Aristotle on the cognition of future in non-human animals: sense-perception, phantasìa and imaginative projecton

Since Aristotle states more than one time that non-human animals have expectations about future, and since he denies that non-human animals have propositional attitudes (i.e., lògos) and maintains that their only cognitive powers are the sensory-perceptual ones, he is bound to admit that sensory-perceptual powers are, by themselves, a sufficient condition for expectations about future. I will here provide a tentative reconstruction of Aristotle’s theory on expectation about future in non-human animals, as it is deducible from his scanty remarks in the Parva naturalia, De anima and De motu animalium.