Philosophical Primatology: Reflections on Theses of Anthropological Difference, the Logic of Anthropomorphism and Anthropodenial, and the Self-other Category Mistake Within the Scope of Cognitive Primate Research

Wendler, Hannes

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“…For as long as animals are studied from a human perspective and are tested in terms of human problems (capacity to count, to draw, to speak a human language) instead of their own questions and problems, they will always respond “as they can” (Canguilhem, 1992), without ever being able to fully express their agency. However, there have been philosophical and anthropological attempts to blur the boundaries between humans and other animals (Andrews, 2020a; Böhnert & Hilbert, 2018; Daly Bezerra de Melo, 2012, 2018; De Waal, 2016; Langlitz, 2020; Wendler, 2020). As Jacques Derrida wrote in The Animal That Therefore I Am (2008), the traditional scientific and philosophical discourse on animals observes and speaks of nonhuman animals but never really engages with, experiments with, or gains experience with the latter (Derrida, 2008): This type of discourse can therefore only position animals as mere passive objects of the theoretical knowledge these disciplines build.…”

Section: Evidence That Animals Have Agencymentioning

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Incorporating animal agency into research design could improve behavioral and neuroscience research.

Sueur¹,

Zanaz²,

Péle³

2023

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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Despite increasing numbers of publications showing that many animals possess the neural substrates involved in emotions and consciousness and exhibit agency in their behavior, many animals are still restrained and forced to take part in applied or fundamental research. However, these restraints and procedures, because they stress animals and limit the expression of adaptive behavior, may result in compromised findings. Researchers should alter their research paradigms to understand the mechanisms and functions of the brain and behavior so that the paradigms incorporate animals’ agency. This article discusses how animal agency cannot only be the key to more wide-ranging and improved research in existing domains but can also lead to new research questions about behavior and brain evolution.

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Section: Evidence That Animals Have Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Incorporating animal agency into research design could improve behavioral and neuroscience research.

Sueur¹,

Zanaz²,

Péle³

2023

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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“…Historically, the term "language" was used in linguistics and referred specifically to human language. It is believed that speaking about language or something similar in relation to animals is possible only if one adheres to an anthropomorphic point of view (Wendler 2020). However, it is obvious that there is a phenomenon that resembles the language of humans and performs similar functions, which is best studied by biosemiotics as a manifestation of semiosis (Kull 2014).…”

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Semiotic Threshold: Animals and People

Ptitsyna

2021

Linguistic Frontiers

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The author discusses the question of whether animals have a language. The article examines the similarities and differences in the linguistic capabilities of animals and humans. The similarity lies in the fact that animals can use symbolic signs to receive and send messages. Among other things, they can receive and interpret signs on a delayed basis without the direct presence of their sender, although to a fundamentally lesser extent than people. The comparison is carried out both for signs perceived by the organism (afferent signs) and for signs created by the organism (efferent signs), both related to communication and the perception of the environment outside the community. The main difference is the possibility of telling about events outside the “here and now” in which the narrator could or may not take part. This is the narrative. No signs of animals using the narrative were found. The resulting differences in storytelling use are hypothesized to be related to additional language functions that have increased in humans compared to animals. People have psychological characteristics caused by the presence of the stage of individuation and separation in development. This allows them to move away from the situation and see it from the outside, which is necessary for retelling. On the other hand, people need to communicate with the help of a narrative, since their society includes a sacred part, whose members receive descriptions of events, requests, questions, and their answers in the form of various signs and the results fortune-telling need a detailed interpretation.

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Man in Relation to the World: Umwelt–Welt Transition

Pudil

2024

Biosemiotics

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Philosophical Primatology: Reflections on Theses of Anthropological Difference, the Logic of Anthropomorphism and Anthropodenial, and the Self-other Category Mistake Within the Scope of Cognitive Primate Research

Cited by 4 publications

References 73 publications

Incorporating animal agency into research design could improve behavioral and neuroscience research.

Incorporating animal agency into research design could improve behavioral and neuroscience research.

Semiotic Threshold: Animals and People

Man in Relation to the World: Umwelt–Welt Transition

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