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Note Revised Schedule for Winter Term

September 10

Introduction

 

September 17

Rosh Hashanah

NO CLASS

September 24

History

  • Descartes (read both)

http://www.literature.org/authors/descartes-rene/reason-discourse/chapter-05.html

 

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jel/Descartes.html

 

  • Voltaire

http://users.compaqnet.be/cn111132/Voltaire/volanima.htm

 

  • Hume

http://www.bartleby.com/37/3/13.html

 

 

October 1

Other Minds

  • Darwin

“The Descent of Man”

Chapters 3 and 4

http://www.book-worm.org/darwin-charles/the-descent-of-man/chapter-03.html

 

  • Allen “Animal Consciousness”

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/

October 8

Other Minds

  • Davidson “Rational Animals”
  • Stich “Do Animals Have Beliefs?”

 

October 15

Other Minds

  • Smith “On Animal Beliefs”
  • Jamieson “Cognitive Ethology at the End of Neuroscience”

October 22

Language

  • Chomsky “Human language and other semiotic systems”
  • Fouts et. al. “Chimpanzee Signing”

October 29

Language

  • Savage-Rumbaugh & Brakke “Animal language: Methodological and interpretative issues”
  • Tomasello and Zuberbuhler “Primate Vocal and Gestural Communication”

November 5

Language

  • Pepperburg “Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots”
  • Evans “Cracking the Code: Communication and Cognition in Birds”

November 12

Theory of mind

  • Premack “‘Does the Chimpanzee Have a Theory of Mind?' Revisited”
  • Heyes “Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates” and Commentary

November 19

Theory of mind

  • Tomasello et al “Chimpanzees Understand Psychological States—The Question is Which Ones and to What Extent”
  • Povinelli and Vonk “We Don't Need a Microscope to Explore the Chimpanzee Mind”

November 26

Theory of mind

  • Andrews “Chimpanzee Theory of Mind: Looking in All the Wrong Places?”

http://www.yorku.ca/andrewsk/documents/Chimpanzeetheoryofmind.pdf

December 3

Dolphins

Thomas White Sea People Chapter 6

Dolphin Social Intelligence

Microsoft Word version

PDF version

Winter Break

 

 

January 7

Personhood

Leiber

January 14

Animal Rights

Francione Introduction to Animal Rights Ch. 1-4

January 21

Animal Rights

Francione Introduction to Animal Rights Ch.5-7

January 28

Legal standing

Animal Law 2002

The legal status of nonhuman animals (Panel Discussion)

 

February 4

Morally relevant properties: Rationality and Pain

Christopher Preston “Animality and Morality: Human Reason as an Animal Activity” Environmental Values 11:4(2002): 427-442

 

Colin Allen “ Animal Pain

Nous December 2004 - Volume 38 Issue 4

February 11

 

Anne Russon visits

"Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence"

"Great ape cognitive systems"

February 18

Reading Week

NO CLASS

February 25

Animal Moral Agency

Frans de Waal Good Natured Ch 1-3

March 4

Animal Moral Agency

Frans de Waal Good Natured Ch 4-6

March 11

 Anthropomorphism

Brian Keeley "Anthropomorphism, primatomorphism, mammalomorphism: Understanding cross-species comparisons"

March 18

 Mind, Language, and Society

Dunbar Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language Ch 1-5

March 25

Good Friday

NO CLASS

April 1

 Mind, Language, and Society

Dunbar Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language Ch 6-10


©2003 Kristin Andrews