Michael J. Hegarty, PhD
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You can visit the academic website of Michael J. Hegarty, PhD at https://mjhegarty-philosophy.owlstown.net.
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Cocka-Tooling Around: Innovation and Self-Representation in Avian Tool Use**
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Abstract I argue that Goffin’s cockatoos are individual innovators: they arrive at novel solutions to some practical problems in thought...
Practically Rational Animals*
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Abstract This paper defends the conditional thesis: if non-human animals engage in instrumental practical reasoning involving individual...
Transformative Rationality and the Problem of ‘Creeping Rationalism’
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Abstract According to ‘transformative’ theories of rationality, human rational mental capacities cannot be completely explained using th...