Podcast #4: The Great Brain Debate
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Ginger Campbell, MD
The debate about the relative contributions of nature versus nurture has probably been going on as long as humans have wondered about the origins of human behavior. In his 2004 book The Great Brain Debate: Is it Nature or Nurture?, Harvard neuroscientist, John E Dowling, describes how recent discoveries about brain development shed light on this controversy.This episode of the Brain Science Podcast discusses the main ideas of Dowling’s book.
The Brain Science Podcast feed is available here.
Filed under: Neuroscience, Podcast Show Notes, brain science
[...] “nature versus nurture” controversy, which I discussed more explicitly way back in Episode 4. The evidence seems to be mounting that human intelligence is a product of both processes. There [...]
Have you seen Paul Griffiths’ book “What Emotions Really Are”? He discusses the philosophy of scientific committment to realism with some interesting words on how to neutralize non-realist objections to it. He also talks about his ‘developmental systems psychology’ and its evolutionary underpinnings.
I’d be very interested in your reactions to it, although I am attempting to work through your podcasts systematically from the beginning and it may take some time to catch up!