O'Connell 3 markers

Question 1

What is ‘hard’ behaviourism?

Answer 1

• Type of behaviourism championed by Carl Hempel
• Argues that mental states are completely reduceable to physical and obseravble bodily movements (behaviour) without loss of meaning
• Is also called analytic behaviour because it involves an analytic reduction of mental states; taking themk apart and defining them in terms of their constituent parts

Question 2

What are phenomenal properties?

Answer 2

• They are the experiential properties of some (or all) conscious (mental) states.
• They are intrinsic, non-intentional properties of mental states (also referred to as qualia).
• They are the introspectively accessible properties of mental states
• They are the properties of how things appear to (or are experienced by) the mind.