List of Illustrations
Foreword
Frans B. M. de Waal
Acknowledgments
PART I. ATTITUDES, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
1. Taking Anthropomorphism and Anecdotes Seriously
Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, and H. Lyn Miles
2. Dogs, Darwinism, and English Sensibilities
Elizabeth Knoll
3. Why Anthropomorphism Is Not Metaphor: Crossing Concepts and Cultures in Animal Behavior Studies
Pamela J. Asquith
PART II. THE NATURE OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM
4. Amorphism, Mechanomorphism, and Anthropomorphism
Emanuela Cenami Spada
5. Anthropomorphism: A Definition and a Theory
Stewart Elliott Guthrie
6. Why Anthropomorphize? Folk Psychology and Other Stories
Linnda R. Caporael and Cecilia M. Heyes
PART III. ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND MENTAL STATE ATTRIBUTION
7. Anthropomorphism and the Evolution of Social Intelligence: A Comparative Approach
Gordon G. Gallup Jr., Lori Marino, and Timothy J. Eddy
8. Panmorphism
Daniel J. Povinelli
9. Anthropomorphism and Scientific Evidence for Animal Mental States
Hugh Lehman
10. Anthropomorphism in Mother-Infant Interaction: Cultural Imperative or Scientific Acumen?
Robert L. Russell
PART IV. ANECTODES AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM
11. Anecdote, Anthropomorphism, and Animal Behavior
Bernard E. Rollin
12. What's the Use of Anecdotes? Distinguishing Psychological Mechanisms in Primate Tactical Deception
Richard W. Byrne
13. Anthropomorphic Anecdotalism As Method
Robert W. Mitchell
14. A Pragmatic Approach to the Inference of Animal Mind
Paul S. Silverman
PART V. INTENTIONALITY
15. Varieties of Purposive Behavior
Ruth Garrett Millikan
16. Expressions of Mind in Animal Behavior
Colin Beer
PART VI. CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
17. Self-Awareness, with Specific References to Coleoid Cephalopods
Martin H. Moynihan
18. Silent Partners? Observations on Some Systematic Relations among Observer Perspective, Theory, and Behavior
Duane Quiatt
19. Common Sense and the Mental Lives of Animals: An Empirical Approach
Harold A. Herzog and Shelley Galvin
20. Amending Tinbergen: A Fifth Aim for Ethology
Gordon M. Burghardt
21. A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Nonhuman Animals
Kenneth J. Shapiro
22. Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Mirrors
Karyl B. Swartz and Siân Evans
PART VII. COGNITION
23. Cognitive Ethology: Slayers, Skeptics, and Proponenets
Marc Bekoff and Colin Allen
24. Animal Cognition Versus Animal Thinking: The Anthropomorphic Error
Hank Davis
25. Anthropomorphism Is the Null Hypothesis and Recapitulationism Is the Bogeyman in Comparative Developmental Evolutionary Studies
Sue Taylor Parker
PART VIII. LANGUAGE
26. Anthropocentrism and the Study of Animal Language
Judith Kiriazis and Con N. Slobodchikoff
27. Pinnipeds, Porpoises, and Parsimony: Animal Language Research Viewed from a Bottom-up Perspective
Ronald J. Schusterman and Robert C. Gisiner
28. Anthropomorphism, Apes, and Language
H. Lyn Miles
PART IX. COMPARING PERSPECTIVES
29. Anthropomorphism and Anecdotes: A Guide for the Perplexed
Robert W. Mitchell
List of Contributors
References
Indexes