Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds: A Cognitive Historical Analysis

by Steven Wagschal

Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to conceptualize the minds of animals in ways that reflect their own uses for the animal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487503326
• ISBN13: 9781487503321
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher