On Being an Animal

A Fostering Dialogue Theme-Year Event sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Thomas Jack Lynch Philosophy Fund.

Dates:
April 15, 16 and 17, 2004

Free and open to the public

Principal participants:

* Sarah Boysen, Ohio State University
* Colin Allen, Texas A & M University
* Hugh LaFollette, East Tenessee State University

Additional panelists for the Saturday panel discussion:

* Carol Shively, Wake Forest University Medical Center
* Karen Roper, Wake Forest University Psychology Department
* Robert Beck, Wake Forest University Psychology Department

Schedule:

6:00 p.m. Thursday, April 15, Tribble A306

Video showing Boysen at work with her chimps. Hosted by the Undergraduate Philosophical Society and presented by Dr. Karen Roper, Wake Forest University Psychology Department

4:00 p.m. Friday, April 16, DeTamble Auditorium (followed by reception)

Sarah Boysen, "Cultural Hybridization with Chimpanzees: It's not Smoke and Mirrors"

9:00 a.m. Saturday, April 17, DeTamble Auditorium

Colin Allen, "Jumping the GAP: animal cognition beyond the great apes"

11:00 a.m. Saturday, April 17, DeTamble Auditorium

Panel discussion led by Hugh LaFollette. Discussants: Boysen, Allen, Shively, Roper, and Beck.

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