List of Illustrations

Foreword

Frans B. M. de Waal

Acknowledgments

PART I. ATTITUDES, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

1. Taking Anthropomorphism and Anecdotes Seriously

Robert W. Mitchell

Nicholas S. Thompson

H. Lyn Miles

2. Dogs, Darwinism, and English Sensibilities

Elizabeth Knoll

3. Why Anthropomorphism Is Not Metaphor: Crossing Concepts and Cultures in Animal Behaviour Studies

Pamela J. Asquith

PART II. THE NATURE OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM

4. Amorphism, Mechanomorphism, and Anthropomorphism

Emanuela Cenami Spada

5. Anthropomorphism: A Definition and a Theory

Stewart Elliott Guthrie

6. Why Anthropomorphize? Folk Psychology and Other Stories

Linnda R. Caporael

Cecilia M. Heyes

PART III. ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND MENTAL STATE ATTRIBUTION

7. Anthropomorphism and the Evolution of Social Intelligence: A Comparative Approach

Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.

Lori Marino

Timothy J. Eddy

8. Panmorphism

Daniel J. Povinelli

9. Anthropomorphism and Scientific Evidence for Animal Mental States

Hugh Lehman

10. Anthropomorphism in Mother-Infant Interaction: Cultural Imperative or Scientific Acumen?

Robert L. Russell

PART IV. ANECDOTES AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM

11. Anecdote, Anthropomorphism, and Animal Behavior

Bernard E. Rollin

12. What's the Use of Anecdotes? Distinguishing Psychological Mechanisms in Primate Tactical Deception

Richard W. Byrne

13. Anthromophic Anecdotalism As Method

Robert W. Mitchell

14. A Pragmatic Approach to the Inference of Animal Mind

Paul S. Silverman

PART V. INTENTIONALITY

15. Varieties of Purposive Behavior

Ruth Garrett Millikan

16. Expressions of Mind in Animal Behavior

Colin Beer

PART VI. CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

17. Self-Awareness, with Specific References to Coleoid Cephalopods

Martin H. Moynihan

18. Silent Partners? Observations on Some Systematic Relations among Observer Perspective, Theory, and Behavior

Duane Quiatt

19. Common Sense and the Mental Lives of Animals: An Empirical Approach

Harold A. Herzog

Shelley Galvin

20. Amending Tinbergen: A Fifth Aim for Ethology

Gordon M. Burghardt

21. A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Nonhuman Animals

Kenneth J. Shapiro

22. Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Mirrors

Karyl B. Swartz

Sian Evans

PART VII. CONGNITION

23. Cognitive Ethology: Slayers, Skeptics, and Proponents

Marc Bekoff

Colin Allen

24. Animal Cognition Versus Animal Thinking: The Anthropomorphic Error

Hank Davis

25. Anthropomorphism Is the Null Hypothesis and Recapitulationism Is the Bogeyman in Comparative Developmental Evolutionary Studies

Sue Taylor Parker

PART VIII. LANGUAGE

26. Anthropocentrism and the Study of Animal Language

Judith Kiriazis

Con N. Slobodchikoff

27. Pinnipeds, Porpoises, and Parsimony: Animal Language Research Viewed from a Bottom-up Perspective

Ronald J. Schusterman

Robert C. Gisiner

28. Anthropomorphism, Apes, and Language

H. Lyn Miles

PART IX. COMPARING PERSPECTIVES

29. Anthropomorphism and Anecdotes: A Guide for the Perplexed

Robert W. Mitchell

List of Contributors

References

Indexes