88 Citations
Between Homo Sociologicus and Homo Biologicus: The Reflexive Self in the Age of Social Neuroscience
- Psychology
- 2012
The social sciences rely on assumptions of a unified self for their explanatory logics. Recent work in the new multidisciplinary field of social neuroscience challenges precisely this unproblematic…
Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness
- BiologyPLoS biology
- 2019
The study suggests an intermediate level of mirror understanding, closer to that of monkeys than hominids, and presents results that, due to ambiguous behavior and the use of physically irritating marks, fall short of mirror self-recognition.
Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness
- Biology
- 2019
The study suggests an intermediate level of mirror understanding, closer to that of monkeys than hominids, and presents results that, due to ambiguous behavior and the use of physically irritating marks, fall short of mirror self-recognition.
Theory of Animal Mind: Human Nature or Experimental Artefact?
- PsychologyTrends in Cognitive Sciences
- 2017
Self-Awareness and Selfhood in Animals
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 2016
An overview of the concepts of selfhood and self-awareness is provided by Thomas to clarify what is meant by these terms, and to argue that many animals are self-aware at both minimal and rich…
Animal passions and beastly virtues : Cognitive ethology as the unifying science for understanding the subjective, emotional, empathic, and moral lives of animals
- Psychology
- 2006
My essay was written as a response to four papers that were presented at the 2004 annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in a session that was devoted to my research on animal…
The trans-species core SELF: The emergence of active cultural and neuro-ecological agents through self-related processing within subcortical-cortical midline networks
- Psychology, BiologyConsciousness and Cognition
- 2009
Self-system in a model of cognition
- Psychology
- 2012
Philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have proposed various forms of a "self" in humans and animals. All of these selves seem to have a basis in some form of consciousness. The Global…
ALL ANIMALS MATTER: MARC BEKOFF'S CONTRIBUTION TO CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
- Philosophy
- 2006
Along with Jane Goodall, Mark Bekoff proposes that religion can join science in recognizing that animals have minds of their own; that humans can humbly imagine themselves inside these minds, all the…
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Consciousness and Self in Animals: Some Reflections
- Psychology, Biology
- 2003
It is concluded that there are degrees of consciousness and self among animals and that it is likely that no animal has the same highly developed sense of self as that displayed by most humans.
A critical review of methodology and interpretation of mirror self-recognition research in nonhuman primates
- PsychologyAnimal Behaviour
- 1999
In this paper we critically review conceptual and methodological issues of mirror self-exploration research. We conclude that: (1) mirror self-exploration provides evidence for mirror…
A critical review of methodology and interpretation of mirror self-recognition research in nonhuman primates.
- PsychologyAnimal behaviour
- 1999
Proposals of hypotheses to account phylogenetically for the existence of inter- and intraspecies differences in mirror self-recognition are premature and before hypotheses such as these are advanced, the impact of rearing conditions on mirrorSelf- Recognition should be examined further.
Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives
- Biology
- 1994
Self-recognition in apes and monkeys: implications for comparative study of highly dissimilar species Lori Marino, Diana Reiss and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.
Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart
- Psychology, Art
- 2002
In Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries.…
Reflections on self-recognition in primates
- PsychologyAnimal Behaviour
- 1994
Abstract Abstract. Evidence that apes touch head marks more in the presence of a mirror than in its absence have been taken to indicate that, unlike monkeys, they are capable of self-recognition and…
Me Chantek: The development of self-awareness in a signing orangutan.
- Biology
- 1994
The orangutan, having the most pleisiomorphic traits of the great apes, is the most primitive and has been termed “a living fossil” (Lewin, 1983).
Fundamental feelings
- Psychology, BiologyNature
- 2001
Because feelings are the direct consequences of emotions, the elucidation of emotional neurobiology opens the way to elucidating the neurobiology of feelings.
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
- Psychology
- 2000
Do animals think? Can they count? Do they have emotions? Do they feel anger, frustration, hurt or sorrow? Are they bound by any moral code? Professor Hauser offers answers to these questions, using…