Professor Leah Ceccarelli cited in in professor Celeste Condit's 2004 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture

Posted: 09.23.05

Associate Professor Leah Ceccerelli was cited in professor Celeste Condit's 2004 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture titled "How Should We Study the Symbolizing Animal":

"The bio-humanists follow some version of the project that E. O. Wilson (1998) dubbed "Consilence." The program of consilence seeks to unite the study of human beings with the study of all other biological beings. This unification is justified by a belief, widely shared among biologists, that 'Comparisons with primates have revealed that it is entirely justified to investigate humans with the same methods used with animals' (Mayr, 2004, p. 37). Although it is described as a unifying model, the model of consilence as offered by E.O. Wilson essentially argues for the replacement of the traditional humanities and social sciences with the biological study of human beings (Ceccarelli, 2001)."

The work cited is professor Ceccarelli's "Shaping science with rhetoric: the cases of Dobzhansky, Shrödinger, and Wilson." Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.