RIDDLE ME THIS - THE CRAFT AND CONCEPT OF ANIMAL MIND

This article examines the relations between methods used in both anima l work and study and concepts of animal mind. By ''animal work'' the a uthors mean humans and animals working together; and by ''animal study '' they mean the discipline of ethology, especially the emerging area of cognitive ethology. Within these areas the wide range of conception s of animal mind includes varying emphases on intelligence, forms of r ationality and language, cognition, consciousness, and intentionality. The authors' central concern is to elucidate the vocabulary and the c oncepts which seem necessary to establishing successful working relati onships with sheepdogs and gundogs. Their argument moves toward an emp hasis on the appreciation of particular intentional states and recogni zes that they invariably deploy elements of a moral vocabulary in achi eving creative teamwork performances with dogs and other animals. The article concludes by considering the relevance of accounts of work wit h animals for associated considerations of intentionality.