Pinker on Behavior - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments


Behavior, philosophy: behavior ist the set of observable changes in the describable state of living organisms that are initiated by these organisms themselves, or which are a reaction to external stimuli, in which there is a certain choice of the reaction. Flanking thoughts do not belong to behavior, since an arbitrary extension of the frame of reference would make a determination of the behavior impossible. See also behaviorism, psychology, mentalism, naturalism, observation. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

Pinker, Stephen Books on Amazon	Behavior	I 60 Behavior/selection/Pinker: the selection generates behavior only very indirectly: by the fact that it creates the producers of behavior - today any action is the consequence of of dozens of causes - neither adultery nor any other behavior may be rooted in the genes. _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	Pi I St. Pinker Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998

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