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Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick
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The question of whether nonhuman animals are conscious is of fundamental importance. There are already good reasons to think that many are, based on evolutionary continuity and other considerations. However, the hypothesis is notoriously resistant to direct empirical test. Numerous studies have shown behaviour in animals analogous to consciously-produced human behaviour. Fewer probe whether the same mechanisms are in use. One promising line of evidence about consciousness in other animals der...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Somerville College
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John Fell Fund
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Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
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James Martin twenty-first Century School
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- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Biology and Philosophy Journal website
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 95-110
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1572-8404
- ISSN:
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0169-3867
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- English
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- ora:4174
- Deposit date:
- 2010-09-16
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- Copyright holder:
- N Shea & C Heyes
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Citation: Shea, N. & Heyes, C. (2010). 'Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick', Biology and Philosophy 25(1), 95-110.[Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/47740444255p1277/]. This article is distribured under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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