From the Oxford University Press website:

• A ground-breaking critique of conventional understanding of the biological world in terms of the human mind
• Illuminates how we understand the non-human world, and how we understand the meanings of mental terms
• First book to examine how mathematical models provide an important new kind of evidence for mental capacities in nonhumans
• Written equally for philosophers and for readers in the human and life sciences

Dr. Carrie Figdor is an associate professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa, as well as an affiliated faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

Her primary research areas are philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and metaphysics, plus neuroethics and media ethics. Her current research focuses on the use of psychological terms throughout biology, a topic at the intersection of philosophy language, mind, and science. She is also working on projects in mechanistic explanation, the relation between psychology and moral status, and the epistemology of journalism.

https://clas.uiowa.edu/philosophy/people/carrie-figdor