The dissertation examines forms of cultural production that assimilated capture as an epistemological model in the modern period. The project looks to canonical works in …
The dissertation analyzes the destabilization of the human-animal divide in literary and theoretical discourse after the Holocaust. It demonstrates how the works of Theodor W. …
Abstract of “Kalām as a Way of Life: al-Jāḥiẓ, Natural Philosophy, and the Ontology of Human Difference,” by Michael Lawrence Payne, Ph.D., Brown University, October …
The resource specialization hypothesis posits that all consumers exhibit some degree of specialization and thus more diverse plant communities should support a greater diversity of …
People have strong intuitions about human intelligence, but also dog intelligence. Yet the content or organization of these intuitions remain unknown. Over three experiments, we …