1. Philosophical behaviorism states that all facts about minds and mental states are facts about bodily behavior, and behavioral dispositions. Behaviorism is a form of materialism because behavioral facts are physical facts. A behaviorist would agree with the claim that “mental states are what cause people to behave in the way they do, and to be disposed to behave in certain ways under certain conditions.” This is because the behaviorist believes that these mental states can …showed first 75 words of 1472 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1472 total…can think. Or more precisely, only brains and machines that have same causal powers as brains. However, the brain’s causal capacity to produce intentionality cannot consist in instantiating a computer program, since for any program you like it is possible for something to instantiated that pr! ogram and still not have any mental states. Searle goes to say that no program can produce the intentionally that is a necessary part of thinking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**