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Animais, homens e sensações segundo Descartes

My main purpose in this article is to analyze the extent to which Descartes is indeed commited to with the strong claim that, in the case of non-human animals, there are no sensations, but rather only movements of matter, and analyze to what extent his arguments in favor of this claim makes problematic the other claim to which he also seems to be committed, that is, that all human animals have sensations.

Sensations; Machines; Animals


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