Part I. Entry into Language 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 Part II. Theoretical and Philosophical Implications 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 Uncertainty 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 Hierarchical Intelligence Language and Mind Linguistics and the Innateness Conundrum The Problem Posed by Kanzi and Alternate 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 Achievement of Meaning - with Language The Achievement of Meaning Unbuttoned: The Emergence of the Social Contract The New Lens: Moving Beyond Speciesism Notes References Index.