Thinking Animals 1

Animals and Humans, Thinking and Nature

ion. Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger would not even dream of decoupling an animal from its environment, or decoupling humans from one another, but in their analyses they seem to decouple animals from their congeners, and take the individual animal-environment couple as their unit of analysis. While sensitive to other prejudices

Thinking Animals: A Closed Case or an Open Debate?

Comparative Cognition was born out of a meeting on animal thinking through the Ernst Strüngmann Forum. The Forum’s main objective is for the continual advancement of scientific knowledge facilitated by bringing together leading experts to address high-priority areas of interest from multiple vantage points. Editors Menzel and Fischer proposed a Forum on comparative cognition to address key topi...

1 Ability Thinking

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1 Thinking about maps

Development of Quantitative Thinking 1 Development of Quantitative Thinking

For understanding development of quantitative thinking, the distinction between non-symbolic and symbolic thinking is fundamental. Non-symbolic quantitative thinking is present in early infancy, culturally universal, and similar across species. These similarities include the ability to represent and compare numerosities, the representations being noisy and increasing logarithmically with actual...