Are Apes’ Responses to Pointing Gestures Intentional?

This paper examines the meaningfulness of pointing in great apes. We appeal to Hannah Ginsborg’s conception of primitive normativity, which provides an adequate criterion for establishing whether a response is meaningful, and we attempt to make room for a conception according to which there is no fu...

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Main Authors: Olivia Sultanescu, Kristin Andrews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente 2018-06-01
Series:Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
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Online Access:http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/150