Functionalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Aug 24, 2004 · Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it …
Functionalism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aug 24, 2004 · Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it …
The Computational Theory of Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of …
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 …
Belief - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aug 14, 2006 · Philosophers frequently endorse functionalism about belief without even briefly sketching out the various particular functional relationships that are supposed to be involved, though Loar …
The Mind/Brain Identity Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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 …
Multiple Realizability - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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 …
The Chinese Room Argument - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Mar 19, 2004 · Functionalism is a theory of the relation of minds to bodies that was developed in the two decades prior to Searle’s CRA. Functionalism is an alternative to the identity theory that is implicit in …
Qualia (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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 …
John Dewey - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nov 1, 2018 · Dewey’s “Reflex Arc” paper applied functionalism to education. “Reflex” argued that human experience is not a disjointed sequence of fits and starts, but a developing circuit of activities.
Kant’s View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self
Jul 26, 2004 · According to functionalism, we can gain knowledge of the mind’s functions while knowing little or nothing about how the mind is built. Approached this way, Kant’s view that we know nothing …