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Cached, Carried, Or Crèched, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 2004

Cached, Carried, Or Crèched, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Adaptation For, Exaptation As, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 2002

Adaptation For, Exaptation As, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Avoiding Vicious Circularity Requires More Than A Modicum Of Care, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 2001

Avoiding Vicious Circularity Requires More Than A Modicum Of Care, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Group Selection And The Origins Of Evil, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1999

Group Selection And The Origins Of Evil, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Can We Make A Deal, John Hartung?, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1999

Can We Make A Deal, John Hartung?, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Reintroducing ‘Reintroducing Group Selection To The Human Behavioral Sciences’To Bbs Readers., Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1998

Reintroducing ‘Reintroducing Group Selection To The Human Behavioral Sciences’To Bbs Readers., Nicholas S. Thompson

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Infant Cries As Evolutionary Melodrama: Extortion Or Deception?, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1998

Infant Cries As Evolutionary Melodrama: Extortion Or Deception?, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Communication And Natural Design, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1997

Communication And Natural Design, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Babies' Cries: Who's Listening? Who's Being Fooled?, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1996

Babies' Cries: Who's Listening? Who's Being Fooled?, Nicholas S. Thompson

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On The Use Of Mental Terms In Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1995

On The Use Of Mental Terms In Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology, Nicholas S. Thompson

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The Many Perils Of Ejective Anthropomorphism, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1994

The Many Perils Of Ejective Anthropomorphism, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Vehicles All The Way Down?, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1994

Vehicles All The Way Down?, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Oh No! Not Social Darwinism Again!, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1993

Oh No! Not Social Darwinism Again!, Nicholas S. Thompson

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The Intentionality Of Some Ethological Terms, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1993

The Intentionality Of Some Ethological Terms, Nicholas S. Thompson

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The apparent incompatibility of mental states with physical explanations has long been a concern of philosophers of psychology. This incompatibility is thought to arise from the intentionality of mental states. But, Brentano notwithstanding, intentionality is an ordinary feature of higher order behavior patterns in the classical literature of ethology.


Are Some Mental States Public Events?, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1993

Are Some Mental States Public Events?, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Why Alison Gopnik Should Be A Behaviorist, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1993

Why Alison Gopnik Should Be A Behaviorist, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Reconstruing Hempelian Motivational Explanations, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1992

Reconstruing Hempelian Motivational Explanations, Nicholas S. Thompson

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When motivational explanations are cast in the Hempelian form, motivations and other mental states usually play the role of antecedent conditions. This leads to two objections: (1) that there is a question-begging connection between the explanandum and the antecedent conditions referring to mental states, and (2) that the intentional character of motivational explanations prevents them from being scientifically useful. These objections are mooted if claims about motivational states are construed as covering laws rather than as statements of antecedent conditions are as covering laws rather than as statements of antecedent conditions.


Why Would We Ever Doubt That Species Are Intelligent?, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1990

Why Would We Ever Doubt That Species Are Intelligent?, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Deception And Descriptive Mentalism, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1988

Deception And Descriptive Mentalism, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Ethology And The Birth Of Comparative Teleonomy, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1986

Ethology And The Birth Of Comparative Teleonomy, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Deception And The Concept Of Behavioral Design, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1985

Deception And The Concept Of Behavioral Design, Nicholas S. Thompson

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The Oilman Cometh, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1981

The Oilman Cometh, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Annals Of Medical Sociobiology: The North Dana Blood Disease, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1980

Annals Of Medical Sociobiology: The North Dana Blood Disease, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Beware The Eyes Of March, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1980

Beware The Eyes Of March, Nicholas S. Thompson

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The Neck Band Of The Blue Jay, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1977

The Neck Band Of The Blue Jay, Nicholas S. Thompson

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How Should We Educate The Class Of 1984?, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1976

How Should We Educate The Class Of 1984?, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Alphabet Soup, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1975

Alphabet Soup, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Pyschobiology As A Form Of General Education, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1972

Pyschobiology As A Form Of General Education, Nicholas S. Thompson

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The Failure Of Pluralism, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1971

The Failure Of Pluralism, Nicholas S. Thompson

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Physical Properties Of Cawing In The Common Crow, Nicholas S. Thompson Jan 1969

Physical Properties Of Cawing In The Common Crow, Nicholas S. Thompson

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