WorksheetsMind 6 Behaviourism
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 13mins
What does physicalism assert?
Everything is physical.
Everything is physical or supervenes on the physical.
Everything is dependent upon the physical.
What is Hempel's "hard" behaviourism"?
All propositions about mental states can be reduced to propositions that use the language of physics to talk about bodily states.
Propositions about mental states are propositions about dispositions.
All mental states are identical to brain states.
What is Ryle's "soft" behaviourism?
All propositions about mental states can be reduced to propositions that use the language of physics to talk about bodily states.
Propositions about mental states are propositions about dispositions.
All mental states are identical to brain states.
"Supervene" means...
to come between.
to come together.
to come after or on top of.
The concept of multiple realizability can be used as an objection to...
eliminative materialism.
mind-brain type identity theory.
philosophical behaviourism.
Putnam's uses the "super-Spartans" to argue that...
some mental states are distinct from behaviour.
all mental states cause specific behaviours.
there is an asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people's mental states.
Who wrote the 1974 paper 'What is it like to be a bat'?
Thomas Nagel
Rene Descartes
Plato
Aristotle
What does Nagel argue cannot be fully explained by physicalist theories?
Facts about experience
Physical laws
Historical events
Mathematical truths
What is multiple realisability?
how mental states are always the same
how mental states can be expressed in different ways
how you have visions when have mental states
when mental states make you go cray
What is the name of dualist theory of the mind that argues that mental states are causally inert, ie. mental states do nothing?
(a)
What is property dualism?
one direction
one substance - one property
one substance - two properties
one property - two substance
This is a term coined by philosopher Gilbert Ryle that refers to a type of informal fallacy in which things that belong to one grouping are mistakenly placed in another.
Category Mistake
Eliminative Materialism
Hylomorphism
Neoplatonism
An 'if...then...' statement, for example 'If you were offered a cup of tea, then you would accept.' In Ryle's analytical behaviourism, certain mental states are regarded as dispositions to act in various ways and dispositions can be translated into hypotheticals of this kind which detail what a person would do if certain circumstances were realised.
Dualism
Hypothetical propositions
Intentionality
Introspection
A synonym for physicalism. The view that the mind is ultimately material in nature and so is not distinct from the physical body
Leibniz's Law
Materialism
Monism
Property
What is the definition of an analytic reduction?
looking at the meaning of the terms used
Reducing a statement (or statements) about one kind of thing to statements about another kind of thing without any loss of meaning.
Identifying two separate entities as being identical in nature
reducing statements down into their constituent parts
What example does Hilary Putnam use to illustrate his issue with behaviourism?
Mega Ninjas
Super Spartans
Victorious Vikings
Cadbury's Heroes
