Aug 24, 2004 · Though the term ‘functionalism’ is used to designate a variety of positions in a variety of other disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, and architecture, this entry focuses …

Aug 24, 2004 · Though the term ‘functionalism’ is used to designate a variety of positions in a variety of other disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, and architecture, this entry focuses …

Nov 23, 1998 · Functionalism, on the other hand, seems to be at the correct level of abstraction up from explanations of behavior based on physical mechanisms. In particular, it seems sufficiently abstract …

Oct 16, 2015 · According to functionalism, a system has a mind when the system has a suitable functional organization. Mental states are states that play appropriate roles in the system’s functional …

Jan 12, 2000 · Functionalism identifies mental states and processes by means of their causal roles, and as noted above in connection with Lewis, we know that the functional roles are possessed by neural …

Aug 20, 1997 · Inner states that are physically very different may nonetheless feel the same. What is crucial to what it is like is functional role, not underlying hardware. There are two famous objections …

Jun 18, 2004 · That said, the distinction between functionalism and what might be termed “teleo-functionalism” is less stark than might be thought (cf. Neander 2017, 90). One reason is that …

Dec 8, 1997 · In its modern guise, ST was established in 1986, with the publication of Robert Gordon’s “Folk Psychology as Simulation” and Jane Heal’s “Replication and Functionalism”. These two articles …

Jan 14, 2003 · Damaris Masham (1658-1708) was one of the earliest English woman philosophers. The main sources for her philosophy are two published books, A Discourse Concerning the Love of God …