Philosophical Behaviourism

Hard Behaviourism has its roots in?

• Substance Dualism

• Property Dualism

• Logical Positivism

• Epiphenomenalism

Which scholar promoted Hard Behaviourism?

• AJ Ayer

• Carl Hempel

• Hilary Putnam

• Gilbert Ryle

What did Gilbert Ryle say was a category mistake committed by Dualism?

• Referring to the consciousness of a zombie replica.

• Linking behaviour to brain states.

• Saying that the mind is the same as the soul.

• Referring to the existence of mental properties in addition to (and in a similar way to) the existence of physical properties.

Which of the following is an example of the multiple realisability of mental states?

• Pain shown by crying

• Pain shown by crying, meditating or teeth clenching.

• Pain shown by the firing of c-fibres.

• Pain causing a future fear.

Knowing one's own mental states through introspection whilst inferring the mental states of others through observing their behaviour, is referred to as?

• An asymmetry

• A circularity

• The masked man fallacy

• A logical contradiction

What example does Hilary Putnam use to show the confusion caused by the presence of a mental state of pain with an absence of pain behaviour?

• Zombie replica

• Mary's quale

• Injured Super-Spartan

• Perfect Actor

What example does Hilary Putnam use to demonstrate the confusion caused by the presence of pain behaviour with the absence of the mental state of pain?

• Zombie Replica

• Mary's quale

• Injured Super-Spartan

• Perfect Actor

A tendency to behave in a certain way in a certain circumstance is known as?

• A disposition

• An introspection

• An abdication

• A non-intentional phenomenal property

How would David Chalmers argue against behaviourism?

• Zombies would not show pain behaviour.

• Through introspection we know that pain is more than just pain behaviour.

• Pain behaviour is indivisible.

• A zombie replica would know pain through introspection, just like we do.

According to Gilbert Ryle, the statement: 'a glass that never shatters still has a fragile dispostion' is?

• Verifiable in principle

• False

• Unverifiable

• Meaningless