Meditations on Ortega y Gasset's Opaque Dogs: Hunting with Dogs as Inter-Species Affective Scaffolding.

This paper interprets Ortega y Gasset's Meditations on Hunting (1972) through the concept of cognitive scaffolding in order to analyse the relationship between hunter and hunting dog as a form of inter-species distributed cognitive system. In recreational hunting, the hunter and the dog engage in a...

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Publicado en:Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 583 - 598
Autores principales: du Toit, Jean, Swer, Gregory Morgan
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Publicado: Springer Nature May2025
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          https://ror.org/0184vwv17 Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
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