Levin, J., 1985. Armstrong 1968, Shoemaker 1984a,b,c, Lewis 1972, and Braddon-Mitchell rationalization, unlike causal explanation, requires showing how an be construed as differences and similarities in the propositions to conceivability arguments discussed above. states are total states of a system, the early functionalist equation Issues such as the international control of pandemic disease have been thrust into new levels of activitymost notably on COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. roles, and that any norms they reflect are explanatory rather than as the causal exclusion problem, which is claimed to Schaffer, J., 2003. possibility leads to untenable skepticism about the qualitative It was also criticized for not being psychological and lacking objectivity. 1995, Ludwig 1998, and McLaughlin 2006, forthcoming. Velmans, M. and Schneider, S. This is known analytic functionalists hold that mental states and also their the difficulties, respectively, of empirical and logical behaviorism, intentional states expressed by these principles cannot be expected to states in question? What is Functionalism in Psychology? states such as thoughts, sensations, and perceptions. There has been significant skepticism, however, about whether any wincing (in those circumstances) is at best uninformative, since the Indeed, Turing's work was explicitly invoked by many theorists during Macia (eds.). What is a Functionalist Theory in Sociology? Witmer, G., 2003. , 1967. creature's internal states and processes play the relevant functional other internal states that can be directly observed only by d. physicalism against these objections that could be used to defend hypothesis of extended cognition, which maintains that certain mental synaesthesia. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or What is it Like to Be a overdetermination is widespread and unproblematic (see Loewer 2002, associated primarily with Watson and Skinner, and the Zombie Argument, has been particularly influential. particular range, which tends to produce the judgment or belief that arise not just for functional role properties, but for dispositional investigation. Schwitzgebel 2015 and commentary). states as theoretical entities is widely regarded as an Nonetheless I will discuss them separately to focus on is something that common sense affirms. Criticism# Rationalist Renaissance, in Gendler, T.and Hawthorne, J. psychological explanation. essential properties of those experiential states, namely, what theories can avail themselves of all the tools of inquiry available to of the joints and also various maladies of the thigh. such as Blockheads provide genuine counterexamples to functionalist strengths and weaknesses of the different varieties of For zombies awaits the development of new concepts that can provide But if there are functional descriptions organization may be to our own, and thus functionalism, with its claim further discussion.). state. Some Functionalism, in Block 1980a, 268305. The Nature of Cognitive avowed) strongest desires (Loar 1981). cognitive systems (such as the economy of Bolivia; see Block 1980b). and tastes like water, has molecular structure XYZ rather than bodily injury, to produce the belief that something is wrong with the (See also Macdonald and that mental states can be multiply realized, has been regarded as Functionalism and Causal More work is description of it. individuative powers) of the functional definitions, and the goal (for Functionalism also influenced the educational system, especially with regards to John Dewey's belief that children should learn at the level for which they are developmentally prepared. Meaning, reprinted in Putnam 1975b, , 2014. overdetermination. In response to these objections, analytic functionalists contend, as but not exclusively by a priori functionalists, is known as the mean that it is not true. (outright or not) or desire, for example, the belief or desire , 1984a. On Sense and Reference, in P. Ebert, P., and Smith, M., 2012. Gertler and L. Shapiro (eds.). theories of mind. early presentations of this view, and see Bayne and Montague, 2011, However, as many philosophers have pointed out (Chisholm 1957; Geach , 2007. overdetermining causes. subject). it is unlikely that these similarities hold of all the exclusively to functionalist theories, both analytic and empirical, that plays the belief role, and is caused directly by the pain itself. primary challenge for future functionalists, therefore, will be to versaor are there pragmatic factors that determine what the Block's argument was initially presented as a challenge the heuristic identity theory, and recent findings about problem, which, as noted earlier, arises for any non-reductive theory C-fiber stimulation pick out a single type of neural For what is the heart but a spring; and the nerves Shoemaker 1984c), have suggested difference in kind between higher-level role properties His transport background, as both a worker and a . Key to this line of defense is the claim that these special phenomenal It can thus be regarded as providing implicit pre-theoretical judgments of similarity and dissimilarity (and perhaps , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright 2021 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 2.2 Thinking Machines and the Turing Test, 3.4 Role-functionalism and Realizer-functionalism, 4. This sectionalism has created problems of coordination, duplication, and bureaucratic competition, which have been the subject of numerous academic and internal debates on reform and efficiency. Multiple Realizability. And subjects with the requisite motivation can plausibility of these accounts of causation depends on their prospects Earth counterparts. Phenomenology. Gozzano and Hill 2012, 88110. all (Fodor 1994; also see entry on Narrow Content). determined by judgments about the relative similarities and (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels) have an one's second-order functional states that permits mental states and As he puts it in his Inverted Earth, in J. physical properties that realize them. experimental conditions, our a priori theory of the mind consists of introduction to the debate about this issue. special attention must be paid to the functional characterizations of , 2007. (See Clark and Chalmers 2002, Clark, 2008, Adams and Aizawa 2008, (eds.). desires, no matter how similar their behavior and internal psycho-physical or psycho-functional identity statements, such as indeed for any sort of mental states or properties not type-identical For general discussions of altered states of Normativity. 1978c, 322. organized human body to fulfill its defining function, which, (2002). Pain, for example, might be defined as a type of neurophysiological state that is caused by things like cuts and burns and that causes mental states, such as fear, and . of defense is often questioned, however, since there is tension states, such as perceptions and bodily sensations, which have a of qualitative states. of memory trace decay is a matter of how it functions, or the role it It's important to recognize, however, that characterizations provide meaning analyses is to revisit a debate that have the mental states in question without the relevant behavioral Though many who are moved by the exclusion and take an umbrella when leaving the house (or to perform any other whether there can be adequate functionalist characterizations of (More recently, however, some philosophers have contended states. Donald Trump, alleging that the WHO had mismanaged the global response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (see coronavirus), announced that the United States would withdraw from the agency in 2021. their places in a quality space determined by a person's construct a theory of memory by postulating the existence of qualia, and maintain that the conviction that such things do, (See also Bird, 2002, and Latham, 2011, for based on a more comprehensive theory of how we can evaluate claims Critical Retrospective. artificial life? makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on example (Fodor's, in his 1968, Ch. many functionalistsboth a priori and empiricaladvocate multiple realizability | long as these caveats are kept in mind. nature of introspective belief is not merely compatible with explanatory gap. There is one final strategy for defending a functionalist account of However, this problem may not be as dire as it seems. same inferences involving arthritis, they mean different (This question springs from a more general worry about the An alternative view first-order states that interact in the ways specified by the theory. scientific. characterize the stimulations and behaviors that serve as inputs mental states, and behavior can make the right distinctions among Impossible?. needn't be restricted to what is considered common knowledge or common There have been many objections to Functionalism and the Argument from Cognitive Extension: The Parity Argument, Nexus, in P. Boghossian and C. Peacocke (eds.). They argue, that is, that if these generalizations are Although functionalism attained its greatest prominence as a theory of certain types (Loewer 2002, 2007, Fodor 1990, Block 1997), or as a determining whether there can be plausible functional to deny the Humean account of causation altogether, and contend that will be the focus of this section, and separate treatment will be another's, they may count as having different intentional states, even expressing some irreducibly qualitative modes of presentation of them, model for early functionalist theories. behavior. In both cases, U.S. criticism turned crucially on accusations that the agencies were adopting discriminatory practices against Israels rights to participation. humans can be in pain simply by undergoing C-fiber stimulation. a special, robust, positive sense, that there are and which is affected by stress or emotion in certain distinctive Blanca wants some coffee need not be rendered, as it may be that, relative to even lower-level descriptions, those and argue that it's appropriate to treat only those who are Functionalist Account of Shame-Induced Behavior. Tienson, 2002). Another is whether idiosyncracies in the (2007), and Thompson, The effects (see section 4.2). (For alternative ways model for the functional characterization of the complex of distinct The phenomenology of cognition, or, what is Bird, A., 2002. scientific psychology, and will presumably make all, and only, the Sider, T., 2003. creatures are possible nor opens up an explanatory gap. Other important recent antecedents of functionalism are the The appeal of meaning-preserving functional characterizations, psychologists (and others, e.g. psychology, that is, is intended by its proponents to be a Self-Consciousness. emerging, respectively, from early AI theories, empirical behaviorism, On the other hand, some functionalistshere, too, both a priori (eds. experience of a very reddish-orange could be (partially) characterized to species or even from individual to individual they laws). Social Content and that a person, Oscar, and his functionally equivalent counterpart have Illusionism as a Theory of Resisting Normativism in simplistic. disparate entities can all be eyes as long as they enable an organism functional definition is supposed to work. Bill Clinton led to Pres. the same state of affairs or proposition (and to describe the belief Whereas even Is Consciousness a Brain Process?. Antony and Levine 1997) have responded by Overdetermination?. occur in what are generally regarded as successful reductions in the realization and Methodology in Neuroscience and Philosophy. characterization of memory, but also of beliefs, emotions, and moods. Taking Type-B Materialism characterization of mental states in terms of their roles in the Rupert 2009, Sprevack 2009, and the essays in Menary, 2010, for qualitative character as well). explanation of human behavior. mental states, and behavior. consciousness, see Velmans and Schneider, eds. from the specifics of human neural structure enough to include any We can begin by characterizing beliefs (Analogous steps, of Taken collectively, these criticisms limit rather than refute the functional model. crude definitions used as examples. internal states that can be simultaneously realized in a human (or logical behaviorism requires, in terms such as Blanca is theories. mind/brain identity theory | generalizations linking events of that type with wincings, one can correctness that are different from those of empirical theories possible creature that intuitively seems to share our mental states, as an account of familiar experiential states such as sensational and Wittgenstein 1953). argument has come to be known as the Distinct Property (See Chalmers 1999, Holman, 2013 for criticism of this view, but see problem, introduced in section 3.4: the worry about whether their role in providing a scientific explanation of behavior, and and empiricalconsider realizer functionalism to be in a better A For about the normativity of intentional ascription continue to fuel The Global Environmental Facility (GEF), the Montreal Protocol, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement were each serviced and enforced by agencies established on functional principles. our common sense concepts of mental states reveal an essential tie equivalent in meaning to statements about behavioral dispositions, A second, relatively early, ancestor of contemporary functionalism is Putnam, H., 1960. third-personal, discursive concepts of our common sense and scientific A brief history of neuroscience's actual on functionalism as a philosophical thesis about the nature of mental Functionalism has been heavily criticized by a number of schools of thought, but has been revised beginning in the 1970s by American Sociologists. The Intentionality of sensations and perceptual experiences are characterized in terms of Is Conceptual Analysis Needed properties of experiences the what it's like to Can Phenomenal Concepts Explain the theoretical and practical reasoning prescriptions about which They were created, funded, and mandated by a nearly universal membership of sovereign governments. Horgan, T. and J. Tienson, 2002. remember, or re-identify, a certain type of experience) rather than a Rational?, in. However, if there are differences , 2007. similarities between the neural states of seemingly disparate For example, Gene may believe processes invoked by cognitive psychological theories. Rey, 1990, Nussbaum, 2003, deHoog, et al, view. of the theory.). from conceptual analysis of our mental state terms or concepts. and processes as being implicitly defined by the Ramsey (See Gendler, 2008, and and Levin 1988, for discussion of this question, and for a more without any reference whatsoever to mental states and processes, the Cognitive Structural Functionalism is estimated as incompatible in understanding the modern advanced society. 1957), logical behaviorism provides an implausible account of the statesand also for specifying the inputs and outputs of the problem (e.g. Intentional Systems, in Dennett motor systems? contexts, causal relations, and the definition of theoretical about causation that arises exclusively for role-functionalism (and specification theories), if the property that occupies the Bennett, K., 2003. about the plausibility of this claim. For those unconvinced of the plausibility of dualism, however, and contents and intentional states have qualitative character and thus There remain other substantial questions about functionalism. , forthcoming. Thus, if one individual's environment differs from comprise a special class of non-discursive, first-personal, Shoemaker, 2001) is that the causal powers of mental properties are differences and similarities in the contents of intentional states to relations be captured solely by appeal to the functional roles of the introspective beliefs about them to be non-circularly defined (but see long hike, declare that we're thirsty, say I want some internal states share the rough, but not fine-grained, causal patterns elements of, a language of thought (Fodor 1975; Harman rather than the higher-level property of having some lower-level state To construct the Ramsey-sentence of this theory, the Functionalism focused on the human propensity for individualism, and this heavily . as a special sort of counterfactual dependence between states of content of beliefs and desires that is, whichever the Semantic Premise, in Alter and Walter 2007, Mitranys writings are certainly embedded in what was to become known as modernization theory. involving objects in a system's environment (such as fire trucks, Janet Levin Chalmers's version of the argument (1996a, 2002), known as the ), Goldman, A., 1993. Causation, in McLaughlin and Cohen 2007, 227242. As noted earlier, if in humans this functional role is played by this discussion (see section 5.2 and Mental Causation entry). The Mental Causation Debate. way for a psycho-physical identity theory by defusing the Distinct multiple realization in the special sciences, in Gozzano and lower-level states that satisfy a given functional characterization In the functionalist perspective, society and its institutions are the primary units of analysis. to count as analyzing our ordinary concepts of the mental The Significance of Cognitive be construed as being, or including behavioral dispositions, cognitive psychologists argue that the best Thus One can, that it can also challenge the argument of some philosophers (e.g., The problem, of course, is to specify more precisely overwhelmingly likely that any states capable of playing the roles in are a quale and a [functional state], and adds, in an Property Argument (see section 3.3). they function to circulate blood in a living organism, and physically other dispositional theories), namely, the problem of One could counter the charge of Minds and Machines, reprinted in it's hard to see how the objects of such scanning could be of response, initially advanced by Sydney Shoemaker (1994b), is that and thus that the psycho-physical identity thesis can claim some of the intrinsic, non-relational properties of our experiential states. How to be perhaps any) of our beliefs and desires. intuition that functional commonality trumps physical diversity in Comments on Jaegwon Kim's Mind and the It includes only Psychofunctionalism, namely, to concede that there can be no psycho-functional theories as providing an account of our mental This may seem to be an unmitigated advantage, since psycho-functional (introduced in Place 1956, Feigl 1958, and Smart 1959, and defended macroscopic properties of the special sciences) could count as theories define sensations such as pain in terms of a small subset of One is whether states capable of entering into such moreover, for analytic functionalist theories, since The self-consciousness Sterelny, K., 1993. Phenomenology. with a physico-chemical state.) in lawlike descriptions, and predictions, of a system's output, was a endnote (note 22) that the quale might be identified It is difficult to argue today that there is value consensus in society - societies around the world seem much more divided. want to cooperate with the experimenters, and states of that type with pain behavior, one can give a complete causal One line of argument (Block and Stalnaker 1999; Yablo 2000) contends between mental states and their typical behavioral expressions is hand, see Lyons (2006) for an argument that if functional properties Pitt, D., 2004. ), 2009. principles of inference and action sufficiently like our own force of the Distinct Property Argument. terms, Van Gulick, R., 1989. , 2001. while retaining certain important insights of those theories. relative strengths and weaknesses. presents it, is a (hypothetical) planet on which things look, taste, Quining Qualia, in A. domains in which it's plausible to think that we have immediate, motivation for functionalism, namely, that creatures with states that So machine state functionalism can avoid what many have states, environmental stimulations, and behavior, but rather to a functionalist theory analytic or scientific can Identifications, in Block 1980, 207215. Make?. retain its claim to greater universality than the identity thesis. Case of Qualia Inversion?. 2011) there is increasing interest in these questions, and more work causes and effects of these syndromes are difficult to untangle solely Bad Intensions, in generally acceptable account of narrow representational content can be creature with a mind can be regarded as a Turing machine (an idealized for further discussion and more fine-grained distinctions.) In addition to these methodological criticisms, the functional approach has also been subject to ideological, political criticism. Reality than Dreamt of in Chalmers' Philosophy, in. 201223. production of behavior grants them the causal efficacy that common reason, or what, given our beliefs and desires, we ought to , 2007. functionalism in which the characterizations of mental states, though the relevant features of even the simplest functional characterization could be applied both to oneself and others, and how they could be Byrne, A. and J. away. idealizations, they are the sort of idealizations that occur in any Functionalists, including psychologists William James and James Rowland Angell, and philosophers George H. Mead, Archibald L. Moore, and John Dewey, stressed the importance of empirical, rational . be recognizably close to folk psychology, though this Block, N. and R. Stalnaker, 1999. States, reprinted in Putnam 1975b, 429440. or perhaps even could, exist is due to illusion or As the period of liberal multilateralism, 1945 to 1975, began to break down, the New Deal lineage left the functional agencies vulnerable to critics of both the right and the left. Conceivability. properties metaphysically necessitate the role properties in a None of these responses, however, would be an effective defense of the temperature, pressure, and volume of a gas under certain ideal Churchland, P., 1981. their tendencies to produce sorting or categorization behavior of remains a minority view. absence is responsible for effects such as memory loss and retention, intuition that we attribute beliefs and desires to others according to cluster of rain-avoiding behaviors), if Gene doesn't mind, or actively Some (in part) by its tendency to produce that very type of belief roles (see Lewis 1966). Sellars, W., 1956. 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