Ullin Place

Ullin Place ( born October 24, 1924 in Yorkshire, England; † 2000) was a British philosopher and psychologist. He is together with John Jamieson Carswell Smart as the founder of the identity theory

Place studied at Oxford University, where she learned a philosophy of mind in the tradition of Gilbert Ryle know. This teaching brought him to the behaviorism in conjunction, where he remained connected at a critical distance. Later still he defended as Burrhus Frederic Skinner's Verbal Behavior Nichtbehaviorist.

Nevertheless Place was with John Smart as the founder of the position is known, which should eventually displace the philosophical behaviorism - the identity theory. In Is consciousness a brain process? (1956 ) formulated Place the thesis that mental states are not to be defined through behavior. Rather, one must identify them with neural states of the brain. This thesis Place can be seen as one of the fathers of the materialistic mainstream in the philosophy of mind in the 1960s and 1970s.

Works

  • Identifying the Mind: Selected Papers of UT Place (edited by George Graham and Elizabeth R. Valentine ), OUP, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-516137-8
  • ? Is consciousness a brain process, in: British Journal of Psychology 47 (1956 ), pp. 44-50
  • " Skinner's Verbal Behavior - why we need it", in: Behaviorism, 1981.
  • Philosopher ( 20th century)
  • Representatives of the Philosophy of Mind
  • Briton
  • Born in 1924
  • Died in 2000
  • Man
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