Tradition
Logical behaviorism
Overview
In the philosophy of mind, logical behaviorism (also known as analytical behaviorism, dispositional behaviorism or philosophical behaviorism) is the thesis that the meaning of mental concepts can be explained in terms of behavioral concepts.
Logical behaviorism was first stated by the Vienna Circle, especially Rudolf Carnap. Other philosophers with sympathies for behaviorism included C. G. Hempel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W. V. O. Quine. A more moderate form of analytical behaviorism was put forward by the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle in his book The Concept of Mind (1949).
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Now the epistemological logician deliberately shuts himself off from those cues and checks upon which the plain man instinctively relies, and which the scientific man deliberately searches for and adopts as constituting his technique. Consequently he is likely to set the attitude which has place and significance only in one of the serial functional situations of experience over against the active attitude which…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
States what Logical behaviorism is.
The science of dynamics was rapidly developing in Descartes’ time, and seemed to show that the motions of matter could be calculated mathematically, given sufficient data. As the motions of matter include our bodily acts, even speaking and writing, it seemed as if the consequence must be a materialistic theory of human behaviour. This consequence, however, was distasteful to most philosophers, and they therefore…
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
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Now in philosophy this attitude of mind has not as yet been achieved. A certain self-absorption, not personal, but human, has marked almost all attempts to conceive the universe as a whole.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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Philosophers who discussed Logical behaviorism
Related ideas
- Gilbert Ryle
- The Concept of Mind
- Cartesianism
- Mind–body dualism
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Vienna Circle
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Category mistake
- Bertrand Russell
- Oxford University Press
- Thought experiment
- Behaviorism
- Non-physical entity
- Rudolf Carnap
- Philosophy of mind
- Hilary Putnam
- Proposition
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.