Week 2: Anthropomorphism and Comparative Analysis

• Busch, Heather and Burton Silver (1994), Why Cats Paint: A theory of feline aesthetics. Berkeley CA: Ten Speed Press.
• Dennett, Daniel C. (1997), What Kind of Minds Are There? In Daniel Dennett Kinds of Minds. New York: Basic Books.
• Timberlake, William and Cynthia M. Hoffman (1998), Comparative Analyses of Learning. In G. Greenberg and M. Haraway (Eds.) Comparative Psychology: a casebook. New York: Garland.
• Against anthropomorphism
  • Davis, Hank (1997), Animal Cognition Versus Animal Thinking: The Anthropomorphic Error. In Mitchell, Thompson, and Miles (Eds.) Anthropomorphism, anecdotes, and animals.
  • Gallup, Gordon G. Jr., Lori Marino, and Timothy J. Eddy (1997), Anthropomorphism and the Evolution of Social Intelligence: A Comparative Approach. In R.W. Mitchell, N.S. Thompson, and H.L. Miles.
• Pro Anthropomorphism
  • Bekoff, M. and Colin Allen (1997), Cognitive ethology: Slayers, skeptics, and proponents. In R.W. Mitchell, N.S. Thompson, and H.L.Miles.