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Tables of Contents for Apes, Language, and the Human Mind
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part I Entry into Language
Bringing up Kanzi
3
74
Kanzi: The Ape Who Crossed the Line
7
4
Would A Bonobo Learn Language?
11
8
Mother and Child
19
3
Kanzi Had Been Keeping a Secret
22
5
Morning Exploits
27
9
Travels in the Forest
36
8
Evening Tours
44
2
Living with Kanzi
46
9
Theory of Mind
55
10
Syntax Grasped
65
8
What Kanzi Tells Us
73
4
Part II Theoretical and Philosophical Implications
Philosophical Preconceptions
77
62
The Cartesian Revolution
79
5
Praedicet Ergo Est: It Predicts Therefore It Is
84
6
The Cartesian Mind as ``Folk'' Theorist
90
4
Cartesian Bifurcation versus Mechanist Continuity
94
5
Becoming a Person
99
6
The ``Charm'' of the Theory of Mind Thesis
105
8
The Cartesian Hierarchy of Psychological Concepts
113
6
The Ascent of Pan
119
9
``The Constitutional Uncertainty of the Mental''
128
11
Rhetorical Inclinations
139
42
``Sure, But Does He Really Understand What We Say?''
139
2
Evaluating Metalinguistic Claims: Logical Prerequisites
141
6
The Commonsense Picture of Communication
147
3
Animal Research and the Scarlet Letter
150
3
The Epistemological Conception and Its Methodological Legacy
153
4
Methodological Reductivism
157
6
Methodological Operationalism
163
8
Metalanguage as Cultural Technique
171
10
Beyond Speciesism
181
48
Apes Have Language: So What?
181
1
Our Shared Heritage
181
2
Primal Man
183
4
Wholistic Intelligence
187
1
Hierachical Intelligence
188
2
Language and Mind
190
2
Linguistics and the Innateness Conundrum
192
2
The Problem Posed by Kanzi and Alternative Resolutions
194
1
The Issue of Intentionality
195
3
Social Constructionism
198
1
The Perspectival Shift Driven by Kanzi
199
2
Quine's Dilemma and Locke's Puzzle
201
5
Why Kanzi Could Not be Ignored
206
2
The Malleability of the Nervous System
208
6
The Achievment of Meaning-with Language
214
4
The Achievement of Meaning Unbuttoned: The Emergence of the Social Contract
218
7
The New Lens: Moving beyond Speciesism
225
4
Notes
229
4
References
233
8
Index
241