Social Mechanisms, Antropomorphism and Cognitive Processes in Non-Human Animals. 40 Years after Chimpanzee Politics

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The attribution of thoughts and mind to non-human animals generates heated debates and controversies among scholars of animal behavior. Social mechanisms –such as play as a behavior produced by natural selection that has survival value– strongly catch the attention of ethologists, psychologists and philosophers of mind when it comes to establishing how far can we go in embracing scientific anthropomorphism without falling into hasty analogies of naive and uninformed anthropomorphism. This paper appeals to the concept of social mechanisms, among others, in de Waal to address the problem of how to study some survival strategies in social groups, how to justify scientific anthropomorphism and to what extent we can talk about mental processes in other animals.
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