Dogs and Concepts

@article{Crary2012DogsAC,
  title={Dogs and Concepts},
  author={Alice Crary},
  journal={Philosophy},
  year={2012},
  volume={87},
  pages={215 - 237}
}
Abstract This article is a contribution to discussions about the prospects for a viable conceptualism, i.e., a viable view that represents our modes of awareness as conceptual all the way down. The article challenges the assumption, made by friends as well as foes of conceptualism, that a conceptualist stance necessarily commits us to denying animals minds. Its main argument starts from the conceptualist doctrine defended in the writings of John McDowell. Although critics are wrong to represent… 
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