New e-book „The Rational Animal”

From the publisher’s description::

This book presents the most important and, at the same time, most challenging questions in comparative cognitive science – referred to here as the ‘sextet of animal intelligence’ – using illustrative examples; it discusses them in all their facets and, finally, addresses them with due caution. Starting with the question of human rationality – which is first examined historically and presented as a framework concept – the book examines the latest research findings, which either revise established interpretative frameworks or call for new ones. It is particularly important to critically scrutinise hastily conceived categorisations – which are often derived from research on the human species and from everyday psychological notions – and to view so-called animal irrationality, also known as (mis)performance, from the perspective of species-specific, natural requirements.

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