September
10 |
Introduction
|
|
September
17 |
Rosh
Hashanah |
NO
CLASS |
September
24 |
History
|
http://www.literature.org/authors/descartes-rene/reason-discourse/chapter-05.html
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jel/Descartes.html
http://users.compaqnet.be/cn111132/Voltaire/volanima.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/37/3/13.html
|
October
1 |
Other
Minds |
“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 |