Learning from Animals? (eBook, ePUB)

Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness
Redaktion: Röska-Hardy, Louise S.; Neumann-Held, Eva M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Human language, cognition, and culture are unique; they are unparalleled in the animal kingdom. The claim that we can learn what makes us human by studying other animal species provokes vigorous reactions and many deny that comparative research can shed any light on the origins and character of human distinctive capacities. However, Learning from Animals? presents empirical research and an analysis of comparative approaches for an understanding of human uniqueness, arguing that we cannot know what capacities are uniquely human until we learn what other species can do.

This interdisciplinary volume explores the prospects and problems of comparative approaches for understanding modern humans' abilities by presenting: (1) the latest findings and theoretical approaches in primatology, comparative psychology, linguistics, and philosophy; (2) methodological reflections on the prospects and challenges of understanding human capacities through comparative research strategies; and (3) discussions of conceptual and ethical issues.

This is the first book to address the issues raised by comparative research from such a diverse perspective. It will therefore be of great interest to students, researchers, and professionals in comparative psychology, linguistics, primatology, biology, and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135430238
• Artikelnr.: 38262690

Autorenporträt

Louise S. Röska-Hardy studied philosophy and linguistics, before taking her doctorate in philosophy, sociology, and linguistics in Frankfurt am Main. She has taught philosophy and linguistics at universities in Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. Eva M. Neumann-Held studied biology and philosophy. As researcher and lecturer she participated in numerous biophilosophical projects, among them "Genome and Organisms: Philosophical Interpretations of Developmental Biology". Currently she lectures in philosophy and biophilosophy at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany. Röska-Hardy and Neumann-Held are among the founders of the interdisciplinary research group "What are human beings? Culture-Language-Nature" (University of Dortmund and KWI).

Inhaltsangabe

J. Call
Foreword. Acknowledgements. L.S. Röska-Hardy
Introduction - Issues and Themes in Comparative Studies: Language
Cognition
and Culture. Part 1. Language. W. T. Fitch
Prolegomena to a Science of Biolinguistics. W. Wildgen
Sketch of an Evolutionary Grammar Based on Comparative Biolinguistics. A. Meguerditchian
J. Vauclair
Vocal and Gestural Communication in Nonhuman Primates and the Question of the Origin of Language. Part 2. Cognition. K.A. Bard
D.A. Leavens
Socioemotional Factors in the Development of Joint Attention in Human and Ape Infants. H. Rakoczy
Collective Intentionality and the Roots of Human Societal Life. J.-M. Burkart
Socio-cognitive Abilities and Cooperative Breeding. Z. Virányi
F. Range
L. Huber
Attentiveness Toward Others and Social Learning in Domestic Dogs. I. Brinck
From Similarity to Uniqueness: Method and Theory in Comparative Psychology. Part 3. Culture. C.A. Caldwell
Experimental Approaches to the Study of Culture in Primates. W. C. McGrew
How the Chimpanzee Stole Culture
or Lessons Learned from Labours in Cultural Primatology. D. Jamieson
Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality. M. Kettner
Apes and Human Dignity. L.S. Röska-Hardy
Postscript: Human Uniqueness in a Comparative Perspective.