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To Understand a Cat: Methodology and Philosophy (Advances in Consciousness Research) by Rakover, Sam S.(Author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is To Understand a Cat: Methodology and Philosophy (Advances in Consciousness Research) about?

To understand a cat: methodology and philosophy rests on the realization that the everyday behavior of a cat (but other animals too) should be understood through a new approach, namely methodological dualism . It appeals to mechanistic explanation models and to mentalistic explanation models. It puts up the methodological idea that these models have to be combined in one theoretical structure according to the scientific game-rules. This approach shows that specific mentalistic explanations are generated from explanation models or schemes, which meet the demands of the scientific games-rules; and it proposes a new theoretical structure called the multi-explanation theory to generate particular theories, which provide us with efficient explanations for behavioral phenomena. The book delves deep into anthropomorphism, and the complex question of whether a cat has consciousness and free will, and examines the intricate relations of the mental, the computational, and the neurophysiological.(Series A) **

Who reads To Understand a Cat: Methodology and Philosophy (Advances in Consciousness Research)?

Author

Rakover, Sam S.(Author)

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Co; John Benjamins Pub.

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9789027252067

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Psychology