Blake Ginsburg (Michigan State University)
This paper makes a case for why anthropocentric bias must be taken seriously by feminist epistemologists and philosophers of science. I open by defending a notion of anthropocentrism that reveals the connections between forms of bias that harm humans and those that harm nonhuman entities. From here, I suggest that anthropocentrism is a feminist issue and attempt to show how feminist epistemologists and philosophers of science possess the methodological tools to address anthropocentric bias within the sciences. I then show how these methods might be used to address and challenge anthropocentric bias within urban ecology and cognitive ethology.
