Episode 2 of Nucleus: The Confluence Podcast. “Humans have a pesky habit of making everything about themselves.”
Animal Perceptions in Lab and Literature
Emma Adelina Indelicato (BA ’19) discusses how anthropocentric science and cultural ideas decontextualize and eclipse empirical facts about nonhumans, and how Animal Studies can improve biological research.
Other nuclei: The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells, 1896; “What is it like to be a bat?” by Thomas Nagel, 1974; “Notes from the Border of the Human-Animal Divide” by Syl Ko, 2016; What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret, 2012.