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Human Minds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

David Papineau
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Humans are part of the animal kingdom, but their minds differ from those of other animals. They are capable of many things that lie beyond the intellectual powers ofthe rest of the animal realm. In this paper, I want to ask what makes human minds distinctive. What accounts for the special powers that set humans aside from other animals?

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 53 , September 2003 , pp. 159 - 183
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2003

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