Comment on Roger Thomas' "Lloyd Morgan's Canon: A History of Misrepresentation"
(2002) Comment on Roger Thomas' "Lloyd Morgan's Canon: A History of Misrepresentation".
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Abstract
Examining the canon itself without reference to ancillary material suggests that we should interpret animal behavior using Ockham's razor and rejecting anthropomorphism. This may well be the reason it has been so widely misrepresented by others.
| EPrint Type: | Other |
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| Keywords: | animal behavior, anthropomorphism, comparative psychology, Lloyd Morgan, Occam's razor, simplicity |
| Subjects: | Chronology > 20th Century Geography > Europe History > Intellectual Psychology > Animal/Comparative/Ethology Psychology > Cognition Psychology > Evolution Psychology > Methodology Theory > Epistemology Theory > Philosophy of Science |
| ID Code: | 37 |
| Deposited By: | Green, Christopher D. |
| Deposited On: | 21 January 2002 |