Can infants appreciate that others have false beliefs? Do they have a theory of mind? In this
article I provide a detailed review of more than 20 experiments that have addressed these …

The study of language evolution, and human cognitive evolution more generally, has often
been ridiculed as unscientific, but in fact it differs little from many other disciplines that …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

This article surveys philosophical and scientific issues arising from questions about animal
consciousness. These questions include: which animals have consciousness and what (if …

From the process of organic evolution to the analysis of insect societies as self-organizing
systems, biology is full of awe-inspiring examples of complexity arising from simplicity. Yet in …

Using cooperation in chimpanzees as a case study, this article argues that research on
animal minds needs to steer a course between 'association-blindness'—the failure to …

Whether fear conditioning can take place without contingency awareness is a topic of
continuing debate and conflicting findings have been reported in the literature. This …

This volume is a collection of fourteen essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning
the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of animal minds has …

Philosophers and psychologists have long worried that the human tendency to
anthropomorphize leads us to err in our understanding of nonhuman minds. This tendency …

How should we determine the distribution of psychological traits—such as Theory of Mind,
episodic memory, and metacognition—throughout the Animal kingdom? Researchers have …