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Much of philosophy is descriptive in nature and captivates its audience (when it does so) by offering an interpretative perspective on human behavior. In this, philosophy is fundamentally not different from psychology. Both disciplines have their own tactics of trying to establish a particular methodology, and such tactics are mostly unsuccessful. Philosophy tries to insist on conceptual analysis as the foundation of its arguments, however in practice its arguments often revolve around practical behavior, its patterns, conseqeunces, and potential meanings. Psychology, on the other hand, has for some decades attempted to establish itself as a science, relying on psychometrics, which has proven to be a largely futile though persistent strategy of trying to “measure” psychic processes, and more recently, it has proclaimed an era of “evidence-based psychology”, where it is highly unclear what counts as “evidence-based”, and more importantly, there is hardly any evidence for such an “evidence-based” approach. Hence, what unites philosophy and psychology is human behavior and theire fascination with it. Thus the philosophy of psychology, or more generally of human behavior, articulates itself as behavioral philosophy. On a more radical interpretation, the entire psychology is a subdiscipline of behavioral philosophy.
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