analytical behaviorism

alternative analytical behaviourism

1. USuncountablehuman sciencesSynonym of behaviorism.

   According to Armstrong, Analytical Behaviorism accounts for mental processes as the behavior of men's bodies, and not the behavior of men.

   1978, Elmer Sprague, Metaphysical Thinking, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 55

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   On the other hand, there have been many who would claim that all psychological terms are empirical terms. This is the program of logical or analytical behaviorism associated with the early work of Carnap and Hempel, but both of these men and most others have since given up the program because no adequate analyses of psychological expressions in terms of physicalistic expressions have been produced.

   1971, James W. Cornman, Materialism and Sensations, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 83

   Given this observation, and Peirce’s insistence on the existence of mental states, the well-known objections to the thesis of analytical behaviorism will not apply to Peirce’s treatment.

   1980, Robert Almeder, The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical Introduction, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 3

   Synonyms: analytic behaviorism, analytic behaviourism, analytical behaviourism, behaviorism, behaviourism, logical behaviourism, philosophical behaviorism, philosophical behaviourism