Table of Contents

Part 1: Entry into Language
1: Bringing up Kanzi
Kanzi: The Ape Who Crossed the Line
Would a Bonobo Learn Language
Mother and Child
Kanzi Had Been Keeping a Secret
Morning Exploits
Travels in the Forest
Evening Tours
Living with Kanzi
Theory of Mind
Syntax Grasped
What Kanzi Tells Us
Part 2: Theoretical and Philosophical Implications
2: Philosophical Preconceptions
The Cartesian Revolution
Praedicet Ergo Est

: It Predicts Therefore It Is
The Cartesian Mind as "Folk" Theorist
Cartesian Bifurcation versus Mechanist Continuity
Becoming a Person
The "Charm" of the Theory of Mind Thesis
The Cartesian Hierarchy of Psychological Concepts
The Ascent of Pan
"The Constitutional Uncertainty of the Mental"
3: Rhetorical Implications
"Sure, But Does He Really

Understand What We Say?"
Evaluating Metalinguistic Claims: Logical Prerequisites
The Commonsense Picture of Communication
Animal Research and the Scarlet Letter


The Epistemological Conception and Its Methodological Legacy
Methodological Reductivism
Methodological Operationalism
Metalanguage as Cultural Technique
4: Beyond Speciesism
Apes Have Language: So What?
Our Shared Heritage
Primal Man
Wholistic Intelligence
Hierarchical Intelligence
Language and Mind
Linguistics and the Innateness Conundrum
The Problem Posed by Kanzi and Alternative Resolutions
The Issue of Intentionality
Social Constructionism
The Perspectival Shift Driven by Kanzi
Quine's Dilemma and Locke's Puzzle
Why Kanzi Could Not be Ignored
The Malleability of the Nervous System
The Achievement of Meaning - with Language
The Achievement of Meaning Unbuttoned: The Emergence of the Social Contract
The New Lens: Moving beyond Speciesism
Notes
References
Index