Plant Studies May Lead Us to Rethink the Concept of Behavior

Cvrčková, Fatima; Žárský, Viktor; Markoš, Anton

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00622

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“…For example, an understanding of nutrition is incomplete if one investigates the mechanisms of digestion while ignoring the evolutionary influences underlying foraging behavior. In this big‐tent approach to behavior, there is room for a diversity of scientific approaches and inquiry, with the noticeable exception being that developmental processes are generally considered separate from behavior (Cvrčková et al., ).…”

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The inevitability of plant behavior

Cahill¹

2019

American J of Botany

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The inevitability of plant behavior

Cahill¹

2019

American J of Botany

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“…This becomes important in pet litigation as products may claim to increase intelligence, cognitive function, or even improve behavior. Consider that there is no consistent definition of the word "behavior" among behavioral biologists (Cvrčková et al, 2016;Levitis et al, 2009). That any product may claim to alter an animal's behavior when little scientific consensus exists as to what is behavior is startling.…”

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Importance of Comparative Psychology in Pet Industry Litigation

Abramson¹,

Black²

2017

Journal of Social Sciences

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Abstract:Comparative psychology is the branch of psychology that studies animal behavior. This article describes the value of comparative psychology for pet industry litigation. An overview is provided on the unique strengths and skills of a comparative psychologist and how comparative psychology differs from other scientific disciplines interested in the behavior of animals. In addition, examples are provided on how comparative psychology can be applied to litigation in the pet industry. Information is also provided on the training of comparative psychologists and where comparative psychologists can be found.

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“…The possession of a nervous system is no longer a necessary condition of behaviour (Silvertown and Gordon 1989;Cahill 2015). Some (Cvrcková et al 2009(Cvrcková et al , 2016) now argue in favour of a pluralistic approach to plant activities, framed both in terms of the classical perspective of physiological mechanisms and of the biology of behaviour involving choices and decisions (Hodge 2009) in relation to the environment, without necessarily appealing to the mind, intelligence or conscience. 1 Behaviour is therefore understood here in a very particular biological sense that will have to be defined and that differs from the moral, psychological or social meaning of behaviour as seen from a human perspective.…”

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“…By no means does the use of this word imply involvement of a mind or consciousness. In our sense, flipping a metabolically or genetically wired switch also is a choice if its probability depends on outside stimuli and internal settings (previous history) of the biological system concerned" (Cvrcková et al 2016). evolutionary explanation.…”

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History and epistemology of plant behaviour: a pluralistic view?

Hiernaux

2019

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Some biologists now argue in favour of a pluralistic approach to plant activities, understandable both from the classical perspective of physiological mechanisms and that of the biology of behaviour involving choices and decisions in relation to the environment. However, some do not hesitate to go further, such as plant "neurobiologists" or philosophers who today defend an intelligence, a mind or even a plant consciousness in a renewed perspective of these terms. To what extent can we then adhere to pluralism in the study of plant behaviour? How does this pluralism in the study and explanation of plant behaviour fit into, or even build itself up, in a broader history of science? Is it a revolutionary way of rethinking plant behaviour in the twenty-first century or is it an epistemological extension of an older attitude? By proposing a synthesis of the question of plant behaviour by selected elements of the history of botany, the objective is to show that the current plant biology is not unified on the question of behaviour, but that its different tendencies are in fact part of a long botanical tradition with contrasting postures. Two axes that are in fact historically linked will serve as a common thread. 1. Are there several ways of understanding or conceiving plant behaviour within plant sciences and their epistemology? 2. Can the behaviour of a plant be considered in the same way as that of an animal? The working hypothesis defended in this article consists in showing that the current opposition between growth, development and reductionist physiology on the one hand and the biology of behaviour involving sensitivity and choices in plant activity (i.e. agency) on the other hand has been built up through the history of botany.

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Plant Studies May Lead Us to Rethink the Concept of Behavior

Cited by 25 publications

References 36 publications

The inevitability of plant behavior

The inevitability of plant behavior

Importance of Comparative Psychology in Pet Industry Litigation

History and epistemology of plant behaviour: a pluralistic view?

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