Thinking About Dogs With The Grown-Ups

Thinking About Dogs With The Grown-Ups

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Autonomous animals

Autonomous animals

Can dogs really exercise autonomy?

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Emma Lee
Nov 23, 2023
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In the last two posts, I’ve looked at why animals (including humans?! If you’re Robert Sapolsky or Baruch Spinoza or a whole bunch of other people) don’t really have free will or choice in any meaningful sense. Do read them first, by the way!

There just isn’t much room for it in among all the other things like being a mammal, being a dog…

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