Wednesday, October 26, 2016


  • What is the best [ scientific?] theory of the mind 
  • What is consciousness
  • behavioriesm 
  • john watson
  • john broadens 
  • B.F. Skine 
  • modifications 
  • Gilbert Ryle 
  • dualism 
  • physicalism 
  • the question can be put this way 
  • there are 2 sorts of predicates 
  • there are purely physical predicates 
  • there are person predicates 
  • psychological state predicates- anais has feeling about the elction, anais is in pain and so forth 
  • in all anais is the subject 
  • is mind a substance 
  • if your a cartesian you'll say yes 
  • if your gilbert ryle you'll say no 
  • anais is in pain 
  • what is th meaning of the predicate? 
  • there is the first person feature and the third person feature 
  • third person: behavior 
  • vickenshting thinks it is wrong to think of pain is a smoething but its not right to say its a nothing
  • category mistake 
  • zugma- a yolking; something yolked,; bound together 
  • disposition exhibit pain behavior 
  • disposition 
  • propensity 
  • feeling pain is to have an inclination to exhibit pain behavior
  • armstrong was a leader of Australian philosophy - a school which wanted to argue that in one for that every statement in this form is equvelant to a statement of anisis in such in such a physical state 

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