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René Descartes: "Animals Are Machines"
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This presentation details some of the consequences of Descartes's proposition that animals are machines and similar views of animals during the Enlightenment and beyond. WARNING: This Powerpoint contains explicit imagery of cruelty to animals.
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René Descartes:“Animals Are Machines”
Mechanical Duck (Reconstruction)Jacques de Vaucanson, 1709
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air PumpJoseph Wright, 1768
A Physiological Demonstration with Vivisection of a DogEmile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832
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