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Kristin Andrews: The animal mind: an introduction to the philosophy of animal cognition

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Notes

  1. Cf. Wynne 2002.

  2. Cf. Lurz 2009; Allen and Bekoff 1999.

  3. Cf. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/animal-studies-move-from-the-lab-to-the-lecture-hall.html?_r=0

  4. Cf. Braithwaite 2010.

  5. Cf. Hunt 1996.

  6. Cf. Svartberg and Forkman 2009.

  7. Cf. Kraus et al. 2010.

  8. Grimm 2014.

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Merritt, M. Kristin Andrews: The animal mind: an introduction to the philosophy of animal cognition. Phenom Cogn Sci 15, 475–481 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-015-9442-y

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