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50 Years of Language Experiments with Great Apes

by Igor Hanzel (Author)
©2017 Monographs 102 Pages

Summary

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 based on the linguistic turn in philosophy. The author reconstructs the experiments with the great apes Washoe, Chantek, Lana, Sherman, Austin, Kanzi, Sarah and Sheba who were taught various kinds of languages, including the language of mathematics. From the point of view of the philosophy of science these experiments are interpreted as being part of the social sciences. The book proposes new mathematical experiments that are based on modern semantical reconstruction of the language of mathematics. The author shows that modern scientific research into great apes has shifted from natural science to social science.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Abstract
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Gesture-Signs: Washoe and Chantek
  • 2.1 Washoe
  • 2.2 Chantek
  • 3. The Yerkish Signs: Lana, Sherman, Austin, and Kanzi
  • 3.1 Lana
  • 3.2 Sherman, Austin, and Kanzi
  • 4. The Plastic Token Signs: Sarah
  • 5. Mathematics in Great Apes
  • 6. What is Language?
  • 6.1 Language
  • 6.2 AGSL project revisited
  • 6.3 YL project revisited
  • 6.4 PT project revisited
  • 6.5 The addition experiment revisited
  • 7. Methods of Research into Language Capabilities of Great Apes
  • 8. The Results of Language Experiments with Great Apes and the Turn to Social Science
  • 9. New Mathematical Experiments: A Proposal
  • References

Igor Hanzel

50 Years of Language
Experiments with
Great Apes

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About the author

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.

Details

Pages
102
Year
2017
ISBN (PDF)
9783631720905
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631720912
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631720929
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631720936
DOI
10.3726/b11008
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (March)
Keywords
Yerkish language D. Rumbaugh Sign language E. Savage-Rumbaugh R. Gardner B. Gardner
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2017. 102 pp., 11 graphs, 5 tables

Biographical notes

Igor Hanzel (Author)

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.

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