Philosophical behaviorism
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Analytical behaviorism
Behaviorism (Philosophy)
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found: Work cat.: The inner life of a rational agent: in defence of philosophical behaviourism, c2006:p. 21 (Philosophical behaviourism is a view about the nature of the mind, the concept of mind and mental predicates)
found: Knowledge, mind, and the given: reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the philosophy of mind, including the complete text of Sellars's essay, c2000:p. 136 (Philosophical behaviorism, also called logical behaviorism or analytical behaviorism)
found: Blackwell dict. of western philosophy, 2004:p. 76 (philosophical behaviorism is a type of reductive materialism which proposes that all our statements about mental states and process can be explained by statements about people's overt behavior or disposition to behave)
found: A theory of immediate awareness : self-organization and adaption in natural intelligence, 2003:p. 4 (behaviorism, both scientific and philosophical behaviorism, along with varieties of naturalism and eliminative materialism, emphasize functional analysis and exclude all references to internal states such as immediate awareness)
found: Encyc. of philosophy, 2005(Behaviorism)
found: Cambridge dict. of philosophy, 1995(behaviorism: broadly, the view that behavior is fundamental in understanding mental phenomena. The term applies both to a scientific research program in psychology and to a philosophical doctrine. Accordingly, we distinguish between scientific (psychological, methodological) behaviorism and philosophical (logical, analytical) behaviorism)
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2006-10-04: new
2006-12-22: revised
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