Blogging in class makes me feel so dirty.
There is a lecture at 4:15 in Shanklin 107, from a professor at Yale, titled “Bodies and Minds.” It sounds very interesting, and I think I will go:
Evidence from developmental psychology suggests that children and adults see physical entities such as objects (or bodies) as fundamentally distinct from psychological entities such as minds (or souls). We are natural-born dualists. This has profound implications for our mental life, and helps explain certain surprising facts about religion and morality.
Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, is past-president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and is co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, one of the major journals in the field.