Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds?
In our daily lives, we attribute emotions to non-human animals. However,the ontological commitments this implies are still in discussion. Particularly,philosophers still debate whether considerations about the mechanisms un-derlying emotions are necessary or not to attribute emotions to non-humanani...
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| description | In our daily lives, we attribute emotions to non-human animals. However,the ontological commitments this implies are still in discussion. Particularly,philosophers still debate whether considerations about the mechanisms un-derlying emotions are necessary or not to attribute emotions to non-humananimals. Here, I argue that such considerations are not sufficient, and that afunctionalist perspective is more fruitful than its main contender, the homo-logy thinking view. To do this, I consider findings from experimental psy-chology on emotion attribution to non-human animals and distinguish twoquestions concerning such emotions. I then discuss functionalism and ho-mology thinking, claiming that homology thinking precludes promising em-pirical hypotheses from the outset, resulting in a more limited position thanfunctionalism. Hence, functionalism inherits many benefits of homologythinking while providing more productive grounds.
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| spelling | doaj-art-aa10e4cd04da43c19a6cc4a921e7cf4b2025-08-20T03:14:28ZengUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)Perspectiva Filosófica0104-64542357-99862022-12-0149510.51359/2357-9986.2022.256754Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds?Juan R. Loaiza0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0570-3832Universidad del Rosario in BogotáIn our daily lives, we attribute emotions to non-human animals. However,the ontological commitments this implies are still in discussion. Particularly,philosophers still debate whether considerations about the mechanisms un-derlying emotions are necessary or not to attribute emotions to non-humananimals. Here, I argue that such considerations are not sufficient, and that afunctionalist perspective is more fruitful than its main contender, the homo-logy thinking view. To do this, I consider findings from experimental psy-chology on emotion attribution to non-human animals and distinguish twoquestions concerning such emotions. I then discuss functionalism and ho-mology thinking, claiming that homology thinking precludes promising em-pirical hypotheses from the outset, resulting in a more limited position thanfunctionalism. Hence, functionalism inherits many benefits of homologythinking while providing more productive grounds. https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/perspectivafilosofica/article/view/256754Non-human emotionsfunctionalismhomology thinkingmultiple realization |
| spellingShingle | Juan R. Loaiza Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds? Perspectiva Filosófica Non-human emotions functionalism homology thinking multiple realization |
| title | Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds? |
| title_full | Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds? |
| title_fullStr | Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds? |
| title_short | Non-human animal emotions: homological or functional kinds? |
| title_sort | non human animal emotions homological or functional kinds |
| topic | Non-human emotions functionalism homology thinking multiple realization |
| url | https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/perspectivafilosofica/article/view/256754 |
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