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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Reasons without language: the case of non-human animals / Razones sin lenguaje: el caso de los animales no humanos

Crelier, Andrés 09 April 2018 (has links)
The paper puts forward the thesis that non-human animals are able to operate withreasons. It argues that the flexible individual conduct is evidence of instrumentalrationality and that the context of a practical problem –like tool use by chimpanzees–points toward the existence of deliberative thought. Reasons can be seen as mental representations and deliberation as a way to operate with series ofrepresentations. Finally, it is suggested that a communicative infrastructure –suchas the one elucidated by Tomasello– makes it possible to communicate reasonswithout language. / La tesis general del trabajo es que los animales no lingüísticos pueden operar en base a razones. Se sostiene ante todo que la conducta individual flexible de algunos animales ofrece evidencia de racionalidad instrumental. Se argumenta luego que en el marco de los problemas prácticos –como el de la fabricación y uso de herramientas por parte de algunos primates– pueden advertirse procesos de deliberación sin lenguaje. Las razones se interpretan como representacionesmentales y la deliberación como un modo de operar sobre series de representaciones asociadas. Se sostiene, finalmente, que la existencia de una infraestructura comunicativa no lingüística –como la que propone Tomasello– permite ya comunicar razones.

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