The Three Semiotic Lives of Domestic Cats: A Case Study on Animal Social Cognition
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-017-9295-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-017-9295-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-017-9295-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12304-017-9295-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Three Semiotic Lives of Domestic Cats: A Case Study on Animal Social Cognition
Original language description
The social cognition of domestic cats (Felis catus) is a scarcely studied topic due to the reputation of the animal as individualistic. Nevertheless, cats are capable of cognitively demanding cooperative activities such as a communal nest-moving. The cognitive abilities of free-ranging cats are evaluated against the background of the shared intentionality hypothesis, proposed by a research group of Michael Tomasello. Although their comparative studies are carried out on chimpanzees, they are valuable as a source of conceptual work linking empirical cognitive studies with the philosophical accounts of joint agency. We critically analyze theoretical cognitive concepts interpreting the triadic interactions of great apes and the collective hunting among chimpanzees. Contrary to the shared intentionality hypothesis, it is argued that cats have cognitive abilities to share attention, truly cooperate and constitute shared meanings. Finally, we introduce the concept of the natural interaction ritual by Randall Collins and outline its significance for our case study about cats as well as for a general biosemiotic theory of the development of symbols.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GF17-33808L" target="_blank" >GF17-33808L: Inferentialism and collective intentionality</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biosemiotics
ISSN
1875-1342
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
279-293
UT code for WoS article
000409480600009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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