MillerComm Lecture Series
Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animal Behavior
Thursday, April 24th, 2003
Bernard E. Rollin
7:30pm
Room 149, National Soybean Research Center
1101 West Peabody Drive
Urbana
Event Description
Ordinary common sense and everyday people have no problem with using anecdotal information and anthropomorphic attributions to interpret and understand animal behavior. In a scientific milieu, however, "anecdote" and "anthropomorphism" are dirty words, and are unequivocally dismissed as fallacious. We will examine the question of whether or not such cavalier dismissal is justified.
Hosted by: College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Sciences
Department of Philosophy
Bernard E. Rollin
Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC