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	Apes, Language, and the Human Mind
	by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Talbot J. Taylor, Stuart G. Shanker

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Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 254 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN: 0195109864

Release Date: Jan 9, 1996

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Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. This new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

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Apes, Language, and the Human Mind

-- A reviewer, a graduate student, August 2, 2000

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

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