Raúl Murcia is a doctoral student at the Universities of Tübingen and Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, working under the supervision of Professors Klaus Corcilius and Pierre-Marie Morel. He completed his Master's degree at the National University of Colombia.

His dissertation project, provisorily entitled Aristotle and Animal Decision, aims to rethink an interpretive assumption that several scholars have implicitly or explicitly imported into Aristotle's philosophical biology and theory of action, namely that animals exhibit cognitive processes reminiscent of decision making. The dissertation is structured in two parts. The first part explores which features of human voluntariness, if any, are transferable to the realm of animal voluntariness, and the philosophical stakes of such a transfer, e.g. whether animals are amenable to moral appraisal. The second part is devoted to exploring the impact of the preliminary zoological project announced in Hist An. I 6 on the information provided in Hist An. VIII-IX concerning character traits in general and animal intelligence in particular.

Contact

raul.murciastudent.uni-tuebingen.de