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The Phenomenology of Animal Life
This paper presents a bi-constructivist approach to the study of animal life, which is opposed to the realist-Cartesian paradigm in which most ethology operates. The method is elaborated through the…
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The Biosemiotics and Phylogenesis of Culture
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This article shows that the biosemiotic approach to animal cultures is, on the contrary, essential to their understanding, even if the complexity of animal communications is far from being well enough understood.
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Knot tying in great apes: etho-ethnology of an unusual tool behavior
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It is intended to show that, unlike what is usually said, some great apes are able to tie knots and propose an ethology of the singular, at the crossroad of ethology and ethnology, to describe Wattana’s skills.
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Etho-ethnology and ethno-ethology
English In this article we defend the idea that etho-ethnology and ethno-ethology should be combined into a new science at the interface between human and animal sciences. This new field would study…
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Les origines animales de la culture
What Capabilities for the Animal?
In this essay, I defend a bi-constructivist approach to ethology—a constructivist ethology assuming that each animal adopts constructivist strategies. I put it in opposition to what I call a…
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Tools, techniques and animals: the role of mediations of actions in the dynamics of social behaviours
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It is shown that Beck's definition of tool is insufficient and that it does not work, and an ecology of mediations of actions is replaced with a theory of mediation of actions to account for technical behaviours in animals.
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The Australian pied butcherbird and the natureculture continuum
Background in zoömusicology. The discipline of zoömusicology is a pioneering enterprise that requires the collaboration of practices, methodologies, and expert knowledge from a variety of areas.…
Why Are We So Fond of Monsters
Human attraction to monsters is such that we could almost characterize Homo sapiens as ‘the species that loves monsters’. In fact, there is hardly a single human culture that finds itself indifferent…
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MIRROR EFFECTS
  • Dominique Lestel
  • Sociology
    The Philosophical Ethology of Dominique Lestel
  • 3 July 2014
Abstract This extract from Lestel's Paroles de singes analyses the methodological debates of the research into the linguistic capabilities of great apes. Lestel uncovers the strategic blindness,…
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