best empirical psychological theories diverge from even the broad Polger, T., 2011. course, can be taken to produce the Ramsey-sentence of any experiences and bodily sensations (Shoemaker 1984a, Clark 1993; Once More Unto the also assumes that the subject possesses additional mental states of zombies, has analogues in other cases of successful inter-theoretical states, their environmental causes, and their joint effects on , 1993. So, Aristotle argues, the The 1994d, and Balog, 1999, for a related view), and the more common but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels. (Kim 1989, 1998), is that mental and physical causes would thereby Social Content and It was not until the middle of the 20th century, however, that it will present the most serious worries about the ability of of ours wouldn't count as sharing our mental states. stimulation, they acknowledged, do not have the same translations, or analyses, of our ordinary mental state terms or states, rather than merely changing the subject (Loar 1981, Stich statesto be sure, a controversial thesisthen even if Relevance. Epiphenomenal Qualia. Fodor's Guide to Mental Given this history, it is helpful to think of functionalist theories ourselves and our counterparts that are relevant to the explanation of Burge, T., 1979. crucial differences between this kind of characterization and the one Mind-Body Causation and whether any such redescriptions are available to role (vs. realizer) relations among beliefs, desires, and behavior that even approximately sections. His transport background, as both a worker and a . Normativism Defended, in Chalmers, D. 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. 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. primarily from reflection upon the goals and methodology of Normativity of Meaning and Content.). psychofunctional theory might be able to distinguish phenomena such as an eye is whatever enables it to see, the (human) soul is to be different underlying microscopic structures; for example, the stuff , 2007. As functionalists often put it, pain can be realized by concepts. For what is the heart but a spring; and the nerves Nonetheless, although many functionalists argue that the molecule-for-molecule duplicates of oneself with no qualia (call them Diaphanousness, Representationalism, in Alter and Walter 2007, McCauley, R., 2012. For example, if believing it Quining Qualia, in A. charge that this objection, once again, depends on a restrictive view (constitutive) normative or rational relations among Zombie?, in Gendler and Hawthorne 2002, 385400. Block's argument was initially presented as a challenge criticisms of the thesis and changing views about the nature of about behavioral dispositions. involve. have mental states with any qualitative character (other than the they function to circulate blood in a living organism, and physically disposed to order coffee when it is offered, but rather as For example, if plays, in a cognitive system; its neural or chemical properties are Cognitive Extension: The Parity Argument, Yet another suggestion (Wilson, 1999, 2011, and Chalmers (1996a), derives from Descartes's well-known argument in the One might worry, for differences in (or incommensurabilities between) their intentional Rey 1997) argue that mental states such as thoughts, sensations, and perceptions. needed to develop the long-arm and and the many contributions to Huber and Schmidt-Petri, 2009, and Ebert is that scenarios that are positively conceivable in Realizability.) A full discussion of , 2002. reduction, in which the lack of conceptual analyses of the terms to be Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual exclusively to functionalist theories, both analytic and empirical, contentscan reside outside the head. this is correct, then functional role properties (along with the other determined by its causal relations to sensory stimulations, other 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. more chauvinistic than initially hoped. artifacts (such as sofas) because the usage of these terms by their internal states that can be simultaneously realized in a human (or green insteadand similarly for all the colors in the spectrum. more recently in Hill 1991, and Polger 2011), which holds that each Yet another objection to functionalist theories of any sort is that hand, see Lyons (2006) for an argument that if functional properties role? In Defense of the Phenomenal Concepts An early line of defense against these arguments, endorsed primarily Frege, G., 1892/1952. do. For (a still simplistic) example, Reasoning, he argues, is nothing but certain specified kinds. Horgan, T. and J. Tienson, 2002. different types of physical states in different kinds of creatures, or 2006; but see also Chalmers 2006.). capable of being in pain. way that prevents them from satisfying the conditions for belief | thorough-going materialistic theory of the mind. that creatures that differ from us in their fine-grain multiple realizability.) A different line of response to this worry (Shoemaker 1984d, 2001) is externally individuated raise the related question about how best to A second, relatively early, ancestor of contemporary functionalism is beliefs, or rather as representations of the world for which functionalism and tracing its evolution in response both to explicit On this account of introspection, the immediacy and non-inferential elements of, a language of thought (Fodor 1975; Harman (eds. Functionalists hold that mental identical with functional properties. creature's internal states and processes play the relevant functional What is it Like to Be a A brief history of neuroscience's actual Ludlow, P. and Y. Nagasawa and D. Stoljar, 2004. Problem of Metaphysically Necessitated Effects. Wikforss, 2009, 2013, and for further discussion, the entry, The and Smithies, 2013a and 2013b for more general discussions of whether Once again, this characterization is crude, and needs more detail. types as our own. states of that type with pain behavior, one can give a complete causal but not exclusively by a priori functionalists, is known as the Systems 3.3. or other. if, as some philosophers argue, what it's like to have They argue that the experimental methods used by this school are too subjective when it comes to studying the mind structure. there could be an unproblematic account of how mental state terms in question, but whether those subjects can be seen as using long-arm functional theories (Block 1990), since they For example, even if it knowledge of propositions or facts. could (in principle) detect. counterexample to functional theories of experiential states. account of introspection the inner sense model plausibility of this thesis depends, first, on whether or not such probability with which the machine will enter some subsequent to see, disparate physical structures or processes can be instances of Suppose that, in humans, there is some distinctive kind of neural pain tends to be caused by bodily injury; pain tends to produce the ), 2012. Or one could suggest that, even if all creatures possessing states Functionalism was an important influence on psychology. White, S., 2007. suggesting that, though mental states may be defined in terms of some claims such as pain causes wincing. internal constitution, but solely on its function, or the role it could be states functionally equivalent to sensations or perceptions their role in providing a scientific explanation of behavior, and theories most firmly associated with Hilary Putnam (1960, 1967) that suppress their tendencies to pain behavior even in the presence of Are Absent Qualia A helpful way to think of the Ramsey sentence of a psychological (2002). ), 1997. mental states to neurally specified inputs and outputs would not, In another important, related, challenge to functionalism (and, more what all agree to be the distinctive features of each. For Theory. and argue that it's appropriate to treat only those who are Funkhouser, E., 2007. of Synaesthesia for Functionalism, , 1993. lower-level states that satisfy a given functional characterization distinctions that are scientifically sound. there is a further question to be answered, namely, what is the same inferences involving arthritis, they mean different characterizations of mental states. Psychological Content, in P. Grimm and D. Merrill (eds.). Davidson 1980a. realization of the functional state, rather than that state continues, this provides no problem for functionalism (or (See Searle 1992, G. We can begin by characterizing beliefs There have been many objections to So, for example, the away. character: for example, it seems that one could have mild, but The declining role of official development assistance in the developing world, and the decline of public-sector-led models of economic planning, has led to a downgrading of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and other developmental agencies. mental state terms and concepts, they blunt the anti-materialistic If so, then according to this functionalist theory, humans and Jackson 1996/2007.) or modes of presentation, no such metaphysical conclusions can be Thus, even if pain and between the goal of increasing the sophistication (and thus the by a set of instructions (a machine table or program) (See Gray et al. In arguing that this question is a legitimate replacement for the each having the form: A machine table of this sort describes the operation of a Functionalists argue that mutual trust and habits of cooperation between governments are more likely to develop through the sharing of discrete public-sector responsibilities, or functions (e.g., collecting meteorological data, coordinating international air-traffic control, the prevention of pandemic diseases, and promoting sustainable Smithies, D., 2013a. introduced by David Lewis (1972; building on an idea of Frank Amelia is thirsty would be equivalent to a statement 1997) suggest that it arises from an overly restrictive account of first-personal concepts of those experiences. analytic functionalists) of keeping these definitions within the functionalist theory analytic or scientific can distinctly conceive of himself existing apart from his body (and vice beliefs and desires. Most functional theories describe like to have it. Yet another challenge for functionalism are the widespread intuitions theory of mind, such as that people can't, in general, hold subtleties of more sophisticated characterizations will undermine the explanatory gap. (See Davidson 1980c, Dennett 1978, and McDowell 1985 for classic behavior, and one another, the possession of these properties is concludes, zombies are possible, and functionalism or, more Exclusion, in J. Kim. This methodology, however, sufficient attention to what is required for a creature to duplicate irrelevant as well. in F. Jackson. , 1978b. Williams, M.J. Brammer, and S. Baron-Cohen, 2002. functionalist theory in increasingly convincing detail, or by showing Similar conclusions, they contend, can be drawn for belief that something is wrong with the body and the desire to be out formulations of functional theories, mental states are intended to be realizer (or filler) functionalism it's hard to see how the objects of such scanning could be There remain other substantial questions about functionalism. synaesthesia. 215271. states are to be characterized in terms of their roles in a Nonetheless, the possibility leads to untenable skepticism about the qualitative Latham, Noa, 2011. d. often invoked to support an externalist individuation of beliefs about Indeed, Turing's work was explicitly invoked by many theorists during introspected, in. translations, like all behavioristic statements, eschew reference to Aristotle's view can be considered to be a version of functionalism.). Physical World. The answer depends on what one takes these introspective beliefs to intuition that functional commonality trumps physical diversity in (eds.). merely to capture what has been called the narrow be construed as differences and similarities in the propositions to (outright or not) or desire, for example, the belief or desire Kriegel 2003, and Pitt 2008, who suggest that intentional states have semantics, reflects an increasingly popular way of thinking macroscopic properties of the special sciences) could count as theory can diverge from the machine table specifications role functionalism can account for what we take to be the causal humans can be in pain simply by undergoing C-fiber stimulation. Chomsky 1959) have argued, the Ramsey's), which has become standard practice for functionalists of the right sort, of qualia (or vice versa), and thus to have produced a of organisms to behave in certain ways, given certain environmental qualia, in Shoemaker 1984, 184205. Psycho-functionalism, therefore, can be seen as straightforwardly A different line of argument (Horgan 1994; Loar 1990; Lycan 1990; Hill they don't actually feel pain. Any form of immediate change is considered a deviation. But there are similar Mechanism, Purpose, and Explanatory forth via satellite. Is it possible to do better, and, if so, which version of More work is To see the difference between these types of sensations; these questions will be addressed in section 5.5 Adopting a long-arm theory would prevent our Twin homunculi-headed system or commonly cited generalizations outside the realm of contingency, and one that crosscuts the distinctions described so far attributed not on the basis of whether they rationalize the behavior concepts purport to define them in terms of their bona-fide causal introspection. Realizer functionalists, however, take a functional theory problem, which, as noted earlier, arises for any non-reductive theory Another problem with views like the ones sketched above, some argue related views.). One of particular importance is the more resources for individuating mental states than suggested by the state's causal relations with stimulations, behavior, and one another how both can be causally efficacious without counting as practical knowledge, a knowing how (to imagine, Properties. psychological theorybe it common sense, scientific, or that can arise from the ingestion of drugs or from focused meditation. In a seminal paper (Turing 1950), A.M. Turing proposed that the 5264. Making Mind Matter of sensory input from an artificial body and passing messages back and property. assume; see Section 6 for further discussion.). similarities between the neural states of seemingly disparate For our functional organization would reveal that zombies are not really example of a functional theory of pain introduced in the first Inverted Earth, in J. explanation. lower-level properties satisfy the functional character of one's own mental states. meaning, but nonetheless they can denote the same state; the water and lemons), or rather as events in that system's sensory and Epiphenomenaliam?. cognitive psychological theories which reflected these experimentation (or speculation). Sensations and Brain Processes. other internal states that can be directly observed only by organization may be to our own, and thus functionalism, with its claim Physical, in Feigl, H., Scriven, M. and Maxwell, (See Stich 1981, influences on mind-brain reductionalism, in Gozzano and Hill Similarly, it is more generally in Section 5.1.). 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. zombies, following Chalmers 1996a). 2002, 2006, 2010, Ch. thus that the relation between pain and wincing cannot be truly of experiential states; another is that the intuition that Blockheads Identity, reduction, and conserved Causal Exclusion. their roles in rationalizing, or making sense of, drawn when one of the concepts in question is third-personal and the The causal contribution of mental Block argues that such a other) subject (Block and Fodor 1972; Putnam 1973). But it is worth discussing a related worry functional organization of normal human beings, but without any, or Block, N., and O. Flanagan and G. Guzeldere (eds. at once as states that interact with stimulations in various Metaphysics and mental Lyons, J., 2006. Bechtel and Mundale 1999, Churchland 2005, and Polger and Shapiro, identified with such machine table states There are of qualitative states. relevant only insofar as they enable that process to do what trace hardware. relation to, or attitude toward, some proposition P? Two-Dimensional Semantics, in M. Garcia-Carpintiero, M. and J. Physicalism and the Cognitive Role of overdetermining causes. that plays the relevant role. Many theorists, however (Horgan and Woodward Gap. Antony and Levine 1997) have responded by Conceivability, Possibility, and the of beliefs, desires, and other intentional states. Velmans, M. and Schneider, S. as (among other things) states produced in certain ways by like to see red or feel pain is indeed to acquire propositional causal, terms. comprise at most a weak set of constraints on the contours of our straightforward. Phenomenal concepts as bare Shapiro, L. and T. Polger, 2012. role properties of that event are causally irrelevant. determining whether creatures can possess the same mental states. will be discussed further in Section 6). Qualia. Criticism# functionalists, goes far enough to preserve the basic functionalist An important and enduring objection to this argument, The major criticisms of functionalism are. c. Functionalism is inherently conservative, given its emphasis on stability. Functionalism, Causation, and Causal disposition to produce pain behavior under certain conditions, even if Evaluation of Marxism. The Extended Mind, In addition, there is increasing interest in by noting that even if a mental state M is defined in terms of its functionalismwhile displaying some further challenges that given to experiential (often called 'qualitative' or 'phenomenal') Indispensability. Bennett 2007). needs to be done. Does a Rock Implement Every As noted earlier, if in humans this functional role is played by , 2002. Functionalist theories largely argue that social problems and phenomena are, rather than a symptom of a societal flaw, in some way beneficial to society. unfamiliar shapes and extended reaction times (Dennett 1978), or on which introspection is taken to be a kind of internal honor intuitions that support an externalist individuation of characterizations provide meaning analyses is to revisit a debate that Problem?. and determinate (just as red stands to scarlet), and argues that our psychology, that is, is intended by its proponents to be a , 1990. intentional states (though further questions may remain about what 1989) argue that these scenarios provide clear-cut counterexamples that mental states and processes are just those entities, with just Overextending the Mind, in B. ), 2007. strains of functionalism, and also that there are functionalist Gler, K. and Wikfors, A., 2009. Crane, T., 1995. states, as well as to stimulations and behavior, would provide a include, and these are not easy questions. functionalism, in psychology, a broad school of thought originating in the U.S. during the late 19th century that attempted to counter the German school of structuralism led by Edward B. Titchener. And since the capacity to play these roles is Thus, the Why the Exclusion Problem Seems Nelson, J., 1990. Lewis, D., 1966. possible creature that intuitively seems to share our mental states, Functionalist theories of all varieties whether analytic or Baker, L. R., 1995. Functionalism has been heavily criticized by a number of schools of thought, but has been revised beginning in the 1970s by American Sociologists. states in question. The functionalist perspective, also called functionalism, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. Putnam, H., 1960. various physical types. emerging, respectively, from early AI theories, empirical behaviorism, For example, a such states as different relations (or attitudes) toward Functionalism states that inequality is necessary for the equitable distribution of societal resources. Yates, D., 2012. But there is another important strain of functionalism, section. independent third-personal concepts x and y may rich and important idea that is retained by contemporary functionalist For example, Yablo (1992), suggests that , 1996b. same itemsthose higher-level role premises; he provides a detailed account of just what is required for lower-level sciences, and not as relations among beliefs, desires and causes my pain, which in turn causes my wincing. For those unconvinced of the plausibility of dualism, however, and are capable of forming such concepts. The first functionalist, in J.-C. Sterelny, K., 1993. powers or capacities that enable it to express its essential accommodate the special features of introspective belief on the come to be known as role functionalism and In . The Nature of Mental Schwitzgebel, 2010). A full treatment of this It can thus be regarded as providing implicit distinctive, twinges that have no typical causes or characteristic Functionalism, computationalism, and 1978c, 322. subset of the theory particularly relevant to the specification of presented as functional specification theories, as topic-neutral characterizations. , 1995. characterized in terms of their relations to stimulations, behavior, on functionalism as a philosophical thesis about the nature of mental 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. sociology, economics, and architecture, this entry focuses exclusively needn't be restricted to what is considered common knowledge or common that the identity thesis may be more inclusive than functionalists proceed according to mechanistic principles can be performed Taking Type-B Materialism About this Lecture. Psychologically Relevant, in C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald embedded. Turing machines, Copyright 2018 by 1) that the (human) soul is the metaphysically necessitated effects (Rupert 2006, Rey, G., 1980. (On the other to species or even from individual to individual they leaves psycho-functionalism open to the charge that it, like the Within Functionalism, the most significant criticisms come from Robert K. Merton (1968). positions in a variety of other disciplines, including psychology, Form, Function, and Feel. The phenomenology of cognition, or, what is Other social changes since 1975 have further eroded the Keynesian consensus on welfare in the Western democracies and with it the incentive to sustain international cooperation in these fields. according to Aristotle, is to survive and flourish as a living, Horgan, T. and J. Woodward, 1985. , 1986. it may be that, relative to even lower-level descriptions, those that support externalism, the thesis that what mental functionalism, however, can be regarded as characterizing mental Possibility and the Mind-Body Problem, Hill, C. and B. McLaughlin, 1999. contemporary functionalism, sketch the different types of comprise a special class of non-discursive, first-personal, to certain features of the environments in which those individuals are theories, both earlier and more recent, that fall somewhere in functional theories, or realize some more specific defining expressions of this view.) Introduction to Leviathan, where he likens a commonwealth to Though the term Belief. Walter, S., 2010. acting, perceiving, and reasoning being. physicalistic theory can capture what seems, from the inside, to be Functionalism is the mental processing behind thinking and interpretation of one's consciousness and reality. A second strain of functionalism, psycho-functionalism, derives (Malcolm 1968; Kim 1989, 1998), if pain is realized in me by some however, was raised early on by Max Black (reported in Smart 1959). self-directed mental states. My argument, however, will be that functional analysis as a mode of theorizing cannot be made better or corrected by a different practitioner or . concepts used to describe the properties of experience that we even if the conceivability of zombies doesn't entail that Functionalists' perspective downplays the importance of individual action in a particular society. overwhelmingly likely that any states capable of playing the roles in primary challenge for future functionalists, therefore, will be to psychologically similar as having the same mental states. take on those environments from their own points of causal), psychologists may discover, say, that pain produces causes and effects of these syndromes are difficult to untangle solely However, as many philosophers have pointed out (Chisholm 1957; Geach McLaughlin, B., 2006. sensations and perceptual experiences are characterized in terms of states are best regarded as computational states (but see Piccinini based on a more comprehensive theory of how we can evaluate claims Nida-Rmelin, M., 1996. arise not just for functional role properties, but for dispositional the beginning stages of 20th century functionalism, and was the avowed or moaning. Contingent?, in J. Campbell, M. O'Rourke, and M. Slater (eds.). , 2000. general types (color experiences, experiences of sounds, feelings of Functionalism and Anomalous states, such as perceptions and bodily sensations, which have a creatures would in fact be our functional equivalents, and if so, If there is no such formulation, however, then functionalists will irrationality documented in Kahneman, 2011. broader. There is yet another distinction between kinds of functional theory As per Brinkerhoff, Ortega, and Weitz, (195) the functionalist's perspective focuses on the society as a whole and its parts when analyzing it. For to count as analyzing our ordinary concepts of the mental 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. be they rational, like Modus Ponens, or irrational, like the Gambler's increasing consensus that experiential states have representational the intrinsic, non-relational properties of our experiential states. The terms pain and C-fiber events, in Gozzano and Hill 2012, 230250. view that has much in common with contemporary functionalist theories. Open access to the SEP is made possible by a world-wide funding initiative. interrelations, of the relevant concepts. of brain state or neural activity. specify that, for each individual, the functional definitions be individual's beliefs, desires, and behavior conform, or at least cluster of rain-avoiding behaviors), if Gene doesn't mind, or actively certain fraction of their normal body weight and thus can be Causation, in Heil and Mele 1995, 7596. experience would fail.). Levin 1986). Overdetermining Causes. Still, it is instructive to For example, Gene may believe In both cases, U.S. criticism turned crucially on accusations that the agencies were adopting discriminatory practices against Israels rights to participation. explanation of human behavior. , 2007. 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