Animal Cognition in Aristotle

Connell, Sophia M.

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“…Sobre esta cuestión del sexismo Connell (2021) recoge la siguiente cita de Aristóteles "por un lado, en todos los animales que se desplazan, la hembra está separada del macho, y la hembra es un animal y el macho otro; por otro lado, son iguales en especie (eidos), por ejemplo, ambos son ser humano o caballo." (GA 1.23.730b33-731a1) (p. 143).…”

Section: ¿Antropocentrismo Y Sexismo En Aristóteles?unclassified

“…La obra aristotélica muestra diversidad de capacidades cognitivas que compartimos con los animales no humanos. Connell (2021) estudia en detalle las diferencias cognitivas entre humanos y animales no humanos en Aristóteles. La autora observa como con frecuencia se cita a Aristóteles como autor que diferencia tajantemente la capacidad cognitiva y el modo de vida del hombre y el animal.…”

Section: Hombre Y Animales Comparten Múltiples Capacidades Cognitivasunclassified

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Teoría Del Cuerpo Humano en Aristóteles. Su Biología Y Filosofía Tal Como Aparece en De Partibus Animalium

López

2023

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Toda la biología de Aristóteles es teleológica, esencialista, individualista, organicista y no evolucionista. Estos principios de explicación del ser vivo son aplicados por Aristóteles al cuerpo humano. La capacidad de pensar del ser humano determina la forma de su cuerpo y sus características: liberación del peso de la parte superior, manos y brazos con características especiales, nalgas carnosas y musculosas que le permiten estar de pie y sentado, piernas con músculos para estar de pie, senos en la parte delantera gracias a la liberación de la función de sustentación de los miembros superiores y que permiten proteger el tórax y sus órganos vitales, ausencia de cola que permite estar sentado, pies de mayor tamaño en comparación con los animales para facilitar la bipedestación y la marcha. Por ello, el cuerpo humano no aparece realmente como modelo para el cuerpo de los animales sino como contrapartida, ya que lo que determina la forma de todo cuerpo vivo es su función (ergon) o forma de vivir, y la del ser humano para Aristóteles es vivir pensando, algo privativo del hombre, aunque comparta muchas otras capacidades cognitivas con los animales. Así, el deporte, en sus movimientos, es manifestación genuinamente humana y del pensamiento.

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Teoría Del Cuerpo Humano en Aristóteles. Su Biología Y Filosofía Tal Como Aparece en De Partibus Animalium

López

2023

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“…It happens, on account of this prudence, that they provide storehouses for themselves.’ Albertus Magnus This argument may be a distillation from Albertus' 20 years of study of Aristotle's scattered writings on memory. More recently, Connell (2021) has brought together Aristotle's thoughts on animal cognition.…”

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“…This argument may be a distillation from Albertus' 20 years of study of Aristotle's scattered writings on memory. More recently, Connell (2021) has brought together Aristotle's thoughts on animal cognition.…”

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An ‘instinct for learning’: the learning flights and walks of bees, wasps and ants from the 1850s to now

Collett

Ibarra

2023

Journal of Experimental Biology

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The learning flights and walks of bees, wasps and ants are precisely coordinated movements that enable insects to memorise the visual surroundings of their nest or other significant places such as foraging sites. These movements occur on the first few occasions that an insect leaves its nest. They are of special interest because their discovery in the middle of the 19th century provided perhaps the first evidence that insects can learn and are not solely governed by instinct. Here, we recount the history of research on learning flights from their discovery to the present day. The first studies were conducted by skilled naturalists and then, over the following 50 years, by neuroethologists examining the insects’ learning behaviour in the context of experiments on insect navigation and its underlying neural mechanisms. The most important property of these movements is that insects repeatedly fixate their nest and look in other favoured directions, either in a preferred compass direction, such as North, or towards preferred objects close to the nest. Nest facing is accomplished through path integration. Memories of views along a favoured direction can later guide an insect's return to its nest. In some ant species, the favoured direction is adjusted to future foraging needs. These memories can then guide both the outward and homeward legs of a foraging trip. Current studies of central areas of the insect brain indicate what regions implement the behavioural manoeuvres underlying learning flights and the resulting visual memories.

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Aristotle on Thumos

Marechal

2024

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind

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This chapter argues that Aristotelian thumos is a non-reducible mental phenomenon that plays a central role in Aristotle’s theory of the mind, motivation, and action. For Aristotle, thumos is not, as others have argued, a desire for the noble, social appraisal, or retaliation; rather, it is an inner drive or impulse to act. More precisely, it is an executory urge to implement or enact one’s ends or goals, whatever they are. Thumos accounts for someone’s proneness to spring into action and can contribute to bringing about rational or non-rational first-order desires. It is a second-order motivation, which both human and non-human animals have and that comes in degrees: we can be more or less thumotic, which amounts to being more or less disposed to making first-order desires effective so that they issue in actions. Aristotelian thumos, then, anticipates features of the modern notion of the will.

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Animal Cognition in Aristotle

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Teoría Del Cuerpo Humano en Aristóteles. Su Biología Y Filosofía Tal Como Aparece en De Partibus Animalium

Teoría Del Cuerpo Humano en Aristóteles. Su Biología Y Filosofía Tal Como Aparece en De Partibus Animalium

An ‘instinct for learning’: the learning flights and walks of bees, wasps and ants from the 1850s to now

Aristotle on Thumos

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