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The question of whether animals possess minds - and if so, what kind of minds they possess - has occupied philosophers since antiquity, but it is only in the past half-century that the discussion has acquired the empirical grounding necessary to make it something more than an exercise in speculative metaphysics. The…

• What has changed the debate about animal consciousness in recent decades?
• What fundamental limitation does Nagel's argument identify?