Sam Alma

Graduate Student in History of Philosophy, Groningen University, The Netherlands

Sam Alma is a graduate student focusing on biological and metaphysical themes in the history of philosophy at Groningen University in the Netherlands.

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Medieval manuscript illustration of a goat and a person holding a disc, with gold circles in the background, surrounded by text in Latin script.

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Philosophy of mind

The problem of erring animals

Three medieval thinkers struggled to explain how animals could make mistakes – and uncovered the nature of nonhuman minds

Sam Alma