"The object of grief" by Clark Glymour

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Citation

Glymour, Clark (2016) The object of grief. Animal Sentience 4(5)

Author Website

http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/faculty-glymour.php

Commentary Type

Invited Commentary

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Barbara J. King, Animal mourning: Précis of How animals grieve (King 2013)

Abstract

King’s new book is a wonderful collection of diverse anecdotes illustrating the variety of animal practices that are convincing illustrations of grief. Those who want scientific arguments for that conclusion should, however, read elsewhere.

Author Biography

Clark Glymour cg09@andrew.cmu.edu is Alumni University Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He works on the development of computer programs that extract causal information from medical and scientific databases.

http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/faculty-glymour.php