Animal Rationality

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Fees are subject to change.This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. To all animals∵ Contents 10 Elevated Intentions and Common Forms (Pseudo-Peter of Spain) 78 11 Vague Particulars as Universals (Roger Bacon) 82 12 Universal Desire and Experience (John Buridan) 88 13 General Mental Representations (Peter of John Olivi) 95 Part 3xiii Preface from the very first moment was brilliant and this work has profited a lot from their advice and comments. Dominik Perler's colloquium at the Humboldt University was a stimulating place of intellectual exchange and the colloquium's participants who commented on various drafts of this book helped me to improve it a great deal. Many important suggestions I also owe to audiences at Berlin,

Everything but the Squeal: The Politics of Porcinity in the Livre des Propriétés des Choses

“…This somewhat contrarian approach aspires to a preposterous history, which is pre-posterous in the sense that it "endorses the present as a historical moment in the act of interpretation itself", thereby allowing one to learn from the object under scrutiny, Thirteenth-century theologians maintained varied and nuanced ideas about nonhuman capabilities, however. Though many thinkers did subscribe to the notion that nonhumans are incapable of reason, Oelze (2018) has demonstrated that the mediaeval debate about this topic was nuanced and complex as several thinkers did believe that nonhumans were capable of certain rational processes, such as reasoning, judging, or employing prudence. Likewise, Wei (2020) has recently argued that Parisian theologians enjoyed considerable freedom in exploring the boundary between humans and nonhumans as they saw fit, provided that they acknowledged humankind's unique capacity for reason.…”