Katja Guenther

Katja Guenther

Princeton University

History of the Human Sciences

kguenther@ias.edu

Statement: Katja Guenther is completing a book project on the history of the mirror self-recognition test in the twentieth century. Scientists placed infants, “primitives,” robots, and animals of various kinds in front of mirrors, in order to pose and find new answers to the perennial question: “What makes us human?”

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