This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Physical Behaviourism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information:
‘Hard’ behaviourism: all propositions about mental states can be reduced without loss of meaning to propositions that exclusively use the language of physics to talk about bodily states/movements (including Carl Hempel).
‘Soft’ behaviourism: propositions about mental states are propositions about behavioural dispositions (ie propositions that use ordinary language) (including Gilbert Ryle).
Issues including:
the distinctness of mental states from behaviour (including Hilary Putnam’s ‘Super-Spartans’ and perfect actors)
issues defining mental states satisfactorily due to (a) circularity and (b) the multiple realisability of mental states in behaviour
the asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people’s mental states.
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