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The New Anthropomorphism (Paperback, New)
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The New Anthropomorphism (Paperback, New)
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In this 1992 book, John Kennedy's point is that explicit
anthropomorphism was well-nigh killed by fierce criticism from the
radical Behaviourists, but that we have to recognize that today
there is a new anthropomorphism which is much harder to avoid
because it is unintended and largely unconscious. For that reason
even those who if they were asked would firmly reject
anthropomorphism nevertheless unwittingly slip into it from time to
time. This book contains nineteen essays on behavioural concepts
which have seldom been identified as anthropomorphic but in fact
bear that connotation and lead to mistakes. Some of these, such as
search images in birds and the learning of grammatical language by
apes, have been seen through as errors after a time. A greater
number, such as efference copy, goal-directedness, cognition and
suffering in animals, are still current though not yet regarded as
erroneous. The final chapter outlines things we can do to minimise
the damage it does to the causal analysis of animal behaviour.
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