Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!spar!ellis From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Science & Philosophy vs Rosenism (Skinnerist Moral Philosophy) Message-ID: <619@spar.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 13:21:22 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.619 Posted: Fri Oct 25 13:21:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 07:38:10 EDT References: <1663@pyuxd.UUCP> <1820@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1907@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 16 >Hmmm, this is an intriguing proposition. The internal state, having gotten >to be the way it is (with indoctrination and conditioning leading that >internal state into various forms).. But does past history, in fact, determine `present state'? If a great deal of recent scientific research and theory in biology, chemistry, and physics is true, your pet behaviorist theories must be tossed into the Humean flames! Why do you suppose Strict Behaviorism is obsolete? SMASH SKINNERISM!! -michael