⁶⁴ For a clarification of Descartes’s position see John Cottingham, ‘Descartes’ Treatment of Animals’, in Cottingham (ed.), Descartes, 225–33, and Tom Sorell, Descartes Reinvented (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 149–60. Sorell’s book is in part a rehabilitation of Descartes in the face of what one might call ideological critiques.