Articulating Animals: Animals and Implicit Inferences in Bramdom's Work.
Brandom denies animals implicit reasoning by emphasizing their inability to make inferences explicit, and in so doing, denigrates animals by likening their behavior to that of machines and artifacts. With disturbing regularity and ease, Brandom equates pigeons and parrots to machines and thermostats...
| Publicado en: | Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy & Animals Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 40 - 57 |
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