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Individuating Cognitive Characters: Lessons from Praying Mantises and Plants.

This article advances the development of a phylogeny-based psychology in which cognitive ability types are individuated as characters in the evolutionary biological sense. I explain the character concept and its utility in addressing (or dissolving) conceptual problems arising from discoveries of co...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 930 - 950
Main Author: Figdor, Carrie
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Oct2024
Subjects:
Developmental psychology
Cognitive ability
Episodic memory
Mantodea
Prayer
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