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18Articulating Animals: Animals and Implicit Inferences in Brandom's WorkBetween the Species 14 (1): 3. 2011.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 in their inability to express implicit/explicit inferences: neither the pigeon nor the machine can “provid[e] reasons for making other moves in the language game.” I contest, however, that animals ar…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |