Delays

Another batch of marking - or rather re-marking (someone else's I hasten to add, not my own) - has arrived from the IBO so I'm again and unexpectedly up to my neck in TOK essays, which has delayed progress on my latest foray into the world of philosophising. I am writing an essay on Descartes' view of animals. Was he really a brute - vivisectionist and deaf to the cries of 'automata' who he believed could feel no pain - or is he misunderstood and misrepresented?

I keep meaning to post my Kant essay here too... will do soon.