Additional readings will be made available by direct links or via the IU library e-reserves (also requires a password).

See syllabus for additional assignment details.

Jan 12

Topic: Historical overview; Presenter: Colin Allen; Readings: See Dr. Robert Cook's website for information about some of the historical figures discussed.

Jan 19

Continuation of historical overview.

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Topic: Semantics/Meaning; Presenter: Colin Allen; Readings: TCA-32 (Slobodchikoff) and TCA-38 (Rendall & Owren); see also TCA-33 (Miller & Ghazanfar)

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General discussion reading: Dennett 1983 (e-reserve)

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Additional Resources: Dec 2004 press AP story on Slobodchikoff's work

Jan 26

Topic: Tool Use; Presenter: Gil Ramos; Readings: TCA-50 (Visalberghi), Kacelnik et al. website (watch videos!), Tebbich & Bshary (2004), Fox et al. 2004 on orang utan tool use

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General discussion readings: "The emergence of knapping and vocal expression embedded in a Pan/Homo culture" by Savage-Rumbaugh et al. Biology & Philosophy vol. 19 no. 4 -- full access to Kluwer website available from within IU domain

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Additional Resources: (Videos of knapping by Kanzi and co.)

Feb 02

Topic: Memory and Reasoning; Presenter: Jason Lopez; Readings: TCA-16 (Shettleworth); TCA-17 (Balda & Kamil); Clayton et al. 2005

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General discussion readings: Emery & Clayton 2004; Schwartz et al. 2001

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Feb 09

Topic: Animal Communication; Presenter: Katie Kalafut; Readings: Seyfarth & Cheney 1997; TCA-36 (Tomasello & Zuberbühler); TCA-37 (Smuts)

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General discussion readings: TCA-39 (Evans); Allen & Saidel 1998

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Additional Resources: Bird communication

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Feb 16

Topic: Anthropomorphism; Presenter: Daniel Sanford; Readings: Fisher "The Myth of Anthropomorphism" (e-reserve); Keeley "Anthropomorphism, primatomorphism, mammalomorphism: understanding cross-species comparisons" in Biology & Philosophy vol. 19 no. 4; TCA-14 (Timberlake); TCA-2 (Rivas & Burghardt)

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General discussion reading: Sober "Morgan's canon" (e-reserve)

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Feb 23

Topic: Altruism; Presenter: Costas Mannouris; Readings: Sober & Wilson "Unto others, Chap. 1" (e-reserve); Flack & de Waal "Play signaling and perception of social rules by Juvenile chimpanzees"

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General discussion reading: Allen & Bekoff forthcoming

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Topic: Deception; Presenter: Alex Leykin Readings: TCA-4 (Wilcox & Jackson); TCA-43 (Güzeldere et al.); Hauser, selection from Evolution of Communication

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General discussion reading: Dennett 1983 (e-reserve)

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Mar 02

Topic: Metacognition; Presenter: Stephen Crowley; Readings: Smith et al. "The comparative psychology of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition"; Browne "Do dolphins know their own minds?" in Biology & Philosophy vol. 19 no. 4

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Mar 09

Topic: Pain and Consciousness; Presenter: Chad Gonnerman; Readings: TCA-11 (Grau); Allen 2004 "Animal Pain"

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Topic; Evolution of Cognition; Presenter: Brittany Davis; Readings: Heyes 2003 "Four routes of cognitive evolution"; TCA-44 (Hare & Wrangham); TCA-41 (Shumaker & Swartz)

Mar 16 Spring break

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Mar 23 Instructor absence

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Mar 30 Instructor absence

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Apr 06

Topic: Language; Presenter: Cameron Buckner; Readings: TCA-31 (Pepperberg); TCA-34 (Herman); TCA-35 (Fouts et al.)

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General reading: Bermudez (e-reserve)

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Apr 13 Final presentations

Costas, & Gil

Background for Costas's presentation: The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme by Gould & Lewontin.

Apr 20 Final presentations

Katie, Daniel & Alex

Apr 27 Final presentations

Steve, Chad & Jason

May 04 (Makeup class) Final presentations

Brittany & Cameron