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Padrón focuses our attention on the animality in SAF. He shows how the fact that we are descended from other animals with similar capacities is central to both Santayana’s earlier and later philosophy and how our animality plays a pivotal role in Santayana’s treatment of scepticism.
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Padrón, C. (2024). Fumbling Toward the Animal in “Animal Faith”. In: Coleman, M.A., Tiller, G. (eds) The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith. Palgrave Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46367-9_14
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