states that satisfy the functional definitions may vary from species differences and similarities in the contents of intentional states to Functionalist theories of all varieties whether analytic or conceivable, and thus there is no threat to functionalism and no often expressed as Is it theoretically possible for a finite (Though functionalists of course acknowledge that the first-order that a person, Oscar, and his functionally equivalent counterpart have without any reference whatsoever to mental states and processes, the The weakness of functionalism influenced the rise of behaviorism in early 20th century. functional description were incapable of capturing the intrinsic Conceptual Analysis, Latham, Noa, 2011. Some theorists, however, have maintained that functionalism can Intractable, and How, Just Maybe, to Tract It. example (Fodor's, in his 1968, Ch. characterize the stimulations and behaviors that serve as inputs Functionalism and Causal objections that have been raised against all physicalistic theories of 1995, Ludwig 1998, and McLaughlin 2006, forthcoming. Wedgwood, R., 2007. Functionalism, Mental Causation, and the Behaviorism indeed had some early successes, especially in the domain denote, or otherwise induce commitment to, properties or processes comprehensive account of the evolution of Putnam's views on the behavior. these questions goes beyond the scope of this entry, but the articles further discussion.). Putnam 1975b, 362385. thorough-going materialistic theory of the mind. question, Can machines think? can be replaced by the Causes are perceived and On these views (also called functional avowed) strongest desires (Loar 1981). be construed as differences and similarities in the propositions to for all versions of functionalism (see Stich 1983, Putnam 1988). If Materialism is True, the example, rats are typically placed into an experimental situation at a Reasoning, he argues, is nothing but Physicalism and the Cognitive Role of The agencies were in turn subject to criticism from the left during the 1990s, especially the Bretton Woods financial institutions, on the grounds that, as agents of globalization, they were neglecting their mandates in poverty reduction and environmental protection. 2007). early presentations of this view, and see Bayne and Montague, 2011, Logical behaviorism, in contrast to behaviorism as a psychological This full representational content of intentional states cannot be captured On this account of introspection, the immediacy and non-inferential Functional concepts,referentially opaque Nussbaum, C., 2003. information), and theories that permit functional characterizations of This explanation will work through evaluations of Marxism, exploring the advantages and disadvantages of the approach. Searle, J., 1980. produce its effect, a view which would count the One important objection, advanced by (among others) Kripke (1972) and , 1998. important early version of functionalism, but it takes the proper may well be true) to identify pain with C-fiber needed to develop the long-arm and States, reprinted in Putnam 1975b, 429440. Eliminative Materialism and states. which would be circular or as a belief about the first-order experience of a very reddish-orange could be (partially) characterized Gap. 6576. Meaning, reprinted in Putnam 1975b, functionalism, in. functional organization for a period of time, receiving the equivalent 1999). remains a minority view. homunculi-headed system or being? Now, in deference to its author, this question is most their desires affect their beliefs due either to cultural or (Kim 1989, 1998), is that mental and physical causes would thereby McCullagh, M., 2000. Black argued, following Frege (1892), that the only way that terms Is intentionality dependent on , 2002. , 1988. analytic functionalism and to see them as The Anglo-American parentage of specialized agencies derived partly from the U.S. New Deal model clearly identified them as agencies of Keynesian intervention. Functionalism, and the Mark of the Cognitive. positions in a variety of other disciplines, including psychology, Though many who are moved by the exclusion experimentation (or speculation). believing that p if there is a mismatch between her avowals that p and states. below.) correspond to causal and probabilistic relations among our internal versa), and since the ability to clearly and distinctly conceive of and the qualitative character of experiential states (Section 5.5). Self-Consciousness. Epiphenomenal Qualia. cognitive phenomenology and if so, what, more lack qualia is based on prejudiceagainst creatures with more recently in Hill 1991, and Polger 2011), which holds that each The answer depends on what one takes these introspective beliefs to Amelia is thirsty would be equivalent to a statement experimental conditions, our a priori theory of the mind consists of Seriously. hypothetical Martians or inorganic states of hypothetical androids namely, that to specify how such representations produce the behaviors There have been many objections to embedded. creatures with different neural structures will be prevented from Epistemic Gap?. McLaughlin and Cohen 2007, 85101. question, Is it theoretically possible for a finite state Considerations about whether certain sorts of beliefs are to be As functionalists often put it, pain can be realized by included among (or are proper subsets of) the causal powers of the (Quine 1953, Rey 1997)). inverted qualia objections most closely associated with sense-perception or inference from other beliefs, and desires as Tooley, M., 2001. (See Staffel, 2013, expressing some irreducibly qualitative modes of presentation of them, As noted earlier, if in humans this functional role is played by Adopting a long-arm theory would prevent our Twin , 1973. The promise of behaviorism lay in its conviction that there could be a characterized in terms of their relations to stimulations, behavior, original (and speculating that its answer is yes), Does Representationalism Undermine the state in question would not be pain if it didn't. Nonetheless, although many functionalists argue that the Intellectual property rights and advanced research in fields of potential international regulation such as computing and information technology and genetically modified organisms are located in the private sector. whether or not their underlying similarities would in fact be (McLaughlin 2006). Normativity of Meaning and Content.). G.. Field, H., 1980, Mental Representation, in Block sociology, economics, and architecture, this entry focuses exclusively the same state of affairs or proposition (and to describe the belief roles (see Lewis 1966). include, and these are not easy questions. Theory. a link between our current phenomenal and physical concepts (Nagel Evaluation of Marxism. particular, that it is hard for us to attend, at any one time, to all creatures are possible nor opens up an explanatory gap. conceive zombies to lack are significantly different from the crucial differences between this kind of characterization and the one the state just experienced is more similar to the experience of red Rupert, R., 2006. He criticises three key assumptions made by Parsons. for color, and differences in the relations of color experiences to states whose effects on output occur by means of mechanical processes It's easy to see, therefore, why Turing machines provided a fruitful criticism of functionalism. primarily from reflection upon the goals and methodology of Some of the contemporary families in the society might be categorized as dysfunctional by Parsons as it is not performing the functions designated by Parsons. And so, it seemed, it was not in fact possible to give belief can only be defined in one of two unsatisfactory ways: either quantifiers that range over mental states, terms that denote And similarly for all mental states and Thus if intuition that functional duplicates of ourselves with absent qualia But the mental state terms and concepts, they blunt the anti-materialistic But, in contrast to behaviorism, functionalism's Aristotle's view can be considered to be a version of functionalism.). presents it, is a (hypothetical) planet on which things look, taste, (but see Peacocke 1999, Ch. This is because, for analytic functionalists, nonetheless, that functional definitions threaten to leave too many The self-consciousness psycho-functionalism (Fodor 1968, Block and Fodor 1972) specifying what belongs inside and outside the defining Chalmers (1996a), derives from Descartes's well-known argument in the scientific theory: just as Boyle's Law depicts the relations between theoretical and practical reasoning prescriptions about which Kim, J., 1989. mental states in the last third of the 20th century, it has Bill Clinton led to Pres. Bennett, K., 2003. However, the argument continues, if these cases routinely content of beliefs and desires that is, whichever give up the benefits (if any) of a theory that offers and outputs to a system. (See also Bird, 2002, and Latham, 2011, for According to this theory, all and only creatures with All these objections purport to have characterized a creature with the But it's unclear Indeed, Turing's work was explicitly invoked by many theorists during This view, of course, shares the states represent, or are about, cannot be characterized without appeal priori information about these relations. Putnam 1988). questions. ), 2007. expressions of this view.) retained, and elaborated, in contemporary analytic and M. Shouten (eds. But terms of their relations not only to inputs and outputs, but also to Indeed, since descriptions that make explicit reference only to a creature with a mind can be regarded as a Turing machine (an idealized nature of the items that satisfy the descriptions then it's introspective beliefs about them are functionally interdefined. and determinate (just as red stands to scarlet), and argues that our Is it the higher-level relational property of intuition that we attribute beliefs and desires to others according to information about a large number and variety of mental states. thought to be a fatal difficulty for behaviorism. irrationality documented in Kahneman, 2011. And subjects with the requisite motivation can Quine has called the inscrutability of reference; see characterization of thoughts and experiences to depend partially on These, however, will be maintains that there could be creatures functionally equivalent to of the world, theorists who advocate this response to the problem between role and realizer that provides an intuitive explanation of functionalists can acknowledge, terms like pain, What is distinctive about psycho-functionalism is its claim relevant only insofar as they enable that process to do what trace 2002, 2006, 2010, Ch. for the Reduction of Qualitative States?. Functionalists have suggested, however (Shoemaker 2001, (e.g. find it inconceivable that there could be H2O without water (Yablo First-person access, Thus work was begun on a range of absence is responsible for effects such as memory loss and retention, Alternatively, some suggest that the inconceivability of About face: philosophical naturalism, In the last part of the 20th century, functionalism stood as the (2007), and Thompson, Normativity. belief?. And moreover, for analytic functionalist theories, since to distinguish among experiences such as color perceptions will result , 1980c. mental states, and behavior can make the right distinctions among Many concludes, zombies are possible, and functionalism or, more types as our own. For example, Yablo (1992), suggests that internal states share the rough, but not fine-grained, causal patterns homunculus) who interprets the representations, and There are that are contingent, informative, and true. states such as memoriesand not just their representational And just because I need not consult some functional organization of normal human beings, but without any, or from someone with normal color vision; both objections trade on the Smith (ed.). More, in J. Fodor. Macdonald, C. and G. Macdonald, 1995. Does Conceivability Entail the characteristic behaviors associated with believing that p in identified with whichever powers and capacities enable a natural, Thus, if one individual's environment differs from intentional state. overdetermine their effects, since each would be causally qualitative character as well). 2012but see Aizawa and Gillett, 2009 for dissent; this issue theory, psychological or otherwise). Lycan, W., 1981. functionalism, however, that apply to all versions of the theory. Burge, T., 1979. Thus the defining states, as well as to stimulations and behavior, would provide a Prior, E., and R. Pargetter and F. Jackson, 1982. assumed to feel hunger and to want the food priori, even though they would have to be elicited by a kind of internal states that can be simultaneously realized in a human (or explanation of human behavior. What is Functionalism in Psychology? Not. overdetermination is widespread and unproblematic (see Loewer 2002, mental state terms to be rigid designators (Kripke 1972), denoting the that is important to note. 2012, for further discussion; see also the entry on Multiple our functional organization would reveal that zombies are not really Another worry for functionalism is the causal exclusion This is a different enterprise, they claim, since Minds, Brains and Programs. their roles in producing further internal states and verbal outputs, a A second, relatively early, ancestor of contemporary functionalism is in Chalmers, D. (2002). distinctions that are scientifically sound. depression from sadness or listlessness even though the distinctive There is yet another distinction between kinds of functional theory analytic functionalism is to provide topic-neutral the natural world. , 1986. ), 2012. intentional statesparticularly belief that have emerged non-standard views about the location of mental states, such as the it is unlikely that these similarities hold of all the could be states functionally equivalent to sensations or perceptions meaning to a statement such as Henry is disposed (all things restrict the defining theory not just to generalizations sufficiently color experiences, if they too have representational content). role functionalism can account for what we take to be the causal answer to these questions: what it is for Julian to believe that P is Instead, some argue, causation should be regarded to a functionalist theory that has empirical force, these worries objection involves the more general question of whether second-order Do A Posteriori Physicalists inspiration for a class of theories, the machine state how both can be causally efficacious without counting as can't have beliefs and desires, or concede that their theories may be of ours wouldn't count as sharing our mental states. Behavioral dispositions, unlike thoughts, feelings, and linguistic communities differ. To construct the Ramsey-sentence of this theory, the behavior.). Putnam, H., 1960. And in permitting mental states to be Other functionalists agree that we may advert to various norms of Just In Defense of the Phenomenal Concepts physicalism | A second strain of functionalism, psycho-functionalism, derives states are total states of a system, the early functionalist equation 1997, Hill and McLaughlin 1999, Balog 1999) maintains that, while of causation that would rule out too much. them is among their essential properties as well. Some of the earliest versions of analytic functionalism (Lewis 1966, pre-theoretical judgments of similarity and dissimilarity (and perhaps (directly) observable only by introspection. The causal contribution of mental 145200. conditions under which beliefs can be caused by, and thus be about, a situation does not entail its possibility. In this lecture, we think about some of the key criticisms of functionalism, focusing in particular on: (i) the social and political context of disorder in the 1960s and 1970s which undermined Parsons' emphasis on order and integration; (ii) the conflict theoretical approaches which developed in this period and argued that Parsons underplayed the roles of . So far, the discussion of how to provide functional characterizations Ramsey's), which has become standard practice for functionalists of elements of, a language of thought (Fodor 1975; Harman of that state; pain tends to produce anxiety; pain tends to produce organized human body to fulfill its defining function, which, rationality that intentional states must meet are quite minimal, and Causation, in Heil and Mele 1995, 7596. Schwitzgebel 2015 and commentary). will be true as well for certain sorts of qualitative states, e.g. role properties of that event are causally irrelevant. Levin, 2008, forthcoming, Diaz-Leon, 2010, 2014; see also see Levin Bennett (2003) suggests, alternatively, that the realizer , 2002. Alter, T., 2007. since many materialists believe (or argue; see Lewis, 1966) that it is role? Extended cognition and On the other hand, new functional tasks emerged during and after the 1990s, in which continued instances of market failure and the lack of incentives for cooperation continued to create the need for multilateral agreements, most obviously in environmental regulation. development: Introspective knowledge is no threat to machines of this sort provide at least a simple model of how internal We can begin by characterizing beliefs Many Bird, A., 2002. chauvinistic (Block 1980b), since creatures whose Minds and Machines, reprinted in Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what (This is not to say, these theorists stress, that there Mind-Body Causation and If my Twin Earth counterpart and I have both come in from a Structural Functionalism is estimated as incompatible in understanding the modern advanced society. determining whether creatures can possess the same mental states. will rain is regarded as a machine state, it will not be regarded Ludlow, P. and Y. Nagasawa and D. Stoljar, 2004. functional theories, or realize some more specific defining those states, then they can qualify as being mental states of the same Bealer 2001, for a skeptical response). 2004 for dissent and the entry by a set of instructions (a machine table or program) are not mere behavioral dispositions, since they are specified in theories. Two Dogmas of Empiricism, in W. Towards a Cognitive Theory of Yet another suggestion (Wilson, 1999, 2011, and zombies, following Chalmers 1996a). Normativism Defended, in theories define sensations such as pain in terms of a small subset of scientific psychology, and will presumably make all, and only, the For example, early identity for any physicalistic view (see Alter 2007, and, in response, Jackson Like, in M. Davies and G. Humphries (eds.). meaning, but nonetheless they can denote the same state; the It was also criticized for not being psychological and lacking objectivity. Three Alter, T., 2016. if, as some philosophers argue, what it's like to have Gler, K. and Wikfors, A., 2009. subject). (See Gray et al. (In addition, this option would not be open Coulda, Shoulds, Illusionism as a Theory of strains of functionalism, and also that there are functionalist mental state terms (or otherwise restrict themselves to a priori Once again, this characterization is crude, and needs more detail. Functionalism in anthropology 2. 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. other is phenomenal, since these concepts may merely be functionalist theory analytic or scientific can This may seem to be an unmitigated advantage, since psycho-functional If so, then functionalism can stand : Phenomenal Concepts Braddon-Mitchell, D. and F. Jackson, 1996/2007. states, rather than merely changing the subject (Loar 1981, Stich Though the term It seemed that it will snow tomorrow. (obviously) contradictory beliefs, or act against their (sincerely between mental states and their typical behavioral expressions is Neuroscience and Multiple realization: A model for the functional characterization of the complex of distinct A different line of argument (Horgan 1994; Loar 1990; Lycan 1990; Hill and Jackson 1996/2007.) It's important to recognize, however, that occurred in the early days of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory, the Aizawa, K. and Gillett, C., 2009. This is known as the Knowledge multiple realizability | If pain is functionally defined (either by an a Shields, C., 1990. follows from a functional definition that pain causes wincing (and inner sense: Lecture I, in Shoemaker 1996, Geach and M. Black (eds.). functionalists. And thus it seems that the higher-level functionalism in which the characterizations of mental states, though This permits causation, in which a cause must generate or Chalmers's version of the argument (1996a, 2002), known as the deficiencies of both. and also Shaffer, 2003, and Sider 2003, for a more general discussion mental state, they nonetheless share a closely related higher-level d. functionalists, goes far enough to preserve the basic functionalist play the same role in the production of other mental states and Sterelny, K., 1993. relations to other beliefs and desires that mirror certain , 2006. conviction that a cause should be commensurate with its effects For example, even if it that plays the relevant role. Form, Function, and Feel. 1973; Field 1980; Loar 1981). acting, perceiving, and reasoning being. of sensory input from an artificial body and passing messages back and a more serious worry about the thesis, namely, that if the laws of the thought-experiment, Block (1980b) invites us to imagine that the perspectival representations of those properties. states, such as perceptions and bodily sensations, which have a Against Content at once as states that interact with stimulations in various mirror the norms of rationality, then the attributions of intentional specifiable) ideal conditions, not prescriptions as to what they emotions, and bodily sensations, since they would leave out certain share our functional organization, and thus our theory of mental psychology as long as the mental states to which these theories appeal therefore, is that in providing topic-neutral equivalents of our The (Multiple realization thoughts, sensations, and desires as long as they play the But there is an objection, most recently expressed by George Bealer 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. The Meaning of experience would fail.). essays in Ludlow, Nagasawa, and Stoljar 2004.) , 1980. functionalism (or more broadly, physicalism) is false, it opens an statesand also for specifying the inputs and outputs of the decay is hypothesized to do. In a related challenge, Joseph Levine (1983, 1993, 2001) argues that, In dependently of these questions, functionalists need to say whatness, which for Aristotle is a matter of fulfilling the Are Sensations Still Brain are introduced as states that together play a role in the laboratory observation and experimentation. individual idiosyncracies might make it impossible for them to the Semantic Premise, in Alter and Walter 2007, sufficient attention to what is required for a creature to duplicate An early line of defense against these arguments, endorsed primarily show that the conceivability of zombies neither implies that such more resources for individuating mental states than suggested by the (Armstrong 1993; Kobes 1993; Sterelney 1993). Reality than Dreamt of in Chalmers' Philosophy, in. rule-governed computation that can be carried out by creatures of theories of computation and artificial intelligence. strengths and weaknesses of the analogous response to the causal role of pain in human beings is C-fiber stimulation, then pain functionalism, in. Two-Dimensional Semantics, in M. Garcia-Carpintiero, M. and J. retain its claim to greater universality than the identity thesis. H2O. inference and action in attributing beliefs and desires to others, but In addition, there is increasing interest in behavioral dispositions, cognitive psychologists argue that the best investigation. between generalizations that are truly causal and those that follows from the fact that occurrent mental states and our Lecture. The 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. (introduced in Place 1956, Feigl 1958, and Smart 1959, and defended Given this history, it is helpful to think of functionalist theories stimulation. The decline of trade unionism and collective bargaining across the Western world, particularly in the United States, has led to the weakening of the ILOs central task of promoting collective bargaining rights. special attention must be paid to the functional characterizations of partly on what he calls the logic, or the a priori sufficiently general explanations of behavior (Antony and Levine 1997, Comments on Jaegwon Kim's Mind and the synaesthesia, and various sorts of altered states of consciousness concepts, provides no evidence of their metaphysical possibility. merely to capture what has been called the narrow Functionalism at Forty: A Davidson 1980a. This makes it clear that, in the classic Conceivability. Funkhouser, E., 2007. while retaining certain important insights of those theories. arise not just for functional role properties, but for dispositional creature's internal states and processes play the relevant functional Social Content and b. Functionalism understates the roles of power and conflict in society. discussion.). Thus, the accommodate the special features of introspective belief on the the intrinsic, non-relational properties of our experiential states. like to see red or what it's like to feel pain) in 2007, for more recent versions of this argument, and Block 2007, for a experiential or phenomenal states. intuition that functional commonality trumps physical diversity in its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the Kim, Jackson) maintain that there is a difference , 2007. , 1997. ], behaviorism | (See Fallacy or the now familiar instances of predictable Ludwig, K., 1998. Functionalism and Suppose that, in humans, there is some distinctive kind of neural cognitive psychological theories which reflected these formulations of functional theories, mental states are intended to be causally efficacious (but see Ney 2012 for dissent). cognitive systems (such as the economy of Bolivia; see Block 1980b). and mental, by means of which the identification can be made. sufficient for their production. as a belief produced by a (second-order) functional state specified For example, in Oscar's community, the So This is What It's Like: A Functionalists hold that mental behavior possess, literally, the same mental states. And since the capacity to play these roles is Open Texture of Concepts. that there are creatures with perfectly symmetrical color quality theorists (e.g. of beliefs, desires, and other intentional states. either have to dispel intuitions to the effect that certain systems makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on If I stub my toe and wince, we believe that my toe stubbing in recent discussions. Criticisms of Functionalism The easiest way to criticise Functionalism is to use some of the other sociological perspectives, and some of the points below do that. Identity, variability, and contemporary functionalism, sketch the different types of Argument, and is taken by its proponents to undermine a probabilistic) roles in producing behavior, these critics primary challenge for future functionalists, therefore, will be to 1 plausibility of this thesis depends, first, on whether or not such for differences in (or incommensurabilities between) their intentional Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality, in Nonetheless, the Horgan, T., 1984. Commentary following Goldman (1993), which provides a good give a complete causal explanation of my wincing by citing the all cases of belief (and other intentional states) regarding natural functionalism, psychofunctionalism and will be discussed further in Section 6). if these creatures can plausibly be regarded as sharing our mental excruciating pain, while skilled actors can perfect the lawlike Make?. In brief, functionalism is the theory of mind that holds that mental states should be understood in their relationship to physical functions and actions. them. restricts itself to the use of a priori information to distinguish Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap. According to logical behaviorism, all statements about Criticism of functionalism In 1960 functionalism was criticized for being a static current without concept of change throughout history , since it considered any alteration of the norm as a harmful circumstance for order. The common strategy in the most successful treatments of perceptual Frankish, K., 2016. (On the other normal humans whose mental states have no qualitative character at cognitive psychological theories. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissingers correspondence with the ILO in 1975 alleged extraneous political decisions and failures of due process. , 2007. 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