Behaviorism. The Problem of Other Minds 1.If Substance Dualism is correct, it’s possible for all of the human bodies around you to lack minds and yet.

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The Problem of Other Minds

1. If Substance Dualism is correct, it’s possible for all of the human bodies around you to lack minds and yet behave just as they do.

2. If that’s possible, then you have no evidence of other minds.

3. You do have evidence of other minds.4. Substance Dualism isn’t correct.

1. My body has a mind.2. My body is similar to the other

bodies around me.3. The other bodies around me have

minds.

1. A Rylean Robot lacks a mind.2. A Rylean Robot is similar to the other

bodies around me.3. The other bodies around me lack

minds.

Physicalism: Everything is ultimately physical.Mental Realism: There are minds.Non-Reductionism: Minds cannot be reduced to the physical.

Theory of Moral Permission: Something is morally permissible only if, and because, .

Theory of Pain: Something is in pain only if, and because, .Theory of Happiness: Something is happy only if, and because .Theory of Belief: Something believes some proposition p only if, and because, .

Theory of Mind: Mental states are .Something is in pain only if, and because, .

I have already had occasion to argue that a number of words which we commonly use to describe and explain people’s behavior signify dispositions and not episodes. To say that a person knows something, or aspires to be something, is not to say that he is at a particular moment in a process of doing or undergoing anything, but that he is prone to do certain things, when the need arises, or that he is prone to do and feel certain things in situations of certain sorts.

-Ryle, The Concept of Mind

According to philosophical behaviorism, mental states are dispositions (or ‘tendencies’) to behave in certain ways under certain circumstances. Pain, for example, is the tendency to cry or wince or… when you have broken your leg or burned your hand or… According to philosophical behaviorism, to be in pain is to be disposed to do certain things when certain things happen to you.

-Ravenscroft, Philosophy of Mind

According to philosophical behaviorism, mental states are dispositions (or ‘tendencies’) to behave in certain ways under certain circumstances. Pain, for example, is the tendency to cry or wince or… when you have broken your leg or burned your hand or… According to philosophical behaviorism, to be in pain is to be disposed to do certain things when certain things happen to you.

-Ravenscroft, Philosophy of Mind

Behaviorism: Mental states are behavior or dispositions to behavior. Something is in pain only if, and because, it is crying or wincing or...