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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Animal Minds"”.
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Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds
… to attributing humanlike capacities to non-human animals, particularly great apes, for reasons that are not based on compelling empirical or theoretical grounds. Mental faculties such as reason, agency, and theory of mind are widely seen as differing in kind from functionally analogous abilities …
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An Anscombean Approach to Animal Agency
… to deliver a plausible account of non-human animal agency (henceforth, animal agency). More specifically, it is an attempt to develop her account in a way that respects the Aristotelian insight that animals act in ways that differ, in certain fundamental respects, from the processes of growth …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Normativity and Representation in Kant's Theory of Cognition
… normative constraint: Kant holds that non-human animals can represent objects, suggesting that he endorses forms of ‘non-conceptual content’ that don’t depend on normative constraint. Chapter 1 explores the preconditions for representing objective temporal sequence, as outlined in the Second …
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
… capacity for getting a cognitive grip on other minds. I argue that respecting this separation makes sense of the two strands of usage and provides a useful division of labor. I argue that an internal meaning for “folk psychology” worth wanting must be specific enough to capture the phenomenon …