After watching the Star Trek episode, “The Measure of a Man” while comparing it to the material that I read in Haskers, Metaphysics: Constructing a World View, my conclusion on the view that I think Picard would hold is materialism. While I believe Maddox would hold the view of interactionism. The reason why I believe Picard would hold the view of materialism is because in the episode he tends to hold to the view that there is no need for a mind to express an attitude. That is why Picard believes that the android can represent humanly characteristics without possessing human cognitive thinking. Captain Picard believes in the idea that Data (the intelligent android in Star Trek) has similar characteristics that are presented in human nature.
