The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

'A joy to read... mind-expanding'Book of the Week, Guardian'A bold and brave paean to our
planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom'Telegraph'An impressive exploration and dazzling insight …

Are animals capable of empathy, problem-solving, or even self-recognition? Much research
is dedicated to answering these questions and yet few studies have considered how …

Philosophical attention to animals can be found in a wide range of texts throughout the
history of philosophy, including discussions of animal classification in Aristotle and Ibn Bâjja …

Donald Griffin co-discovered bat sonar and founded the field of echolocation. He studied
bird migration and founded Cognitive Ethology, the study of animal awareness and mental …

Given that empathy allows people to form and maintain satisfying social relationships with
other subjects, it is no surprise that this is one of the most studied phenomena in the area of …

" A Better Ape explores the evolution of the moral mind from our ancestors with
chimpanzees, through the origins of our genus and our species, to the development of …

Comparative psychology, the multidisciplinary study of animal behavior and psychology,
confronts the challenge of how to study animals we find cute and easy to anthropomorphize …

Modern psychology has, to all intents and purposes, become synonymous with cognitive
psychology, with an emphasis on the idea that the brain is a form of computer, whose job is …

Behavioural flexibility is often treated as the gold standard of evidence for more
sophisticated or complex forms of animal cognition, such as planning, metacognition and …