50 Years of Language Experiments with Great Apes

ISBN-13: 9783631720936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 102 str.

Igor Hanzel

Opis

The book approaches the language experiments with great apes performed in the last 50 years from the point of view of logical semantics, speech act theory, and philosophy of the social sciences. The author shows that modern scientific research into great apes has shifted from natural science to social science.

Spis treści

Experiments with the great apes Washoe, Chantek, Lana, Sherman, Austin, Kanzi, Sarah and Sheba - Various kinds of languages - Language of mathematics - Philosophy of science - Social sciences - New mathematical experiments - Modern semantical reconstruction of the language of mathematics

O autorze

Igor Hanzel studied philosophy and physics at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, where he is a Senior Researcher. He specializes in the methodology and philosophy of natural and social sciences.