What is functionalism? Critically assess its main advantages and disadvantages.
Date Submitted: 02/12/2004 05:25:14
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 15 pages (4076 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 15 pages (4076 words)
Functionalism is one of the major proposals that have been offered as solutions to the mind/body problem. Solutions to the mind/body problem usually try to answer questions such as: What is the ultimate nature of the mental? At the most general level, what makes a mental state mental? Or more specifically, What do thoughts have in common in virtue of which they are thoughts? That is, what makes a thought a thought? What …
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…beralism.
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