On Ryle's Behaviorism's Disintegrate Of The Problem Of Other Minds

The problem of other minds is concerned by contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science and is a focus problem. This question being raised is based on the Cartesian dualism of mind and body:each of us has a body and mind which are combined, but they are completely different entities. The body has extension but can not think. The mind can think but doesn't have extension. But as for our cognizing of mind, only the owners have definite knowledge and also can directly control their own inner world. However, outsiders can not visit the inner world of the owners. It is this point of view, which results asymmetry in the cognizing of mind, and then produces the problem of other minds. The questions are:do people have minds? What is the heart of others? How do we know that other people have minds? What is the inference and basis? The exploration of this problem is divided into two different research approaches:one is to explain the problem of other minds from the perspective of dualism, such as, Russell's analogy demonstration and hypothesis-deductive proof of the "cloud chamber" traces of analogy. They think that there exists a mind which is different from the external behavior. They also recognize that people have two parts ---- the soul and body, and think spiritual activities can not be attributed to the movement of the body. In such a way, they solve the problem of other minds. The other research approach is to demonstrate the problem of other minds from the perspective of monism, such as Ryle's behavioral explanation and Wittgenstein's argument of opposing the private language. By removing the mystery of mind, they regard the mind as the public, observable behavior and behavioral tendency. This is the overview of the problem of other minds. This article, from the perspective of Ryle's behaviorism, discusses the problem of other minds, and describes the view of Ryle's behaviorism, and Ryle's three deconstructions on the problem of other minds: understanding and misunderstanding, will's activity and the distinction of motivation. In the third section, several questions on Ryle's behaviorism are proposed:whether the problem of other minds can be cancelled, the self-contradiction in logic of Ryle's behaviorism, whether animals have minds. In the last part, some thoughts of the problem of other minds are made. We all recognize the existence of other minds, but can not find a reasonable basis for proving its existence. In addition, because of the evolution process which the birth of human experience, from lower to higher process that is from the initial inorganic, to the lower organisms, to higher animals, in such a chain, even the most primitive creature has some degree of similarity with human, and then can we make negative answer of animals having minds? These problems need further exploration. This article tries to discuss the problem of other minds from the perspective of Ryle's behaviorism, and to explore the theory approach which can enrich and develop "the problem of other minds".