Philosophy A-Level
Hempel's logical analysis of psychology
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The named source of this strong reductionist version, treating psychological sentences as reducible to physical ones, so mental vocabulary is retained only as shorthand.
Topics that use Hempel's logical analysis of psychology
- Physicalist theories (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Eliminative materialism
- First-person certainty of mental states
- Folk psychology
- Implications for physicalist theories
- Inference to the best explanation
- Knowledge by direct access versus inference
- Knowledge of other minds
- Ordinary-language analysis of mental talk
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