Many Minds are No Worse than One
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American Philosophical Quarterly | Vol. 50 No. 3 | ARTICLE: Peter Carruthers: Animal Minds Are Real, (Distinctively) Human Minds Are Not | PDF Document
Many philosophers think that human and animal minds are radically different from one another. Either they differ architecturally, in such a way that only humans have genuine concepts and propositional attitudes (while animals at best have proto-concepts and proto-attitudes), or humans possess a second mind (a conscious System 2 mind) that nonhuman animals lack. This article will argue that both...
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