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  1. Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!news.miami.edu!newssun.med.miami.edu!dbrown
  3. From: dbrown@newssun.med.miami.edu (Daniel Brown)
  4. Subject: Re: Searle on animal consciousness
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.193135.5046@newssun.med.miami.edu>
  6. Organization: University of Miami, School Of Medicine
  7. References: <1993Jan25.174239.29694@psych.toronto.edu> <tim.728091182@giaeb> <1993Jan27.173008.4198@psych.toronto.edu>
  8. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:31:35 GMT
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  11. There is a good collection of papers on attempts to scientifically
  12. demonstrate the extent of cognitive faculties (esp. levels of
  13. thought, e.g. intentionality):
  14.  
  15.     _Cognitive_Ethology:_ 
  16.     ed by Carolyn Ristau
  17.  
  18. The first few chapters have some pretty weak overviews of the relevant
  19. work in philosophy, but the scientific contributions are very interesting.
  20.  
  21. Also, see
  22.  
  23.     _Animal_Thinking_
  24.     by Donald Griffin
  25.  
  26.     _Gavagai!_
  27.     by David Premack
  28.  
  29. Both discuss the possibilities of animal intelligence from a more 
  30. philosophical perspective.
  31.  
  32. Dan
  33.