Beastly Thoughts: ancient and modern views on animal minds
Monima Chadha, Fiona Leigh, John Bigelow, Dirk Baltzly, Aubrey Townsend. Monash Arts Faculty Research Initiatives, 2003.
The central aim of the project is to rework current philosophical claims about what counts as mindful and why in the light of recent research in cognitive ethology and ancient Greek views of the mind. The enquiry focuses on recent empirical research in the light of the general framework Aristotle develops for attribution of a mental state or activity. The Aristotelian framework is empirically based and is expected to be applicable to the results by cognitive ethologists. We believe that the unique combination of recent research in cognitive ethology and the history of philosophy will force contemporary philosophers to rethink and redefine the basic concepts of a theory of mind. Our papers will reflect the growing expertise in the philosophy of mind at Monash.