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  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Animal Cognition
  • Psychopathology

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  • Non-human psychopathology is traditionally viewed through behavioral terms.
  • Existing theories struggle to account for mental representations in mentally-ill non-human minds.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To defend a representational approach to non-human psychopathology.
  • To argue that some non-human mental disorders involve contentful mental representations.

Main Methods:

  • Appealing to the interactivist account of mental representation.
  • Integrating historical dimensions (Millikan) into Bickhard's autonomy-based account of biological function.

Main Results:

  • Mental misrepresentation in non-human minds becomes possible by incorporating a historical dimension.
  • Bickhard's dynamic account explains local functionality of disorders, while an etiological dimension explains global dysfunction.

Conclusions:

  • Representational and biosemiotic hypotheses offer a progressive research program for understanding non-human psychopathology.
  • These approaches enrich the study of causes and development of animal mental disorders.