Colin Allen wrote his chapter while Provost Professor of Cognitive Science and of History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a faculty member of Indiana University’s Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior and the Program in Neuroscience. From August 2017 he will be a member of the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sean Allen-Hermanson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida International University in Miami specializing in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His work on animals includes articles on Morgan’s Canon and consciousness in bees, monkeys and bats.
Kristin Andrews is York Research Chair in the Philosophy of Animal Minds at York University in Toronto, Canada, and is the author of two books: Do Apes Read Minds? Toward a New Folk Psychology (MIT Press 2012) and The Animal Mind (Routledge 2015).
Dorit Bar-On is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She has published widely on issues in mind, language and epistemology, and is the author of Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge (Oxford University Press 2004). She is Director of the Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning research group.
Jacob Beck is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and member of the Centre for Vision Research at York University in Toronto, Canada. His research centers on the nature of mental representations, including concepts, perceptions and analog representations.
José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. His books include The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT Press 1998), Thinking without Words (Oxford University Press 2003), Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 2005), Decision Theory and Rationality (Oxford University Press 2009), Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Cambridge University Press 2014, 2nd ed.) and Understanding “I”: Language and Thought (Oxford University Press 2017).
Maria Botero is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology and Philosophy Department at Sam Houston State University. With the support of the Jane Goodall Institute, she has conducted interdisciplinary studies in mother-infant interaction in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) pairs from the Kasekela community at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Her published work examines primate communication, anxiety-related behavior in orphans, the effects of the mother-infant interaction for the development for the primate mind, and methods used in Primatology.
Matthew Boyle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Until 2016, he was Professor at Harvard University. He writes primarily on the philosophy of mind and on figures in the history of philosophy, especially Kant.
Derek H. Brown is an Associate Professor with a Research Appointment in the Department of Philosophy at Brandon University, Canada. At the time of writing, he is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge.
Rachael L. Brown is a lecturer in the School of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She has also held positions at Macquarie University and the University of Western Ontario.
Cameron Buckner began studying artificial intelligence at Texas Tech University and completed his PhD in Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. After an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Ruhr-University, Bochum, he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston.
Stephen A. Butterfill researches and teaches on joint action, mindreading and other philosophical issues in cognitive science at the University of Warwick (UK).
Elisabeth Camp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research focuses on thoughts and utterances that don’t fit standard propositional models, including animal cognition, maps, frames, metaphor, slurs and sarcasm. Her work has appeared in journals including Mind, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophical Studies.
Hayley Clatterbuck is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Rochester. Her research investigates questions of human cognitive uniqueness and the nature of explanation in evolutionary biology.
Alasdair Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield. He is an expert on the relationship between animal ethics and political theory, and has written many articles and book chapters on the topic as well as two books: An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (Palgrave) and Animal Rights without Liberation (Columbia). He has also written papers on various issues within the areas of human rights, bioethics, philosophy of punishment and environmental ethics.
Mike Dacey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bates College in Maine. His research focuses on inferences from behavioral observations to the nature of psychological processes, including the role of modeling and conceptions of simplicity.
Andrew Fenton is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Philosophy at Dalhousie University and California State University, Fresno. Much of his research focuses on animal ethics and the philosophy of autism, though he also works in epistemology, neuroethics and the philosophy of animal cognition. Currently, he is extending his work in animal ethics from laboratory research to animal agriculture.
Simon Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. His research lies primarily in the philosophy of psychology and philosophy of science, focusing in particular on the philosophy of animal cognition, empirical moral psychology, and the role of considerations of simplicity/parsimony in scientific investigation. His work has appeared in journals such as Mind and Language, Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis and Journal of the History of Biology.
Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. His areas of research include phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, especially topics related to embodiment, self, agency and intersubjectivity, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of time. Gallagher has a secondary research appointment at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He holds the Humboldt Foundation’s Anneliese Maier Research Award (2012–18). He is a founding editor and a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. His publications include How the Body Shapes the Mind (Oxford University Press 2005); The Phenomenological Mind (with Dan Zahavi, Routledge 2008; 2nd ed. 2012); Phenomenology (Palgrave Macmillan 2011); and Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (Oxford University Press in press).
Christopher Gauker is the Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Salzburg in Austria. His most recent book is Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas (Oxford University Press 2011).
Rocco J. Gennaro is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Indiana, USA. Two of his most recent books are The Consciousness Paradox: Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts (MIT Press 2012) and Consciousness (Routledge 2017).
Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, Visiting Professor at the University of Reading and an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Prize Awardee. He is the author of A Wittgenstein Dictionary (Blackwell 1996), Quine and Davidson (Cambridge University Press 2003) and What Is Analytic Philosophy? (Cambridge University Press 2008).
Peter Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of five books, including Darwinian Population and Natural Selection, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award, and most recently Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness.
Grant Goodrich completed his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He teaches philosophy at The Citadel.
Mitchell S. Green is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include pragmatics, the evolution of communication, self-knowledge and self-deception, and aesthetics. His publications include Self-Expression (Oxford University Press), “Imagery, Expression, and Metaphor” (Philosophical Studies), “Assertion” (Oxford Handbooks Online), and “Learning to Be Good (or Bad) in (or Through) Literature” (Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature). Green is also founding director of Project High-Phi, which supports philosophical inquiry in American high schools.
Thibaud Gruber is a Scientific Collaborator at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK. He is interested in comparative cognition and evolutionary anthropology, with a specific focus on the evolution of culture and communication in great apes. His research is currently funded by the SNSF.
Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, where she also is the coordinator of Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is the author and editor of nine books and dozens of articles and chapters. Gruen has documented the history of The First 100 chimpanzees in research in the US (http://first100chimps.wesleyan.edu) and has an evolving website that documents the journey to sanctuary of the remaining chimpanzees in research labs, The Last 1,000 (http://last1000chimps.com).
Marta Halina is University Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Selwyn College, where she directs studies in HPS and the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences.
Christoph Hoerl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research is mainly in the philosophy of mind, with a particular interest in philosophical questions about the nature of temporal experience, memory, and our ability to think about time.
Bryce Huebner is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University. He is the author of Macrocognition: A Theory of Distributed Minds and Collective Intentionality. His research focuses on group cognition, moral psychology, and the philosophy of the social and cognitive sciences.
Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University (NYU), and founding director of the Animal Studies Initiative. He co-edited the pioneering collections Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior (Westview 1990) and Readings in Animal Cognition (MIT Press 1996) with Marc Bekoff. His most recent books are Assessing Assessments: Historical and Philosophical Study of Scientific Assessments for Environmental Policy in the Late Twentieth Century (forthcoming from Chicago University Press), co-authored with Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes and others; Environment and Society: A Reader (NYU Press 2017), co-edited with Christopher Schlottmann and others; and Love in the Anthropocene (OR Books 2015), a collection of essays and short stories co-authored with Bonnie Nadzam.
David Michael Kaplan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cognitive Science, an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, and an Associate Investigator in the Perception and Action Research Centre at Macquarie University, Australia.
Andrew Knoll is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His work focuses on the role intentional content plays in empirical theories of perception, motor control and linguistics.
Robert Lurz is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. His research is on theory of mind, introspection, appearance-reality discrimination, and consciousness in animals. He has written Mindreading Animals (MIT Press 2011) and edited The Philosophy of Animal Minds (Cambridge University Press 2009).
Mohan Matthen is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Perception at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Seeing, Doing, and Knowing (Oxford University Press 2005) and editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception (Oxford University Press 2015).
Teresa McCormack is Professor of Cognitive Development at the School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast. His research currently focuses on the development of temporal cognition and of regret. She has co-edited a number of interdisciplinary volumes with Christoph Hoerl.
Irina Mikhalevich is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, and a former McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research examines conceptual and methodological problems in comparative cognition science and their implications for the treatment of nonhuman animals.
Richard Moore is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He writes on the changes in communication and social learning that led to the phylogenetic emergence of uniquely human forms of cognition and culture, and conducts empirical studies of the communicative abilities of children and animals.
Jesse Prinz is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His books include Furnishing the Mind, Gut Reactions, Beyond Human Nature and The Conscious Brain.
Joëlle Proust works at Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), as a Director of Research for the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Foundation. She has headed several interdisciplinary collaborative projects on animal metacognition and on the development and cross-cultural diversity of human metacognition.
Grant Ramsey is a BOFZAP Research Professor in the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium. His work centers on the philosophical problems at the foundation of evolutionary biology. He has published widely in this area, as well as in the philosophy of animal behavior, human nature, and the moral emotions. He runs the Ramsey Lab (www.theramseylab.org), a highly collaborative research group focused on issues in the philosophy of the life sciences.
Michael Rescorla is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2003. His research lies within the philosophies of mind, language and logic.
Georges Rey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published extensively in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, particularly on the role of intentionality in not only animal navigation, but in early visual and linguistic processing.
Bernard E. Rollin is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Animal Sciences at Colorado State University. He is a pioneer in the study of animal ethics and animal consciousness. Rollin is a 2016 recipient of the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) Lifetime Achievement Award for research ethics – the first time this has ever been awarded to an animal ethicist.
Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of eighteen books, including Animals Like Us (Verso 2002), Can Animals be Moral? (Oxford University Press 2012) and The Philosopher and the Wolf (Granta 2008).
Eric Saidel is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at George Washington University. His research on animal minds focuses on questions relating to the nature of evidence we can have for the presence of nonhuman animal psychology.
Laura Schlingloff is a PhD student in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Central European University in Budapest. She previously completed an MA in Mind and Brain at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Adam Shriver is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. Previously he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Postdoc at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy and the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis.
Eli Shupe is a graduate student at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research is in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, with a focus on animal cognition. She has spent time as a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre. Her work has appeared in Philosophical Studies.
Christine Sievers is a PhD researcher at the Philosophy Seminar at the University of Basel and at the Comparative Cognition Department at the University of Neuchâtel. She is working theoretically and empirically on questions regarding communicative interactions and communicative signal use in human and nonhuman animals.
Ulrich Stegmann is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. He is the editor of Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence (Cambridge University Press 2013).
Michael Trestman is an independent scholar residing in San Francisco, CA. His research focuses on animal consciousness and cognition.
Michael Tye encountered philosophy at Oxford and has taught at London University, Temple University and the University of St Andrews. He is currently the Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sarah Vincent is the Florida Blue Center for Ethics Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of North Florida (Jacksonville, FL). Her areas of research are philosophy of psychology/cognitive science and applied ethics, most especially with respect to nonhuman animals. She was previously a Post-Doctoral Visitor at York University (Toronto), and she earned her doctorate at the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN) in 2015.
Markus Wild teaches philosophy at the University of Basel. He has worked on early modern philosophy, the philosophy of animal minds, and animal ethics. He is author of Tierphilosophie (2008) and Fische: Kognition, Bewusstsein, Schmerz (2012); co-editor of Animal Minds and Animal Ethics (2013); and co-author of “Exorcising Grice’s ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals” (Biological Review 2016).