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The Structure of Animal Cognition
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Denis Buehler & DE VIGNEMONT Frédérique
Nonhuman animal action shares fundamental features with human action. Bees, pigs and pigeons, just as humans, move, orient themselves with respect to their environment, set goals according to internal preferences and do all the above thanks to a variety of hierarchically related behavioral systems. Neurophysiology, ethology, and sensorimotor psychology provide a rich theoretical framework for understanding animal action. Unfortunately, philosophy of action and agency has mostly been indifferent to these theoretical advances. Nonhuman animal action has long been considered to belong to a completely different kind from human action, and the few works that challenge this view still adopt an intellectualistic stance on animal action. This dissertation intends to offer an empirically informed account of animal action. It intends to do so from the privileged perspective of insect behavior and cognition.