Descartes and his critics on passions and animals

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (5):773-796 (2022)
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Descartes’ theory of the passions has important connections to his view that nonhuman animals are automata. In this paper, I show how critics of animal automatism exploited these connections. I int...

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10.1080/09608788.2021.2024494

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