Contents -- 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 -- 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 Uncertainly of the Mental" -- 3 Rhetorical Inclinations -- "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 -- Hierarehical Intelligence -- Language and Mind -- Linguistics and the Innatencss 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 Achievment of Meaning-with Language -- The Achievement of Meaning Unbuttoned: The Emergence of the Social Contract -- The New Lens: Moving beyond Speciesism -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V.

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