Abstract
Commentary: Interpretations without justification: a general argument against Morgan's Canon.
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Specialty section: This article was submitted to Comparative Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Morgan’s (1903, p. 59) Canon states, “In no case is an animal activity to be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes, if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of processes which stand lower in the scale of psychological evolution and development.”
The crux of Starzak’s (2016) argument against Morgan’s Canon is that regardless of which interpretation of the principle one favors, there is no justification for assuming that explanations emphasizing processes at one position along any particular “scale of psychological evolution and development” are better than other explanations that emphasize processes at other positions along that scale
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Comparative Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. A commentary on Interpretations without justification: a general argument against Morgan’s Canon by Starzak, T.
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