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Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds: A Cognitive Historical Analysis

Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds: A Cognitive Historical Analysis

Wagschal, Steven

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Iberic

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1487503326
ISBN13: 9781487503321
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Nov 23 2018
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to conceptualize the minds of animals in ways that reflect their own uses for the animal, the manner in which they interact with the animal, and the place in which the animal lives. Often this has little if anything to do with the actual cognitive abilities of the animal. However, occasionally early authors made surprisingly accurate assumptions about the thoughts and feelings of animals.

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