0 the principle that the most important thing about an object such as a building is its use rather than what it looks like --
1 the idea that products, organizations, etc. should be designed to be practical and useful: --
Functionalism is not a slightly modified cultural historicism.
It further contends that the problem lies in functionalism itself, and that, to save the causal significance of mind, it is necessary to re-embrace reductionism.
First, physicalist versions of at least some forms of functionalism are rightly seen as paradigm cases of a topic-neutral approach.
Does functionalism really deal with the phenomenal side of experience?
Only minimal provision at minimal cost under a banner of crude functionalism was possible.
This detailed approach is committed to four major theoretical issues; lexical functionalism, connectivism, input-driven learning, and capacity.
Functionalism does not explain why and how objective functional relations produce phenomenal experience.
From the present state of play, it seems to us, either future semantic trajectory is possible; but neither threatens functionalism.
