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Thinking: Thinking is a cognitive process that involves mental activities such as reasoning, problem solving, decision making, imagination and conceptualization. These operations enable individuals to process information, make sense of their experiences and interact with the world around them.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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John Dupré on Thinking - Dictionary of Arguments

Perler I 318
Animal/Thinking/Language/Descartes/Dupré: Even those who defend the cognitive abilities of the animals the most often accept the Cartesian assumption that it is in principle impossible to prove the thinking or even the consciousness of animals because this would be conceptually dependent on behavior.
>Animals
, >Animal language, >Communication, >Consciousness, >R. Descartes.
Perler I 319
DupréVsDavidson: if Davidson were right, the question at stake would not only be whether or not one can teach monkeys to speak, but whether one can teach them to think.
>Animals/Davidson, >Language/Davidson, >Thinking/Davidson.
Perler I 321
Language/Thinking/Dupré: there are many forms of non-verbal behavior that allow communication, and many non-verbal manifestations of thinking.
>Thinking and language, >Thinking without language.


John Dupré, 1991. "Conversation with Apes. Reflections on the Scientific Study of language". In: Investigating Psychology, Science of Mind after Wittgenstein, J. Hyman (ed.) London, New York: Routledge

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Dupré I
John Dupré
"Conversations with Apes. Reflections on the Scientific Study of Language", in: Investigating Psychology. Sciences of the Mind after Wittgenstein, J. Hyman (Ed) London/New York 1991, pp. 95-116
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Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005

Perler I
Dominik Perler
Markus Wild
Der Geist der Tiere Frankfurt 2005


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