Behaviourism

Question 1

Philosophical behaviourism

Answer 1

The mind can be analysed in terms of behaviours exhibited by the body. The meaning of mental concepts is given by behaviour and behaviourial dispositions

Question 2

Verification principle

Answer 2

A proposition has meaning if it is analytic or empirically verifiable

Question 3

Hard behaviourism

Answer 3

Statements containing mental concepts can be translated into statements about behaviour and physical states containing only physical states

Question 4

Disjunctive translation

Answer 4

Full list of or statements

Question 5

Observerable verification conditions

Answer 5

Can we observe if the conditions in which the statements are true or false

Question 6

Psychological statements

Answer 6

Analytically reduced as psychological stamemts means neurophyisial statements

Question 7

Neurophyisial statment

Answer 7

Brain

Question 8

Psychological

Answer 8

Mental states

Question 9

Soft behaviourism

Answer 9

How we talk about the mind is how people would behave under specific conditions. Behavioural dispositions are not reducible to a finite set of statements about how someone would behave

Question 10

Category mistake

Answer 10

Mental states are not in the same logical category as physical states

Question 11

Para mechanical hypothesis

Answer 11

Series of mistakes made by substance dualism

Question 12

Behavioural dispositions

Answer 12

The tendency to behave a certain way given certain conditions are met.

Question 13

Hypothetical statement

Answer 13

A statement which can be true or false based on the way of the world