Kant and Animals

This volume is devoted entirely to exploring the role of animals in the thought of Immanuel Kant. Leading scholars address questions regarding the possibility of objective representation and intentionality in animals, the role of animals in Kant's scientific picture of nature, the status of our moral responsibilities to animals' welfare, and more.

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10.4 Distinguishing Animacy, Perception, and Consciousness

Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Notes on Sources and Translations -- Introduction: Kant and Other Animals: An Overview -- Animals in Kant's Theoretical Philosophy -- Animals in Kant's Practical Philosophy -- I. Theoretical Philosophy -- 1. The Comparison of Animals -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Bayle and the Soul of Brutes -- 1.3 Locke on Comparison -- 1.4 Helvétius and Rousseau on Comparison and Judgment -- 1.5 Kant, the Ox, and the Stable Door -- 1.6 The Shadow of Reason -- 2. Animals and Objectivity

2.1 The Problem of Objectivity -- 2.2 Some Varieties of Objectivity -- 2.3 Objectivity and Relation to an Object -- 2.4 Objectivity and Correctness -- 3. What Do Animals See? Intentionality, Objects, and Kantian Nonconceptualism -- 3.1 Three Questions about the Status of Animals within Kant's Theoretical Philosophy -- 3.2 Objective: Two Initial Models of Objectivity -- 3.3 Intentionality: Relationalism, Representationalism, and Animal Experience -- 3.4 Intuition: Spatial Awareness and Intuitive Particulars -- 4. Kant on Nonhuman Animals and God -- 4.1 Introduction

4.2 Animal orders from the human point…