CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Behaviorism, Bioethics
26 Jan 2017
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Recap: skinner vs chomsky on language acquisition. Miller (2003) the grammatical rules that govern phrases and sentences are not behaviour. They are mentalistic hypotheses about the cognitive processes responsible for the verbal behaviours we observe (141-142) Official reports of professional bodies: we have both corporeal and incorporeal aspects. We are embodied spirits and inspired bodies (or, if you will, embodied minds and minded bodies). (president"s council on bioethics, 2003) Embedded in many religious doctrines: theories that consider the spirit emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. (pope john paul iii) Reflected in pop culture body swapping moves (e. g. freaky friday, 13 going on 30, big, the change-up, all of me) Reflected in how people think about moral questions (e. g. the moral status of fetuses, non-human animals, stem cells)
