The Structure of Behavior

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The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
academicDiscipline cognitive science
philosophy
psychology
addresses mind–body problem
psychophysical relations
relation between organism and environment
arguesAgainst mechanistic accounts of behavior
purely intellectualist accounts of consciousness
author Maurice Merleau-Ponty NERFINISHED
centralConcept form
organization of behavior
structure ONDG
contributesTo embodied cognition
philosophy of perception
countryOfOrigin France
critiques empiricism
intellectualism
followedBy Phenomenology of Perception NERFINISHED
genre phenomenology
philosophy of mind
philosophy of psychology
hasEnglishTranslation The Structure of Behavior self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Structure of Behavior (English edition)
hasPart analysis of Gestalt structures
analysis of reflex behavior
critique of behaviorist psychology
critique of classical physiology
discussion of symbolic behavior
influenced embodied cognitive science
later phenomenology of perception
influencedBy Edmund Husserl NERFINISHED
Gestalt psychology NERFINISHED
phenomenology
mainTopic behavior
embodiment
perception
phenomenology
notableIdea hierarchical levels of behavior
integration of organism and world
originalLanguage French
originalTitle La structure du comportement
surface form: La Structure du comportement
philosophicalTradition French philosophy
continental philosophy
positionOnBehavior behavior is structured and meaningful
positionOnPerception perception is embodied and situated
publicationYear 1942
rejects Cartesian dualism
reductive behaviorism

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty notableWork The Structure of Behavior
The Structure of Behavior hasEnglishTranslation The Structure of Behavior self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Structure of Behavior (English edition)