Reinhard BrandtYear of Publication: 2009 Are Animals Capable of Thought?
The age old question of whether animals are capable of thought has yet to be answered convincingly. This is due to the unresolved issue of what exactly counts as »thought« and how humans came to be capable of it.
The oldest answers involved a god or divine language creator that endowed humans with the gift of speech. These answers were countered with a naturalistic theory for genesis of...