BioConcepts

cognitive ethologykognitive Ethologie (ger.)

• Behavioural study of animals with mental experiences.  
  category ethology

  1976

  It will be of the greatest interest and significance if it should become increasingly likely that animals have mental experiences, however few in number and simple in nature they turn out to be. This important step might then lead us into effective investigation of what may properly be called cognitive ethology.

  Griffin, D.R. (1976). The Question of Animal Awareness. Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience: 102.

  1978

  Prospects for a cognitive ethology

  Griffin, D.R. (1978). Prospects for a cognitive ethology. Behav. Brain Sci. 1, 527-38.

  1983

  Intentional systems in cognitive ethology

  Dennett, D.C. (1983). Intentional systems in cognitive ethology: the “Panglossian paradigm” defended. Behav. Brain. Sci. 6, 343-90;

  1997

  The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology

  Allen, C. & Bekoff, M. (1997). Species of Mind. The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology.

  1998

  On the proper definition of cognitive ethology

  Kamil, A. (1998). On the proper definition of cognitive ethology. In: Balda, R., Pepperberg, I.M. & Kamil, A.C. (eds.). Nature. The Convergence of Psychology and Biology in Laboratory and Field, 1-28.

  2004

  [cognitive ethologist

  Allen, C. (2004). Is anyone a cognitive ethologist? Biol. Philos. 19, 589-607.]