philosphy

According to Appiah, a behaviorist says that to understand is to

behave as if you understand

Philosophy of the mind

branch of philosophy that addresses questions like “what is a mind”

phenomenology

the branch of philosophy that investigates the nature of concious mental life from a first-person pov

cognitive psychology

the branch of psychology that seeks to understand how we perceive, remember, reason, decide, and then act, by postulating internal processes very like those in a computer program

behaviorism

genunine thinking and understanding requires behavioral dispositions

mentalism

the view that genuine thinking and understanding requires concious mind

idealism

the version of monism that maintains that fundamentally only mental things exist

physicalism/materialism

version of monism that maintains that fundamentally only material or physical things exist

dualism

the view that both mental and physical things exist, but they are fundamentally distinct

monism

te view that fundamentally only one kind of thing exists

interactionism

the version of dualism that maintains that there is casual interaction between mind and body

psychophysical parallelism

the version of dualism that maintains that there is no casual interaction between mind and body

functionalism

the version of physicalism that maintains that mental states and processes can be understood in terms of the functional role they play in meditating how input interact with internal states to produce output, comparable to the way a computer acts

folk psychology

a theory that most people adopt in making sense of the behavior of others in terms of their beliefs etc

verificationism

the view that if a declarative sentence is meaningful, then there must be ways to verify or falsify it

cartesian method of doubt

you should only believe what you can know with certainty

Thomas Hobbes

words are marks to allow one to remember and reidentify experiences, private language

Ludwig Wittgenstein

in order to follow a rule, it must be possible to check whether someone is following it correctly

mind-body problem

how are mental states and processes related to physical and biological and behavioral phenomena

objection to dualism

how can things that are so different interact so closely?

verificationism

statements have literal meaning if they can be verified

mind-brain identity theory

implies that others have minds and can be in similar mental states, but only creatures with brains

analytic functionalism

it is possible in principle to specify our shared ordinary beliefs about the causal relations between environmental stimuli, different types of mental states, and subsequent behavior

psychofunctionalism

mental states are implicitly defined by the causal roles that psychology and neuroscience, rather than common sense