LING 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Underdetermination, Retina, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
3 Oct 2016
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A debate; the adult state of an animal is determined by 2 factors: genetic endowment, and environmental input (biology) Isn"t the brain/mind also part of me---i have a human cognitive system(s). Blank slate and the environment, conditioning, etc. determines our adult state. The delimitation of a method of inquiry/object of study. Behaviorism purports (see e. g. watson (1913), psychology as a behaviorist views it") to be science: Human and brute are not different, except maybe quantitatively: 3. is not observable, hence it is unscientific to talk about it. (what. 4. unobservable mental process, is unscientific; rather, we have controlled experiments with stimuli and recorded responses. Mind: what the mind is and what it does are far from clear". Brain: no account of what is happening inside the human body, no matter how complete, will explain the origins of human behavior. The greater part of human behavior must be traced to contingencies of reinforcement". Behavior is largely shaped by the environment (conditioning).
