Wittgenstein y la atribución de estados mentales a animales no humanos: enfoque de las habilidades o contextualismo de la forma de vida.

Abstract

I discuss two alternative versions of the later Wittgenstein’s position on the attribution of psychological concepts to non-human animals: the “abilities’ approach” (Glock 2017) and the “form of life contextualism” (von Savigny 2016). I then use these construals as frameworks in which to interpret recent research in animal cognition. Section I introduces the exegetical problem and the next sections present each one of the approaches (sections II and III). Section IV claims that one should complement both perspectives, and Section V makes use of the Wittgensteinian frame to understand the way in which recent scientific research on animal cognition develops its explanatory hypotheses.