Animals and humans, thinking and nature
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (1) (2005)
| Abstract | Studies that compare human and animal behaviour suspend prejudices about mind, body and their relation, by approaching thinking in terms of behaviour. Yet comparative approaches typically engage another prejudice, motivated by human social and bodily experience: taking the lone animal as the unit of comparison. This prejudice informs Heidegger’s and Merleau-Ponty’s comparative studies, and conceals something important: that animals moving as a group in an environment can develop new sorts of “sense.” The study of animal group-life suggests a new way of thinking about the creation of sense, about the body, the brain, and the relation between thinking and nature | |||||||||
| Keywords | animal cognition embodiment Merleau-Ponty Heidegger nature | |||||||||
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