After decades of effort by some of our brightest human and non-human minds, there is still
little consensus on whether or not non-human animals understand anything about the …

The social brain hypothesis is a well-accepted and well-supported evolutionary theory of
enlarged brain size in the non-human primates. Nevertheless, it tends to emphasize an …

An argument that challenges the dominant" theory theory" and simulation theory approaches
to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much
read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations. By …

At least since Locke, philosophers and psychologists have usually held that concepts arise
out of sensory perceptions, thoughts are built from concepts, and language enables …

Philosophical attention to animals can be found in a wide range of texts throughout the
history of philosophy, including discussions of animal classification in Aristotle and Ibn Bâjja …

Theory of mind is said to be uniquely human. Is this statement justified? Thirty years of
research on a variety of species has produced differences in opinion, from unequivocal …

The Cognitive Revolution... was intended to bring “mind” back into the human sciences after
a long cold winter of objectivism.... Some critics, perhaps unkindly, argue that the new …

Highlights•We gave chimpanzees two novel tests of mindreading.•Chimpanzees
successfully use self-experience to predict what a competitor can see.•Apes thus show that …