Not so Clever Hans
Jerry Fodor, 4 February 1999
If a Lion Could Talk: How Animals Think
by Stephen Budiansky.
Weidenfeld, 219 pp., £20, December 1998,0 297 81932 1 Show More
by Stephen Budiansky.
Weidenfeld, 219 pp., £20, December 1998,
“... inhibitions? If a Lion Could Talk invites that sort of grouchy and tendentious speculation. Stephen Budiansky wants to know whether animals think. Quite sensibly, he has gone to what science there is for what answers it affords, and the book is a report for a lay audience. Well researched and easy to read, it’s a success by the standards of this ... ”