Can animals think? In this paper I address the proposal that many animals,
including insects such as honeybees, have genuine thoughts. I consider one
prominent version of this view (Carruthers 2004; 2006) that claims that
honeybees can represent and process information about their environments
in a way that satisfies the main hallmarks of human conceptual
thought. I shall argue, however, that this view fails to provide convincing
grounds for accepting that animals possess concepts. More precisely, I
suggest that two important aspects of conceptual thought, viz., concept
individuation and the generality constraint, are not satisfied