Ryle's Behaviorism

This paper explores the concept which Ryle described as "philosophical behaviorism" in the concept of mind, keeping the emphasis on clearing the confusion about this concept. Base on what has been deduced on the development of philosophical psychology, we can find out the origin of behaviorism and its final trend. As a philosophical style, this paper try to bring behaviorism into a large historical background that so as to be analyzed at the moment. After finding out the reasonable status which Ryle's philosophy deserve in the history of philosophical psychology, Ryle will be appreciated because of his great contribution in improving this philosophical style to the maturity.The author define Ryle's behaviorism for three different ways:In the narrow sense, it is a special rule of syntax which can cure the behaviorist's wrong views which cause a temporary clamor; In board sense, it is a branch of philosophical psychology; In a general sense, it is Ryle's behavior philosophy which consist of two parts, his epistemology and theory about learning. The relation between the three will be cleared finally.The main ideas of Ryle's behaviorism can be concluded as follows. Ryle inherit a special view towards philosophy from Wittgenstan that the responsablity of philosophy itself is to eliminate all of philosophical questions as well as agony in though, and not to create any other questions. Base on this view, Ryle's philosophy tend to be harmony in uniformity, it means that Ryle can keep an authentique logical mind in analyzing. This logic can also be described as logic of life as well. Ryle's philosophical uniformity is characterised by using intentionality and syntax to analyze behavior, using intentionality and motion to explain tongue, in which the three term "body", "mind" and "tongue" cannot do without one another, and one do not outweigh the others.