Philosophical behaviourism

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  • Philosophical Behaviourism
    • Hard behaviourism
      • Soft behaviourism
        • Mental states are analytically reducible to dispositions, not behaviour
      • Propositions about mental states can be reduced without loss of meaning to propositions that only tilak about bodily states and movements
        • Hempel says mental states are analytically reducible to present observable behaviour
      • Hempel says mental states are analytically reducible to present observable behaviour
    • Soft behaviourism
      • Mental states are analytically reducible to dispositions, not behaviour
    • Issues
      • Multiple realisability
      • Circularity
      • the asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people’s mental states.
      • the distinctness of mental states from behaviour 'Super-Spartans' and perfect actors
        • Multiple realisability

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