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1 | Newman, Lex | Unmasking Descartes's case for the bete machine doctrine | Among the more notorious of Cartesian doctrines is the bete machine doctrine -- the view that brute animals lack not only reason, but any form of consciousness (having no mind or soul). Recent English commentaries have served to obscure, rather than to clarify, the historical Descartes's views, Stan... | Animals; Intelligence; Soul; Mechanical causation | 2001 |