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HOW THE ANIMALS AROUND YOU THINK: ​The Semiotics of Animal Cognition​

C. P. ROSENTHAL​
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ISBN 978-1-5323-4142-7
Publication date: October 2019
Format: 6 by 9 inches, hardback with dust jacket
196 pages

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The Cheese is a big, silver cat with vertical black stripes. He has leapt from an upper deck through a second story window and sits on the sill. Now the Cheese jumps from the windowsill, goes down stairs and meows from the bottom of the steps. He wants to eat, but he won’t go to the food bowl unless someone accompanies him because he wants to be petted while he eats. The Cheese is meowing to someone he can’t see so they will come do something for him in a place where he is not. If he weren’t capable of abstract thought, how could he do this?

​Animals think, says C. P. Rosenthal. They think in signs. Using a wholly unique combination of philosophical discourse and examples of observable, everyday animal behavior, Rosenthal offers a powerful argument and a theory for animal cognition. This is a book that challenges current scientific, linguistic, and theological positions and offers ample evidence that despite not possessing language as we know it, the animals around us are conscious.

C. P. Rosenthal holds advanced degrees in philosophy and literature with emphasesin Language Theory and Semiotics.  He has been observing domestic animal behavior for over forty years. He is a Professor of Narrative and Narrative Theory at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

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​Psychology Today—Mar 06, 2020 How Animals Think, Feel, and Communicate Without LanguageAn interview with Chuck Rosenthal about his new book about animal minds.

An imprint of What Books Press, Los Angeles

GIANT CLAW is a small press located in Los Angeles, California. We are an imprint of What Books Press. Both presses are run by the Glass Table Collective, a diverse group of artists and writers.
 
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