Compare And Contrast Behaviorists And Dualists

To understand the brain within science is a tricky subject to tamper with. The mind seems to be inner and the body seems to be outer. It would seem that no one can enter your thoughts in your mind but they can see how your body reacts. Dualists, behaviorists, the mind-body identity theorists, and fuctionists all have their own way of describing the mind within science. They have similarities and differences between each other. First we have understand each of their points separate then we can talk about their similarities and differences.
In philosophy of mind, dualism claims that mind and matter are two separate categories. In particular, mind-body dualism claims that neither the mind nor matter can be reduced to each other in any way, and
Thoughtful reports on one's own interior mental life are not subject to careful examination for accuracy and cannot be used to form predictive generalizations. Without the possibility of third-person examination, the behaviorists argued, psychology cannot be scientific. The way out, therefore, was to eliminate the idea of an interior mental life altogether and focus instead on the description of observable behavior. Parallel to these developments in psychology, a philosophical behaviorism was developed. This is characterized by a strong validation, which generally considers unverifiable statements about interior mental life pointless. For the behaviorist, mental states are not interior states on which one can make thoughtful reports. They are just descriptions of behavior or dispositions to behave in certain ways, made by third parties to explain and predict another's behavior. Cognitivists reject behaviorism due to several apparent problems. For example, behaviorism could be said to be counterpart when it maintains that someone is talking about behavior in the event that a person is experiencing a painful
It does not hold that the mind is identical to the brain. We do use ‘She has a good mind’ and ‘she has a good brain’ interchangeably but we would hardly say ‘Her mind weighs fifty ounces’. Identifying mind and brain as being a matter of identifying states of the mind and brain. Consider an experience of pain, or of seeing something, or of having a mental image. The identity theory of mind is to the effect that these experiences just are brain processes. Some philosophers hold that though experiences are brain processes they however have fundamentally non-physical, psychical, properties. Some identity theorists give a behavioristic analysis of mental states, such as beliefs and desires. Others say that mental states are actual brain