(This is a version of the functionalist theory of mind.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Identity] Reference

Because Carruthers has explicitly applied his functionalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Consciousness] Reference

Dispositional accounts of belief, too, can be functionalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belief] Reference

This does not suffice to create trouble for the functionalist yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qualia] Reference

These two levels alone present a conventional functionalist picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Computational Theory of Mind] Reference

Nor did I say that Althusser "labeled Marx a structural-functionalist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Klugscheisser] Reference

Governmental theory was vaguely derived from the old functionalist doctrines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

The functionalist, then, has no problem with behaviorally undetectable inversions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inverted Qualia] Reference

Some agree with the truth-functionalist that when A and B are both true, "If A, B" must be true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conditionals] Reference

Fourth and finally, the objective of functionalist accounts is of limited interest to moral theorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Theory and Ethics] Reference

By transitivity, one might conclude that Descartes was either a sort of behavorist or a functionalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes and the Pineal Gland] Reference

When Dewey speaks of aesthetic experience he is not functionalist and is not consistent with his pragmatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference

It's easy to see, therefore, why Turing machines provided a fruitful model for early functionalist theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

Likewise, according to the functionalist, what makes a state pain is not its particular neural configuration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belief] Reference

To put this in functionalist terms: morality is not to solve one problem, but frequently re-occurring problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Theory and Ethics] Reference

For the functionalist, to believe just is to be in a state that plays (something like) this sort of causal role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belief] Reference

Still, the functionalist elements cannot be ignored if we are to distinguish the phenomenal from the nonphenomenal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference

Many authors have doubted that, for example, our talk about qualia can be adequately cashed out in functionalist terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Psychology as a Theory] Reference

This ap - proach gained its identity in the course of a debate with a “functionalist” school which was developing in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS] Reference

The functionalist credo, transmitted by William Morris and the English Arts and Crafts Movement, was to come to fruition in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONCEPT OF GOTHIC] 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

Then, in effect, their position is a functionalist account of the difference between phenomenal and nonphenomenal representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference

What alternatives are there to identity or functionalist theories about the relation between dispositions and their causal bases?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dispositions] Reference

Architecture for the last 100 years has had this dichotomy where you're either a formalist or a functionalist, but that's bull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joshua Prince-Ramus On The Myth Of Architectural Genius] Reference

On the functionalist account the moral agent seems ipso facto to be irrational (barring considerations of guilt-avoidance or regret).    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Theory and Ethics] Reference

You start a functionalist revolution, and the only function you can think of to perform is to blow up the road that justifies your title.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

On Inverted Earth your experiences have the functional role that the functionalist theory says is necessary and sufficient for possessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inverted Qualia] Reference

A third more immediate antecedent to the Chinese Room argument emerged in early discussion of functionalist theories of minds and cognition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Room Argument] Reference

And that is what is accomplished by the specifically representationalist part of strong representationalism does, not by the functionalist part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference

The functionalist often appeals to analogies with other inter-level relations, as between the biological and biochemical or the chemical and the atomic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

For example, a functionalist might adopt the position that an internal state is a belief state in virtue of having the right kind of internal functional role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Externalism About Mental Content] Reference

Approached this way, Kant's view that we know nothing of the structure and composition of the mind would just be a radical version of this functionalist idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

The farthest out male is the drag queen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all the other drag queens like the functionalist, he has an identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The S.C.U.M. Manifesto] Reference

“There is no possibility of Searle's Chinese Room Argument being successfully deployed against the functionalist hypothesis that the brain instantiates an O-machine ¦.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Room Argument] Reference

Lewis is therefore interpreting folk psychology as a functionalist theory; that is, as a theory which identifies mental states in terms of their causal-functional relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Psychology as a Theory] Reference

Prior's own view about the relation between dispositions and their causal bases is analogous to a functionalist view about the relation between mental and physical properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dispositions] Reference