Dr. Carrie Figdor is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa and an honorary professor in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Her primary research focuses on revising the conceptual foundations of psychology to put it on the same theoretical footing as any other science of evolved traits. Her book Pieces of Mind: The proper domain of psychological predicates (Oxford University Press, 2018) won an Honorable Mention for the American Philosophical Association Marc Sanders Book Prize in 2019. She has published in major academic journals including Philosophy of Science, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind & Language, Philosophical Studies, Biology & Philosophy, and others. She is Principal Investigator on a Templeton World Charity Foundation grant on referential communication in bonobos and dolphins, investigating whether some of their signals would qualify functionally as proper names. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science. She is a longtime podcast host for New Books in Philosophy, a leading podcast offering interviews with philosophers about their new books. (https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/philosophy/),