Parsimony and models of animal minds

The Philosophy of Animal Minds

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 237-257

  Sober, Elliott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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EID: 84863349110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511819001.014     Document Type: Chapter

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1. Morgan (1903) restates the canon and adds: "To this, however, it should be added, lest the range of the principle be misunderstood, that the canon by no means excludes the interpretation of a particular activity in terms of the higher processes, if we already have independent evidence of the occurrence of these higher processes in the animal under observation" (p. 59).
2. Jensen et al. (2006) note that "these individuals were also the only two individuals who begged from, or harassed, the recipients"
3. Lurz (2009) proposes such a unified first-order account and describes as an alternative experimental protocol for distinguishing second-order accounts from their complementary first-order rivals.