Animals and Cartesian Consciousness: Pardies vs. the Cartesians

The Cartesian view that animals are automata sparked a major controversy in early modern European philosophy. This paper studies an early contribution to this controversy. I provide an interpretation of an influential objection to Cartesian animal automatism raised by Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–167...

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Main Author: Evan Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aperio 2020-09-01
Series:Journal of Modern Philosophy
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Online Access:https://jmphil.org/article/id/2117/
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