Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Gilbert Ryle, Behaviorism, Mental Property

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: John Thorp

Document Summary

To put it in another way mental states or events can ben reduced to physical states or events. Reduction the process by which one object is shown to be entirely dispensible in favour of another. Any story we tell involving mental properties is entirely tellable without mental properties, but using only physical properties. A practical example of just this type of research. Dr aiden owens, the canadian excellence research chair conducting research at western right now. There have been three main versions of materialism: behaviorism (today) . There are two versions of behaviourism: radical behaviourism and logical behaviourism. Radical: put forward by john watson and bf skinner. Science is an objective public activity it relies on repeatability of experiments and observations. What i find in my lab you should find in yours. There cant be a science of the mind or soul, for the simple reason that the mind is not a public.