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Excerpts from Washburn’s The Evidence of Mind

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This chapter includes Margaret Floy Washburn’s discussion of the basis of inferences about animal minds and her discussion of what it is like to be an amoeba.

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  1. School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Margaret Floy Washburn

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  1. Margaret Floy Washburn
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  2. Joel Katzav
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  1. University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Joel Katzav

  2. Department of Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

    Krist Vaesen

  3. Department of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA

    Dorothy Rogers

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Washburn, M.F., Edited by., Katzav, J. (2023). Excerpts from Washburn’s The Evidence of Mind. In: Katzav, J., Vaesen, K., Rogers, D. (eds) Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_18

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