Anthropomorphism and its Discontents
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The usefulness of an approach in science is a difficult beast to capture. Attempts to quantify the fertility of anthropomorphism can quickly degenerate into something akin to a scientific beauty contest (at worst) or a matter of counting publications or citations of protagonists (at best). Blumberg asks “whether individuals who explicitly engage in anthropomorphism have a track record of scientific discovery that exceeds those who do not[?]” and suggests that the “apparent usefulness of anthropomorphism ... is an illusion” (p. 145).
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