Dauler Wilson, Margaret:
"For They Do not Agree in Nature with Us" : Spinoza on the Lower Animals

In: New essays on the rationalists  / Edited by Rocco J. Gennaro and Charles Huenemann. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1999: 336-352.

Other editions / translations: Erneut/again in: Wilson (1999)

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Philosophy of nature, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind
Subject: E, TIE
Subject (individuals): Descartes, René ; Lloyd, Geneviewe

Autopsy: yes
English commentary: Spinoza's "explicit attribution of sentience and affects to brutes is grounded in his general panpsychism, rather than any particularities in their bodies and behavior. In this important aspect his position can hardly be seen as an antecedent of contemporary interest in animal cognition, bound up as that interest tends to be with evolutionary, ethological "and behavioral approaches" (p. 348).

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