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Logical behaviourism first began as an offshoot of Logical Positivism
and the philosophy of the Vienna Circle (see TOK Unit 4 and Philosophy
of Religion Unit 7). It was taken up by the American philosopher
Carl Hempel (b. 1905) and is apparent in the later philosophy of
the Cambridge-based Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889
– 1951). At the same time in Oxford, the British philosopher
Gilbert Ryle (1900 - 1976) became influenced by Wittgenstein and
the new linguistic philosophy and used a largely behaviourist approach
to refute the Cartesian model of the mind in his most famous work,
The Concept of Mind (1945), where he called Cartesian dualism the
“dogma of the ghost in the machine”.
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