In many ways, neo-functionalism is hard-wired into the EU, certainly among the Eurocrats in Brussels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The EU SPV] Reference

As is Dennett's functionalism, which is a denial of mental states at all, including "intent", which is what Schwartz is relying upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference

As far as the notion of functionalism in architecture is concerned, it cannot be assumed that such ideas refer back to Ruskinian theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruskin's Originality] Reference

Slide 15: Oversimpli fi ed notions of VM used by many philosophers Some philosophers who know about Finite State Machines (FSMs), use a simple kind of "functionalism".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

According to functionalism humans can be compared to computers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychologism] Reference

But that doesn't mean computationalism or functionalism is false.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Room Argument] Reference

However, I disagree that their actions are shaped by functionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

But that does not constitute a refutation of functionalism generally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Room Argument] Reference

We got a C on our paper detailing how functionalism derailed 1980's Panama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spencer Walker: A Case For Cooking: 5 Reasons Guys Should 'Cook To Bang' (PHOTOS)] Reference

Fulton, Robert function functionalism fundamentalism fungal infection fungi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entry Index: existentialism to Ganges River] Reference

Le Corbusier (1887–1965) epitomized the new turn to functionalism in his designs.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Culture and Popular Culture] Reference

Nor did the six metal-framed canvas seats bolted to the floor, functionalism gone mad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Eagles Dare]

Here we arrive at a core thesis of functionalism: states of mind are multiply realizable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

But once functionalism is allowed, we don't need to make a detour via representationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pain] Reference

(There are teleological and homuncular forms of functionalism, which I do not consider here.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Identity Theory of Mind] Reference

There have been many objections to functionalism, however, that apply to all versions of the theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

These are regarded as serious worries for all versions of functionalism (see Stich 1983, Putnam 1988).    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

“Qualitative characteristics, type materialism, and the circularity of analytic functionalism”, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

He came into an empty corridor where pure functionalism took the place of anything intended for humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Night, Mrs. Calabash] Reference

And in any case, just like the inverted spectrum argument against behaviorism, functionalism and physicalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inverted Qualia] Reference

Does strong representationalism, then, inherit all the usual problems of functionalism about the phenomenal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference

Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe were notable advocates of functionalism in the twentieth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [functionalism] Reference

So, according to functionalism, necessarily, two creatures who are functionally alike are also mentally alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inverted Qualia] Reference

The earliest view that can be considered an ancestor of functionalism is Aristotle's theory of the soul (350 BCE).    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

So functionalism is compatible with the sort of dualism that takes mental states to cause, and be caused by, physical states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

Moreover, a functionalist theory of the distinction should inherit all the usual problems of functionalism about the phenomenal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference

It is not clear, however, whether representationalism is doing any work in this proposal once an appeal to functionalism is made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pain] Reference

So: neither a narrow functionalism nor an unworldly pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, but a typically mediaeval practicality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oxford University Commemoration Day Sermon University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford] Reference

That sense of equipoise, so Roman in its restrained practicality, presages the rationalism and functionalism of modern architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wonder From Any Angle] Reference

Other important recent antecedents of functionalism are the behaviorist theories that emerged in the early-to-mid twentieth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

This response concedes that the Inverted Earth argument against functionalism may need to appeal to more-or-less outlandish possibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inverted Qualia] Reference

This methodology, however, leaves psycho-functionalism open to the charge that it, like the Psycho-Physical Identity Thesis, may be overly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

Computationalism is a kind of functionalism that holds (a) that mental states are type-identical to functional states and token-identical to physical states (Figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference

Sociologists coin terms like neo-functionalism and social-disorganization theory to explain why some areas are just screwed (those are actual academic terms, by the way).    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Cubias: The Roots: How Long Does It Take One Neighborhood to Change?] Reference

For Myriad Household Products Melding Bauhaus functionalism and an American sensibility, Viktor Schreckengost pioneered industrial design for products from toys to dinnerware.    From Wordnik.com.  [Career Produced an Elegant Design] Reference

According to functionalism, a state or process counts as being of a given mental or conscious type in virtue of the functional role it plays within a suitably organized system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

The Art Commission, impressed with the unusual detail of the documentation, and the beauty and functionalism of the original plans, had thereupon adopted the following resolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference