The problem of other minds and the mind body problem. Dualism has traditionally struggled to account for how an immaterial substance can interact with a material one. Behaviorism on the other hand is a physicalist theory and implicit in it is the idea that the mind arises out of the material physical world. What dualism fails to account for, Behaviorism solves simply by ascribing to a view of the purely material. The other is the problem of other minds- the objection to Dualism based on the undesired conclusion that if all we can be sure of is our own bodies, we can never know for certain that others even really exist. Dualism still struggles with this. However, Behaviorism dissolves this problem because again, in virtue of its physicalist foundation, it implicitly assumes a consistency among other humans that Substance dualism doubted. Because of this, minds are physically the same and only experientially different and so can be assumed to operate similarly to one another. Because of the physicalism of Behaviorism, it is able to dissolve two long existing problems of
The problem of other minds and the mind body problem. Dualism has traditionally struggled to account for how an immaterial substance can interact with a material one. Behaviorism on the other hand is a physicalist theory and implicit in it is the idea that the mind arises out of the material physical world. What dualism fails to account for, Behaviorism solves simply by ascribing to a view of the purely material. The other is the problem of other minds- the objection to Dualism based on the undesired conclusion that if all we can be sure of is our own bodies, we can never know for certain that others even really exist. Dualism still struggles with this. However, Behaviorism dissolves this problem because again, in virtue of its physicalist foundation, it implicitly assumes a consistency among other humans that Substance dualism doubted. Because of this, minds are physically the same and only experientially different and so can be assumed to operate similarly to one another. Because of the physicalism of Behaviorism, it is able to dissolve two long existing problems of