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    Animal Thoughts on Factory Farms: Michael Leahy, Language and Awareness of Death.Rebekah Humphreys - 2008 - Between the Species 13 (8):2.
    The idea that language is necessary for thought and emotion is a dominant one in philosophy. Animals have taken the brunt of this idea, since it is widely held that language is exclusively human. Michael Leahy makes a case against the moral standing of factory-farmed animals based on such ideas. His approach is Wittgensteinian: understanding is a thought process that requires language, which animals do not possess. But he goes further than this and argues that certain factory farming (...)
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  2. Animals, thoughts and concepts.Hans-Johann Glock - 2000 - Synthese 123 (1):35-104.
    There are three main positions on animalthought: lingualism denies that non-linguistic animalshave any thoughts; mentalism maintains that theirthoughts differ from ours only in degree, due totheir different perceptual inputs; an intermediateposition, occupied by common sense and Wittgenstein,maintains that animals can have thoughts of a simplekind. This paper argues in favor of an intermediateposition. It considers the most important arguments infavor of lingualism, namely those inspired byDavidson: the argument from the intensional nature ofthought (Section 1); the idea that thoughts involveconcepts (Sections (...)
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  3. Suspended animation : thoughts recovered from the memory of first entering the ex-Alumix Factory.Raqs Media Collective - 2009 - In Eva Ebersberger, Daniela Zyman & Thordis Arrhenius, Jorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust. Dist. By Art Publishers.
     
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    Animals, thoughts and concepts.Hans Johann Https://Orcidorg909X Glock - 2000 - .
    There are three main positions on animalthought: lingualism denies that non-linguistic animalshave any thoughts; mentalism maintains that theirthoughts differ from ours only in degree, due totheir different perceptual inputs; an intermediateposition, occupied by common sense and Wittgenstein,maintains that animals can have thoughts of a simplekind. This paper argues in favor of an intermediateposition. It considers the most important arguments infavor of lingualism, namely those inspired byDavidson: the argument from the intensional nature ofthought (Section 1); the idea that thoughts involveconcepts (Sections (...)
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    Animal thought exceeds language-of-thought.Angelica Kaufmann & Albert Newen - 2023 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e279.
    Quilty-Dunn et al. claim that all complex infant and animal reasoning implicate language-of-thought hypothesis (LOTH)-like structures. We agree with the authors that the mental life of animals can be explained in representationalist terms, but we disagree with their idea that the complexity of mental representations is best explained by appealing to abstract concepts, and instead, we explain that it doesn't need to.
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    Animal thoughts.Raimond Gaita - 1992 - Philosophical Investigations 15 (3):227-44.
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    Why the content of animal thought cannot be propositional.Mariela Aguilera - 2018 - Análisis Filosófico 38 (2):183-207.
    In “Steps toward Origins of Propositional Thought”, Burge claims that animals of different species are capable of making deductive inferences. According to Burge, that is why propositional thought is extended beyond the human mind to the minds of other kinds of creatures. But, as I argue here, the inferential capacities of animals do not guarantee a propositional structure. According to my argument, propositional content has predicates that might involve a quantificational structure. And the absence of this structure in (...)
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    Animal thought.Donald Gustafson - 1984 - Environmental Ethics 6 (3):275-276.
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  9. Significance, Emotions, and Objectivity: Some Limits of Animal Thought.Bennett W. Helm - 1994 - Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh
    Rationality is the constitutive ideal of the mental. Therefore it is important to understand the sort of rationality at issue here. It is often assumed that rationality just is instrumental rationality, but this leaves us with too thin a notion of desire: Desires centrally involve the notion of things mattering or being significant, for their objects must normally be worth pursuing to the subject. Such significance is simply unintelligible in terms of instrumental rationality. Consequently, understanding significance and its rational connections (...)
     
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    Thinking about animal thoughts.Donald R. Griffin - 1983 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (3):364-364.
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    Activist-Mothers Maybe, Sisters Surely? Black British Feminism, Absence and Transformation.Joan Anim-Addo - 2014 - Feminist Review 108 (1):44-60.
    This article, drawing on selected feminist magazines of the 1980s, particularly Feminist Arts News (FAN) and GEN, offers a textual ‘braiding’ of narratives to re-present a history of Black British feminism. I attempt to chart a history of Black British feminist inheritance while proposing the politics of (other)mothering as a politics of potential, pluralistic and democratic community building, where Black thought and everyday living carry a primary and participant role. The personal—mothering our children—is the political, affording a nurturing of (...)
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    Book Review of Animal Thought[REVIEW]S. F. Sapontzis - unknown
  13. Do Animals Engage in Conceptual Thought?Jacob Beck - 2012 - Philosophy Compass 7 (3):218-229.
    This paper surveys and evaluates the answers that philosophers and animal researchers have given to two questions. Do animals have thoughts? If so, are their thoughts conceptual? Along the way, special attention is paid to distinguish debates of substance from mere battles over terminology, and to isolate fruitful areas for future research.
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  14. Sellars, Animals, and Thought.Willem deVries - unknown - Problems From Sellars.
    an examination of Wilfrid Sellars position of the mental capacities of non-human animals.
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  15. Animals, consciousness, and I-thoughts.Rocco J. Gennaro - 2009 - In Robert W. Lurz, The Philosophy of Animal Minds. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 184--200.
    I argue that recent developments in animal cognition support the conclusion that HOT theory is consistent with animal consciousness. There seems to be growing evidence that many animals are indeed capable of having I-thoughts, including episodic memory, as well as have the ability to understand the mental states of others.
     
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  16. Do Nonhuman Animals Have a Language of Thought?Beck Jacob - 2017 - In Kristin Andrews & Jacob Beck, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. Routledge.
    Because we humans speak a public language, there has always been a special reason to suppose that we have a language of thought. For nonhuman animals, this special reason is missing, and the issue is less straightforward. On the one hand, there is evidence of various types of nonlinguistic representations, such as analog magnitude representations, which can explain many types of intelligent behavior. But on the other hand, the mere fact that some aspects of animal cognition can be (...)
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    Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity.Purushottama Bilimoria - 2018 - Sophia 57 (1):53-67.
    I wish to take up some of the sentiments we have towards animals and put them to test in respect of the claims to moral high grounds in Indian thought-traditions vis-à-vis Abrahamic theologies. And I do this by turning the focus in this instance—on a par with issues of caste, gender, minority status, albeit still within the human community ambience—to the question of animals. Which leads me to ask how sophisticated and in-depth is the appreciation of the issues and (...)
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  18. Animal philosophy: essential readings in continental thought.Matthew Calarco & Peter Atterton (eds.) - 2004 - New York: Continuum.
    Animal Philosophy is the first text to look at the place and treatment of animals in Continental thought.
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    Animal Faith and Spiritual Life, Previously Unpublished and Collected Writings by George Santayana with Critical Essays on His Thoughts. Edited by John Lachs.George Santayana & John Lachs - 1967 - Appleton-Century-Crofts.
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  20. Thought and language: on the line of demarcation between animal and human abilities.Dfm Strauss - 1994 - South African Journal of Philosophy 13 (4):175-182.
     
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    Putting thought in accordance with things: the demise of animal-based analogies for plant functions.Miles Barker - 2002 - Science & Education 11 (3):293-304.
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  22. (1 other version)Thought, language, and animals.Hans-Johann Glock - 1986 - In Abraham Zvie Bar-On, Grazer Philosophische Studien. Distributed in the U.S.A. By Humanities Press. pp. 139-160.
    This paper discusses Wittgenstein's ideas about the relation between thought, neurophysiology and language, and about the mental capacities of non-linguistic animals. It deals with his initial espousal and later rejection of a 'language of thought', his arguments against the idea that thought requires a medium of images or words, his reasons for resisting the encephalocentric conception of the mind which dominates contemporary philosophy of mind, his mature views about the connection between thought and language, and his (...)
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    Thought, Language, and Animals.Hans Johann Glock - 2006 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 71 (1):139.
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    Why are perfect animals, hybrids, and monsters food for symbolic thought?Dan Sperber - unknown
    not only anomalous animals, but also exemplary animals often take on a symbolic value, thus raising a second problem. A solution to both problems is suggested, based on an examination of the cognitive..
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  25. Re-animating the place of thought: Transformations of spatial and temporal description in the twenty-first century.Nigel Thrift - 2008 - In Ash Amin & Joanne Roberts, Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization. Oxford University Press. pp. 90--119.
     
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    Animal Faith and Spiritual Life, Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by George Santayana with Critical Essays on His Thought[REVIEW]K. T. A. - 1969 - Review of Metaphysics 22 (3):581-582.
    The editor has arranged forty-nine essays on and by Santayana into eight chapters representing major areas of Santayana's thought such as "Materialism and Idealism," "Essence, Substance, and Existence," "Art and Beauty." The essays supposedly speak to their chapter titles and to each other to create "the sense of dialogue"; with a few exceptions they were not written as deliberate conversation. This "dialogue" treats the reader to a fine display of the variety of minds and interests at work in philosophy (...)
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    "Thoughtful Brutes: The ascription of mental predicatest to animals in Locke¿ s" essay".Kathleen Squadrito - 1991 - Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 26 (58):63-74.
  28. Thoughts from France on the animal-human borderline : Derrida and animal rights philosophers.Judith Still - 2019 - In Irving Goh, French Thought and Literary Theory in the Uk. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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    Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal–culture interface.Roy F. Baumeister & E. J. Masicampo - 2010 - Psychological Review 117 (3):945-971.
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    Animal souls, metempsychosis, and theodicy in seventeenth-century English thought.Peter Harrison - 0081 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (4):519-544.
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    Animals, Ethics, and Process Thought: Hierarchy without Anthroparchy.Brian G. Henning - 2013 - Process Studies 42 (2):221-239.
    Hierarchical views of nature have for centuries been used to justify the enslaving of peoples perceived as inferior, the often violent and coercive “reeducation” of indigenous peoples, the patriarchal subjugation of women, the cruel use of nonhuman animals for often trivial purposes, and the wanton destruction of the natural world. I join those who condemned the oppressive nature of these forms of hierarchical thinking. Yet, I fear that, in their effort to right past wrongs, too many thinkers are in danger (...)
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    Impious dogs, haughty foxes and exquisite fish: evaluative perception and interpretation of animals in ancient and medieval Mediterranean thought.Tristan Schmidt & Johannes Pahlitzsch (eds.) - 2019 - Berlin: De Gruyter.
    This volume is dedicated to the topic of the human evaluation and interpretation of animals in ancient and medieval cultures. From a transcultural perspective contributions from Assyriology, Byzantine Studies, Classical Archaeology, Egyptology, German Medieval Studies and Jewish History look into the processes and mechanisms behind the transfer by people of certain values to animals, and the functions these animal-signs have within written, pictorial and performative forms of expression.
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    Thoughts out of Season on the History of Animal Ethics.Rod Preece - 2007 - Society and Animals 15 (4):365-378.
    Contrary to conventional wisdom, the earlier Western tradition did not customarily deny souls per se to nonhuman animals; when it denied immortal souls to animals, it sometimes deemed that denial a reason for giving greater consideration to animals in their earthly existence. Nor has the Western tradition uniformly deemed animals intended for human use. Further, there was considerable opposition to the Cartesian view of animals as insentient machines, and—even among those who were convinced—it was not unknown for them to deem (...)
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  34. Scepticism and animal rationality: the fortune of Chrysippus' dog in the history of western thought.Luciano Floridi - 1997 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 79 (1):27-57.
    This paper employs the metaphor of hunting to discuss intellectual investigation. Drawing on the example of Chrysippus’ dog, an animal whose behaviour supposedly reflects disjunctive syllogistic reasoning, the article traces the history of thought. It concludes by summarizing the contribution of Chrysippus’ dog to the fields of literature, philosophy and the visual arts. -/- .
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    Some thoughts on the proper foundations for the study of cognition in animals.Lynn Nadel - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):383-384.
  36. Higher-order thoughts, animal consciousness, and misrepresentation: A reply to Carruthers and Levine.Rocco J. Gennaro - 2004 - In Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology. John Benjamins.
  37. Animal moral psychologies.Susana Monsó & Kristin Andrews - 2022 - In Manuel Vargas & John Doris, The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
    Observations of animals engaging in apparently moral behavior have led academics and the public alike to ask whether morality is shared between humans and other animals. Some philosophers explicitly argue that morality is unique to humans, because moral agency requires capacities that are only demonstrated in our species. Other philosophers argue that some animals can participate in morality because they possess these capacities in a rudimentary form. Scientists have also joined the discussion, and their views are just as varied as (...)
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    Postmodern Animal.Steve Baker - 2000 - Reaktion Books.
    In The Postmodern Animal, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys and other significant (...)
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    The animal side.Jean Christophe Bailly - 2011 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals' ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poets have tried to name by speaking of the Open. Beginning with the story of an encounter with a (...)
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    Higher-order thoughts, animal.Rocco I. Gennaro - 2004 - In Rocco J. Gennaro, Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology. John Benjamins. pp. 56--45.
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    “Unnatural” thoughts? On moral enhancement of the human animal.Norman K. Swazo - 2017 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 20 (3):299-310.
    Recent discussions about moral enhancement presuppose and recommend sets of values that relate to both the Western tradition of moral philosophy and contemporary empirical results of natural and social sciences, including moral psychology. It is argued here that this is a typology of thought that requires a fundamental interrogation. Proponents of moral enhancement do not account for important critical analyses of moral discourse, beginning with that of Friedrich Nietzsche and continuing with more prominent twentieth century thinkers such as the (...)
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  42. Animal Mind: Science, Philosophy, and Ethics.Bernard E. Rollin - 2007 - The Journal of Ethics 11 (3):253-274.
    Although 20th-century empiricists were agnostic about animal mind and consciousness, this was not the case for their historical ancestors – John Locke, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and, of course, Charles Darwin and George John Romanes. Given the dominance of the Darwinian paradigm of evolutionary continuity, one would not expect belief in animal mind to disappear. That it did demonstrates that standard accounts of how scientific hypotheses are overturned – i.e., by empirical disconfirmation or by exposure (...)
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    Animals and Their People: Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies.Anna Barcz & Dorota Łagodzka (eds.) - 2018 - Boston: Brill.
    In _Animals and Their People_, editors Anna Barcz and Dorota Łagodzka present a collection of texts providing a zoocentric insight into philosophical, artistic, and literary issues in Anglo-American and Central-Eastern European thought.
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    The place of animals in human thought.Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco - 1909 - London [etc.]: T. F. Unwin.
    Preface. -- I. Soul-wandering as it concerns animals. -- II. The Greek conception of animals. -- III. Animals at Rome. -- IV. Plutarch the humane. -- V. Man and his brother. -- VI. The faith of Iran. -- VII. Zoroastrian zoology. -- VIII. A religon of ruth. -- IX. Lines from the Adi Granth. -- X. The Hebrew conception of animals. -- XI. "A people like unto you." -- XII. The friend of the creature. XIII. Versipelles. -- XIV. The horse (...)
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    An introduction to animals and political theory.Alasdair Cochrane - 2010 - New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Introduction : animals and political theory -- Animals in the history of political thought -- Utilitarianism and animals -- Liberalism and animals -- Communitarianism and animals -- Marxism and animals -- Feminism and animals.
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    Animal century: a celebration of changing attitudes to animals.Mark Gold - 1998 - Charlbury, Oxfordshire: J. Carpenter.
    Animal Century records some of the most important events and influences behind this often overlooked element of our social history, paying tribute to the courage and endurance that has helped to create a groundswell of public sympathy for our fellow creatures in many countries of the world. Mark Gold's moving and thought-provoking account includes in-depth previously unpublished interviews with many key players - including Maneka Gandhi, Jane Goodall, Celia Hammond, Virginia McKenna and Peter Singer - and celebrates the (...)
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    The Animal Ethic Thoughts in the Eastern and Western Religions and Their Resource Significance.Zhang Yan, Fu Tongtao & Yang Weirong - 2020 - International Journal of Philosophy 8 (2):38.
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  48. Nonhuman Animals: Not Necessarily Saints or Sinners.C. E. Abbate - 2014 - Between the Species 17 (1):1-30.
    Higher-order thought theories maintain that consciousness involves the having of higher-order thoughts about mental states. In response to these theories of consciousness, an attempt is often made to illustrate that nonhuman animals possess said consciousness, overlooking an alarming consequence: attributing higher-order thought to nonhuman animals might entail that they should be held morally accountable for their actions. I argue that moral responsibility requires more than higher-order thought: moral agency requires a specific higher-order thought which concerns a (...)
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  49. Animals in Classical and Late Antique Philosophy.Stephen R. L. Clark - 2011 - In L. Beauchamp Tom & R. G. Frey, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press USA.
    A description and analysis of attitudes to non-human animals in classical and late antique Mediterranean thought.
     
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    "Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal–culture interface": Correction to Baumeister and Masicampo (2010).Roy F. Baumeister & E. J. Masicampo - 2010 - Psychological Review 117 (4):1298-1298.
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