Behaviorism: Wittgenstein, And Carl Gustav Hempel

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There are three important philosophers of behaviorism, which are Gilbert Ryle, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, and Carl Gustav Hempel.
Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) was a British philosopher. His work normally based on the
Ordinary Language Philosophy. He had published his ideas in Philosophy of Mind and
Philosophy of Language which made him to influence the development of 20th Century Analytic
Philosophy. He had inheritance from his father who favors Philosophy then he achieved a First
Class Honors in Philosophy during college time. He was famous for his criticism of the Dualism of Descartes- the ghost in the machine and mind-body theories. His point of view of behaviorism is the belief of all mental phenomena has connection with a person’s observable behavior.

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