David McFarland

For the politician, see David McFarland (politician).

David McFarland (born Dec 31, 1938)

Professor McFarland is an ethologist and writer. He is a scientist specialising in the field of animal behaviour and more recently the broadening of this understanding to "artificial ethology", links to human AI and robotics.

He was educated at Leighton Park School, the Quaker school at Reading. He is a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.

He is the author of a number of leading and influential books including Animal Behaviour: Psychobiology, Ethology, and Evolution, and The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour. He is also the author of the Dictionary of Animal Behaviour, published by Oxford Paperback Reference in 2006.

Bibliography

Newest publications are listed first.

• Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds (Oxford University Press, USA, 2008), ISBN 978-0-19-921929-2
• Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (Oxford University Press, USA, 2006) ISBN 978-0-19-860721-2
• with co-editor Owen Holland Artificial Ethology (Oxford University Press, UK, 2001). ISBN 0-19-851057-8.
• Animal Behaviour : Psychology, Ethology and Evolution. (Pitman, 1985.) ISBN 0-273-02103-6

* Animal Behaviour: Psychobiology, Ethology and Evolution (Benjamin Cummings, 1998), ISBN 978-0-582-32732-0

• Intelligent Behavior in Animals and Robots (Complex Adaptive Systems) (The MIT Press, 1993), ISBN 978-0-262-13293-0
• Le comportement animal (French & European Pubns, 1990) ISBN 978-0-7859-7802-2
• Problems of Animal Behaviour (Harlow, Essex; New York: Longman Scientific & Technical, Wiley, 1989), ISBN 0-470-21209-8
• Oxford Companion to Animal Behavior (Oxford University Press, USA, 1982), ISBN 978-0-19-866120-7
• Quantitative ethology: The state space approach (Boston: Pitman, 1981), ISBN 0-273-08417-8
• Feedback Mechanisms in Animal Behaviour (London: Academic Press, 1971), ISBN 978-0-12-483850-5

External links

• Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds by David McFarland - TimesOnline
• Dictionary of Animal Behaviour - Oxford University Press
• David McFarland at LibraryThing
• Decision time for animals / Review of 'Problems of Animal Behaviour' by David McFarland - NewScientist (subscription required)
• Short biography at chapters.indigo.ca
• David McFarland: Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs - The Question of Alien Minds - review by Berel Dov Lerner, Western Galilee College, Israel