Articles on animals

[20] The contents and causes of curiosity. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, (2024). [accepted in 2021]

[19] Model-free metacognition. (With David Williams.) Cognition, 225 (2022), 105117.

[18] Stop caring about consciousness. Philosophical Topics, 48 (2020), 1-20.

[17] Comparative metacognition. (With David Williams.) Animal Behavior and Cognition, 6 (2019), 278-288.

[16] The problem of animal consciousness. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 92 (2018), 179-205.

[15] Comparative psychology without consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 63 (2018), 47-60.

[14] Basic questions. Mind & Language, 33 (2018), 130-147.

[13] Two concepts of metacognition. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 128 (2014), 138-139.

[12] The evolution of self-knowledge. (With Logan Fletcher and Brendan Ritchie.) Philosophical Topics, 40 (2012), 13-37. (Published in 2014.)

[11] The evolution of working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (2013), 10371-10378.

[10] Animal minds are real, (distinctively) human minds are not. American Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2013), 233-247.

[9]    Behavior-reading versus mentalizing in animals. (With Logan Fletcher.) In J. Metcalfe and H. Terrace (eds.), Agency and Joint Attention. OUP, 2013.

[8]    The emergence of metacognition: affect and uncertainty in animals. (With Brendan Ritchie.) In M.Beran, J.Brandl, J.Perner, and J.Proust (eds.), Foundations of Metacognition. OUP, 2012.

[7]    Invertebrate concepts confront the Generality Constraint (and win). In R. Lurz (ed.), The Philosophy of Animal Minds. CUP, 2009.

[6]    Meta-cognition in animals: a skeptical look. Mind and Language, 23 (2008), 58-89.

[5]    On being simple minded.  American Philosophical Quarterly, 41 (2004), 205-220. (Adobe acrobat version, plus figures.)

[4]    Why the question of animal consciousness might not matter very much. Philosophical Psychology, 17 (2004), 83-102. Click here for pdf.

[3] Replies to critics: explaining subjectivity. Psyche, 6 (2000). (Replying to ten refereed articles in the same journal targeted on [2].)

[2] Animal subjectivity. Psyche 4 (1998). (Long abstract and reworking of phenomenal consciousness article #[2], to provide a target paper for a special issue of the journal devoted to animal consciousness.)

[1] Brute experience. The Journal of Philosophy, 86 (1989), 63-79.