Comment on Roger Thomas' "Lloyd Morgan's Canon: A History of Misrepresentation"

Wozniak, Robert H. (2002) Comment on Roger Thomas' "Lloyd Morgan's Canon: A History of Misrepresentation".

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I too applaud Roger's analysis. Morgan's Canon is not a principle of parsimony, it was not formulated as a guide to the description of behavior, it does not dispense with mental faculties, it is not an appeal to the observable, and it is not meant to be specific to animal psychology.

Commentary on:	Thomas, Roger K. (2001) Lloyd Morgan's Canon: A History of Misrepresentation.
EPrint Type:	Other
Keywords:	animal behavior, anthropomorphism, comparative psychology, Lloyd Morgan, simplicity
Subjects:	Chronology > 20th Century Geography > Europe History > Intellectual Psychology > Animal/Comparative/Ethology Psychology > Cognition Psychology > Eugenics Psychology > Methodology Theory > Epistemology Theory > Philosophy of Science
ID Code:	38
Deposited By:	Green, Christopher D.
Deposited On:	21 January 2002

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- Thomas, Roger K.. Reply to Black and Wozniak on "Lloyd Morgan's Canon: A History of Misrepresentation". (deposited 21 January 2002)
- Dewsbury, Donald A.. On Misrepresenting Lloyd Morgan's Canon. (deposited 30 January 2002)
- Thomas, Roger K.. Reply to Dewsbury on "On Misrepresenting Lloyd Morgan's Canon: Comment on Thomas". (deposited 03 February 2002)