Philosophy and Cognitive Ethology

9320214 Allen在科罗拉多大学Marc Bekoff教授的指导下，Allen博士专注于心灵哲学和认知行为学对彼此的影响。艾伦博士是一位哲学家；Bekoff教授是一位动物行为学家。在Bekoff教授的指导下，Allen博士正在研究适用于动物行为学的经验技术和动物行为学的解释目标。艾伦博士的研究目标是提高我们对心灵哲学在多大程度上有助于推进认知行为学家的经验目标以及行为学数据对心灵哲学理论的影响程度的理解。在科罗拉多工作的这一年里，艾伦博士参加了贝科夫教授关于鸟类反捕食者警惕性的研究。这两人已经在认知行为学的概念问题上共同撰写了文章。他们利用这一经验共同研究认知行为学及其与心灵哲学的关系。这项研究有望对这两个领域的专家以及对人类和其他动物心理的本质和起源的更广泛的社会兴趣具有重要意义。＊＊＊

9320214 Allen Working under the direction of Professor Marc Bekoff of the University of Colorado, Dr. Allen is focusing on the impact of philosophy of mind and cognitive ethology on each other. Dr. Allen is a philosopher; Professor Bekoff is an ethologist. Dr. Allen is studying under Professor Bekoff's direction the empirical techniques appropriate to ethology and the explanatory objectives of ethologists. Dr. Allen's research objectives are to improve our understanding of the extent to which philosophy of mind can help advance empirical objectives of cognitive ethologists and the extent to which ethological data bear on philosophical theories of mind. During the course of the year that he is spending working in Colorado, Dr. Allen is participating in Professor Bekoff's study of antipredator vigilance in birds. These two have already jointly authored articles on conceptual issues in cognitive ethology. They are using this experience working together in order to develop an extended treatment of cognitive ethology and its relationship to philosophy of mind. This study promises to be of significance to specialists in both fields as well as to the wider societal interest in the nature and origins of mentality in humans and other animals. ***