TY - JOUR AU - Danón, Laura PY - 2019/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Animal Normativity JF - Phenomenology and Mind JA - Ph&Mind VL - IS - 17 SE - Section 3. Outside the Human Social World DO - 10.13128/pam-8035 UR - https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/8035 SP - 176-187 AB - <p>Many philosophers think that human animals are the only normative creatures. In this paper, I will not provide reasons against such a claim, but I will engage in a related task: delineating and comparing two deflationary accounts of what non-human animal normativity could consist in. One of them is based on Hannah Ginsborg’s notion of primitive normativity and the other on my conjecture that some creatures may have first-order robust “ought-thoughts”, composed by secondary representations about how things should be or about how one should act. Once I have sketched both models, I will focus on identifying some cognitive differences between creatures merely having primitive normativity and those also having robust ought-thoughts. Finally, I will draw a few tentative remarks on the kind of empirical evidence that would suggest that an animal has one or another of these two kinds of normativity.</p> ER -