PHLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gilbert Ryle, Category Mistake, Pineal Gland
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Behaviorism ryle: descartes" myth and putnam: brains and behavior. The plan: ryle: descartes" myth, putnam: brains and behavior, talking about writing philosophy. There is a relationship, but it is not what you expect: behaviorism: its behavioural, only insofar as we have patterns of behaviour, and only important insofar as the brain is related to our behaviours. There are two kinds of substances: mind-stuff and physical-stuff. I am, i exist this is one thing descartes could not doubt. Behaviorism: what we think of as mental states are really just behavioural states. It is a mistake to think of the mind and the body as two distinct entities a category mistake: there is no: ghost in the machine . I am in pain is a mental state (goes on in my mind); what we think of as mental states are really just behavioural states. Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind: magnum opus, the concept of mind.
