01:730:329 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 3: Hilary Putnam, Analytic Philosophy, Behaviorism
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This includes the psychological theories by skinner and watson and the logical behaviorism. Behaviorism states that behavior is caused without any relation to mental states unlike functionalism. A person"s thoughts and feelings can be determined by their behavior. However, other psychologists believed that the success of behaviorism depended on the experimenter"s control of variables. Example: rats are placed into experiments at a fraction of their normal weights so they would be hungry. Logical behaviorism - states that mental states are equivalent to behavioral dispositions. The nature of mental states by hilary putnam. This question requires analytical philosophy, which has some implicit rules: The statement being a is being b can be correct only if it follows to an extent the meaning of the terms of a and b. Concept - used as a term for things that can be identified with classes of expressions.
