Carrie Figdor is a professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa and an honorary professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Her main research involves developing the philosophical foundations of psychology within a phylogenetic conceptual framework. Her 2018 book, Pieces of Mind: the proper domain of psychological predicates (OUP) won an Honorable Mention for the 2019 APA Marc Sanders Book Prize, and her papers have appeared in Philosophy of Science, The Journal of Philosophy, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Brains, Behavior and Evolution, Mind & Language, Philosophical Studies, and other leading journals.