Philosophy and Cognitive Ethology

9320214艾伦博士在科罗拉多大学马克·贝科夫教授的指导下工作，专注于心理哲学和认知行为学之间的相互影响。艾伦博士是一位哲学家；贝科夫教授是一位行为学家。艾伦博士在贝科夫教授的指导下研究适用于行为学的经验技术和行为学家的解释目标。艾伦博士的研究目标是提高我们对心理哲学在多大程度上有助于推进认知行为学家的经验目标，以及行为学数据在多大程度上支持哲学心理理论的理解。在科罗拉多州工作的这一年里，艾伦博士参与了贝科夫教授关于鸟类抗捕食者警觉性的研究。这两人已经共同撰写了关于认知行为学概念问题的文章。他们正在利用这一经验共同努力，以开发认知行为学及其与心灵哲学的关系的扩展疗法。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性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. ***