behavour

Question 1

what is it

Answer 1

claims that dualist theories radially misconstrue the nature of the mind by regarding it as something private that we can never directly detect in others.

instead they argue when we ascribe mental states we are really talking about what wre can observe namely behaviour so in this view mental states are ultimately reducible to something physical- human behaviour

Question 2

basics

Answer 2

analytic reduction - language
solves problem of other minds and interaction

VP supports
dualism- we cant talk about mental states meaning full
behaviourism- empirically verfi

Question 3

hard behavioruism

Answer 3

public observable
all talk of mental states to behaviour
actual action

Question 4

soft behaviourism

Answer 4

potential actions

behaviour disposition

Question 5

issues

Answer 5

how to define mental states

dualist arguments

Question 6

how to define mental states

Answer 6

multiple realisability
different mental state different ways of showing it

circularity 
mental states reduced to behaviour 
but how to explain behaviour 
seems random 
if water poisoned but me thirsty 
if I don't drink because I know but then am i not thirsty ?

Question 7

dualist arguments

Answer 7

evidence of introspection
i am aware of my own experiences- subjective and private
experience of qualia
cant describe my experience talk of pain vs being in pain
might do for others but not ourselves

asymmetry
someone else i have behaviour only
looking at me i don’t need behaviour jusgt introspect
behaviourism unable to explain this

mental states cause behaviour 
mental states of causal influences on behaviour 
conflicts with common sense 
common sense explains every day issues 
behaviourism doesn't 

distinctness of mental states from behaviour
impossible to be in a mental state without need of behaviour manifestation
super spartans
feel pain like us but suppress it
not contradictory
pain behaviour is a symptom of being in pain