£72.00

Oxford University Press Rational Animals?

Name: Rational Animals?
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 72.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Animal

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£72 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 52 days · 52 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 52 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £72 (52 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £72 - £72

Price levels: 1 different prices over 52 days

Description

To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science today - how closely does mental processing in animals resemble mental processing in humans. It addresses the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational, that is, whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes. It does this with attention to three key questions, which recur throughout the book and which have both empirical and philosophical aspects: What kinds of behavioural tasks can animals successfully perform? What if any mental processes must be postulated to explain their performance at these tasks? What properties must processes have to count as rational? The book is distinctive in pursuing these questions not only in relation to our closest relatives, the primates, whose intelligence usually gets the most attention, but also in relation to birds and dolphins, where striking results are also being obtained. Some chapters focus on a particular species. They describe some of the extraordinary and complex behaviour of these species - using tools in novel ways to solve foraging problems, for example, or behaving in novel ways to solve complex social problems - and ask whether such behaviour should be explained in rational or merely mechanistic terms. Other chapters address more theoretical issues and ask, for example, what it means for behaviour to be rational, and whether rationality can be understood in the absence of language. The book includes many of the world's leading figures doing empirical work on rationality in primates, dolphins, and birds, as well as distinguished philosophers of mind and science. The book includes an editors' introduction which summarises the philosophical and empirical work presented, and draws together the issues discussed by the contributo

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0198528272
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Biological Sciences > Evolution > Animal
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 January 2006
Listed Since: 12 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Rational Animals?

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction

Who Is Rational?: Studies of individual Differences in Reasoning

Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds

Routledge - Aspects of Rationality - Psychology Book

The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources

The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition

Cognitive Ethology: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin (Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series)

Aspects of Rationality: Reflections on What It Means To Be Rational and Whether We Are

Evolution of the Primate Brain (Progress in Brain Research): From Neuron to Behavior: Volume 195 (Progress in Brain Research, Volume 195)

Rationality and Social Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Robyn Mason Dawes (Modern Pioneers in Psychological Science: An APS-Psychology Press Series)

The Cunning of Reason

Routledge Learning from Animals? - Human Uniqueness Book

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds

Primatology: Theories, Methods and Research (Animal Science, Issues and Professions)

Primate Cognition

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds

Handbook of Rationality

Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

Animal Cognition: Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology

Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)

Springer - Evolution of Social Communication in Primates Book

Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)

The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach: 1 (Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, 1)

Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief