Alexander Pruss's Blog

Animalism holds that we are animals. This is a pretty common-sense view. We are clearly mammals, and mammals are animals. However, there is...

Suppose a dog lives forever. Assuming the dog stays roughly dog-sized, there is only a finite number of possible configurations of the dog’s...

Our canine pets are primary bearers of their mental states. Our canine pets are higher mammals. So, some higher mammals are primary bearer...