the structure of explanation in the study of behaviour.
I. EXPLANATION AND CONFIRMATION Introduction 1. Theory and Practice in Naturalistic Studies of Behavior Prior to Ethology's Establishment as a Scientific Discipline 2. The Study of Adaptation 3. The Units of Behavior in Evolutionary Explanations 4. Inference in Social Evolution Theory: A Case Study 5. Natural History and the Superorganic in Studies of Tool Behavior 11 . METHOD ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL EXPERIMENT Introduction 6 . Neural Positivism and the Localization of Function 7. Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Animal Behavior 8. Comparative Behavior and Phylogenetic Analyses: New Wine Old Bottles 9. How the Mismatch between the Experimental Design and the Intended Hypothesis Limits Confidence in Knowledge as Illustrated by an Example from Bird-song Dialects 1 o. The Influence of Models on the Interpretation of Vigilance 11. Levels of Analysis and the Functional Significance of Helping Behavior 1 2. Use of Body Mass and Sex Ratio to Interpret the Behavioral Ecology of Richardson's Ground Squirrels II I. MORAL DIMENSIONS Introduction 1 3. Domestication Exploitation and Rights 1 4. Ethical Issues in Genetics: Cautionary Considerations 1 5. On Moderation 1 6 . Sympathy Empathy and Understanding Animal Feelings - and Feeling for Animals
I. EXPLANATION AND CONFIRMATION Introduction 1. Theory and Practice in Naturalistic Studies of Behavior Prior to Ethology's Establishment as a Scientific Discipline 2. The Study of Adaptation 3. The Units of Behavior in Evolutionary Explanations 4. Inference in Social Evolution Theory: A Case Study 5. Natural History and the Superorganic in Studies of Tool Behavior 11 . METHOD ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL EXPERIMENT Introduction 6 . Neural Positivism and the Localization of Function 7. Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Animal Behavior 8. Comparative Behavior and Phylogenetic Analyses: New Wine Old Bottles 9. How the Mismatch between the Experimental Design and the Intended Hypothesis Limits Confidence in Knowledge as Illustrated by an Example from Bird-song Dialects 1 o. The Influence of Models on the Interpretation of Vigilance 11. Levels of Analysis and the Functional Significance of Helping Behavior 1 2. Use of Body Mass and Sex Ratio to Interpret the Behavioral Ecology of Richardson's Ground Squirrels II I. MORAL DIMENSIONS Introduction 1 3. Domestication Exploitation and Rights 1 4. Ethical Issues in Genetics: Cautionary Considerations 1 5. On Moderation 1 6 . Sympathy Empathy and Understanding Animal Feelings - and Feeling for Animals
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