Behaviourism

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Mind Map on Behaviourism, created by SteKeane on 20/01/2016.
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Behaviourism
  1. Definition
    1. Any psychological statement can be translated, without loss of content, into a cluster of statements that are solely about the behavioral phenomenon.
    2. Support
      1. Conforms to Ockham's razor
        1. Avoids suffering from the private language argument
        2. Problems
          1. Multiple realisability of mental states
            1. (i) Different people express mental states in different behaviors in the same situation
              1. (ii) It seems that mental states cannot be clearly categorized of behavioral dispositions
                1. (iii)This therefore makes it unnecessary to have any disposition in order to have a mental state
              2. Dispositions depend not just on the behavior in one circumstance but also certain hypothetical statements in other situations are true
                1. An example would be if i ran away from something doesn't mean that i am sacred of it. It also depends if another situation causes me to be scared i would run away from that aswell
              3. Problem of circularity
                1. (i) There is no stand-alone definition of a mental state
                  1. (ii) In order to do this we must refer to other mental states
                    1. (iiI) This shows that mental states are dependent on each other
                      1. (iv) This shows a dispositional analysis of mental states is near impossible with no definition to base it off
                2. The conceivability of mental states without associated behavior (Super-spartans)
                  1. (i) Super spartians are people who have evolved to completely supress all pain behaviors
                    1. (ii) However, it is conceivable that they still experience pain
                      1. (iii) This shows that pain can be understood without behavioral dispositions
                    2. In order for spartans to surpress all pain behaviours they would have to know about behavioral dispositions
                      1. Putnam argues that spartans are fully encultured meaning they from birth they would know they are in pain without expressing pain behaviors
                    3. The asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people's mental states
                      1. (i) There seems to be asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people's mental states
                        1. (ii)Behaviorism rules out an asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people's mental states
                          1. (iii) Therefore behaviorism is false
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