Morgan's canon and the associative-cognitive distinction today: A survey of practitioners.

IF 1.1 4区心理学 Q4 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI:10.1037/com0000404

Konstantinos Voudouris, Benjamin G Farrar, Lucy G Cheke, Marta Halina

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Philosophers of science and mind have paid increasing attention to the field of comparative psychology. Two recurring points of discussion in the literature are the methodological value of Morgan's Canon and the distinction between associative and cognitive processes. Although the existing literature regularly makes claims about the beliefs and attitudes of comparative psychologists, there are few empirical studies verifying these claims. This article fills this gap by presenting and analyzing the views of over 200 comparative psychologists on Morgan's Canon and the associative-cognitive distinction. We found that while there is some agreement between the claims in the existing literature and the views of the practitioners surveyed here (e.g., that Morgan's Canon is a parsimony principle), there are also surprising points of divergence (e.g., practitioners do not view the associative-cognitive distinction as a version of Morgan's Canon). We intend for this study to inform existing philosophical and theoretical work on perennial questions regarding how to study animal minds and behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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摩根的经典和今天的联想-认知区别：对实践者的调查。

科学哲学家和心灵哲学家越来越关注比较心理学领域。文献中两个反复出现的讨论点是摩根经典的方法论价值以及联想过程和认知过程之间的区别。虽然现有文献经常对比较心理学家的信仰和态度提出主张，但很少有实证研究证实这些主张。本文通过介绍和分析200多位比较心理学家对摩根准则和联想-认知区分的看法，填补了这一空白。我们发现，虽然现有文献中的主张与这里调查的实践者的观点之间存在一些一致之处（例如，摩根的准则是一个简约原则），但也存在令人惊讶的分歧点（例如，实践者并不将联想-认知区分视为摩根准则的一个版本）。我们打算通过这项研究，为现有的关于如何研究动物心理和行为的长期问题的哲学和理论工作提供信息。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology 生物-动物学

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3.30

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Comparative Psychology publishes original research from a comparative perspective on the behavior, cognition, perception, and social relationships of diverse species.