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Tables of Contents for Minds of Their Own
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
vii
2
Acknowledgements
ix
1 NOT SIMPLY MACHINES
1
14
2 AWARENESS OF SELF AND OTHERS
15
40
Developing an awareness of self
16
7
Self-recognition in mirrors
23
8
Awareness of others
31
2
Following the direction of gaze of others and imitation
33
4
Awareness and communication
37
4
Teaching
41
1
Reading another's mind state
42
2
Deception
44
7
Intentionality
51
2
Suffering with others
53
2
3 MENTAL IMAGES, MEMORY AND INTELLIGENCE
55
35
Intelligence or `intelligences'
56
4
Versatility/adaptability
60
1
Problem solving and insight
61
7
Categorisation and concept formation
68
3
Memory abilities
71
4
Mental representations
75
1
Mental images of hidden objects
76
5
Tool using
81
7
What can we conclude?
88
2
4 EVOLVING A BRAIN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
90
40
Brain size and evolution
91
16
Evolution of the neocortex/isocortex
107
8
A leap in neocortical size with humans?
115
4
Lateralisation of the brain
119
10
What can we conclude?
129
1
5 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN AND MIND
130
35
The expanding brain
136
2
Standing on our hind limbs
138
4
Handedness
142
6
Tool using
148
5
Language
153
5
Mental representations and art
158
3
Society, superstitions and the hominid mind
161
2
What can we conclude?
163
2
6 FUTURE RESEARCH ON ANIMAL MINDS
165
16
Attitudes and the case for or against consciousness
166
5
Individuality and problems for testing
171
2
Learning from communication with other species
173
3
Asking an ape about its inner thoughts
176
2
Brain waves and molecules of the mind
178
1
Easy and hard problems of consciousness
179
2
7 THINKING, FEELING AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
181
15
Animals as individuals and identities lost
182
3
Do domestic animals have lesser minds?
185
1
Consciousness and animal welfare
186
4
Moving the barrier: The Great Ape Project
190
5
The future of thinking in animals
195
1
Further Reading
196
11
Index
207