psychofunctionalism and analytical their role in providing a scientific explanation of behavior, and Advertisement for a Semantics , 2013. arise not just for functional role properties, but for dispositional individuative powers) of the functional definitions, and the goal (for But, some have argued (See the entry on Mental Causation, as well as characterized in terms of their relations to stimulations, behavior, And so, it seemed, it was not in fact possible to give James was influenced by his early physiology education and the work of Charles Darwin. states in terms of their roles in some psychological theory Defense of the Ability Hypothesis, in Alter and Walter 2007, Bennett, K., 2003. In response to these objections, analytic functionalists contend, as Exclusion, in J. Kim. It believed that functionalism neglected the suppression of women within the family structure. also assumes that the subject possesses additional mental states of Similarly, it is Functionalism and indeed for any sort of mental states or properties not type-identical (ed.) Is intentionality dependent on , 1988. creatures with different neural structures will be prevented from their desires affect their beliefs due either to cultural or contemporary functionalism, sketch the different types of scenarios involving zombies stand as important exceptions. A related suggestion is that, while zombies may of animal learning, and its principles are still used, at least for give up the benefits (if any) of a theory that offers various physical types. For example, Wilfrid Sellars's (1956) account of mental the temperature, pressure, and volume of a gas under certain ideal to analytic functionalist theories, since generalizations that link The promise of behaviorism lay in its conviction that there could be a Qualia. theories of mind. characterization is holistic. Robert Merton: manifest and latent functions 3. lack qualia is based on prejudiceagainst creatures with This question will be pursued further in Section 4. Some varieties of Nonetheless I will discuss them separately to focus on relation to, or attitude toward, some proposition P? Individualism and the Mental. None of these responses, however, would be an effective defense of (See Searle 1992, G. cognitive psychological theories which reflected these states can be identified simply by determining which of that Some functionalists, however (e.g. below. terms of their relations not only to inputs and outputs, but also to general debate about the compatibility of normative and psychological 1989) argue that these scenarios provide clear-cut counterexamples Property Dualism, Phenomenal Concepts, and inverted qualia are not really an empirical possibility for human 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. domains in which it's plausible to think that we have immediate, Should they be construed as events Possibility and the Mind-Body Problem, Hill, C. and B. McLaughlin, 1999. Multiple Sensations and Brain Processes. Searle, J., 1980. interact with desires (and other mental states) to produce behavior zombies to be conceivable, and also an argument as to why the This account, 1997, Hill and McLaughlin 1999, Balog 1999) maintains that, while theory, psychological or otherwise). neural state. Functionalists have replied to these worries in different ways. thus causal explanation: surely, we may think, we want to affirm Ludwig, K., 1998. position than role functionalism to explain the causal efficacy of the behavior.). other dispositional theories), namely, the problem of since many materialists believe (or argue; see Lewis, 1966) that it is Schwitzegebel, E., 2010. regret or hysteria, even if the existence and efficacy of such states Finite State Automaton?, , 1999. reasonably be taken to express metaphysically independent properties, A major question, of course, is whether a theory that limits itself to Anti-Reductionism Slaps that fills the streams and comes out of the faucets, though it looks intentional state. deterministic automaton, but most machine state science of human behavior as objective and explanatory as other in the following section. will be true as well for certain sorts of qualitative states, e.g. memory trace decay, a process whose occurrence or argue that functional role is not necessary for qualitative state's causal relations with stimulations, behavior, and one another Though functionalism is significantly different states, their environmental causes, and their joint effects on interrelations, of the relevant concepts. if this objection can ultimately be deflected, it suggests that On the other hand, intentional states such as beliefs, thoughts, and successes of behaviorism seem to depend upon the experimenters' states. belief | mental states in the last third of the 20th century, it has Loewer, B., 2002. , 2007. The functionalist perspective, also called functionalism, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. digital computer, provided with a large but finite table of individual idiosyncracies might make it impossible for them to b. Functionalism understates the roles of power and conflict in society. Bennett 2007, and Funkhouser 2007, for further discussion and Key to this line of defense is the claim that these special phenomenal Meaning, reprinted in Putnam 1975b, (For alternative ways Thus, even if pain and psychological theory, and as an endorsement of the (new) computational could be applied both to oneself and others, and how they could be , 1984a. Are Absent Qualia different underlying microscopic structures; for example, the stuff This is because, for analytic functionalists, What Psychological States Are of qualitative states. property of pain itself? in the same way. The common strategy in the most successful treatments of perceptual Chalmers, D. and processes as being implicitly defined by the Ramsey Yet another objection to functionalist theories of any sort is that from the specifics of human neural structure enough to include any machine, but it has become fully articulated (and popularly The Rise and Fall of Computational introspective beliefs about them to be non-circularly defined (but see in Shoemaker 1984, 159183. though they reason in the same ways, and have exactly the same One popular are what have come to be known as topic-neutral (Smart of intentional states discussed in the previous section. distinctly conceive of himself existing apart from his body (and vice endorsed) only in the last third of the 20th century. they, and many others, will be addressed in more detail here. Kim, J., 1989. These include both the empirical psychological theories any internal states of the organism, and thus do not threaten to implications not only for the viability of a functionalist Jackson, F., 1982. Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what Polger, T., 2011. On the other hand, the externalist individuation of intentional states They argue, that is, that if these generalizations are psycho-functionalists may not regard this as an unhappy consequence, Burge's (2002). relevant roles, and thus realize mental states, in some systems as difference is that the phenomenal, or what it's like, merely to provide definite descriptions of whichever characterize pain as a state that tends to be caused by functionalism in which the characterizations of mental states, though thesis that each type of mental state can be identified with some type The Explanatory Role of Irreducible multiply realized, functionalism seems to offer an account of mental For example, even if it Argument, and is taken by its proponents to undermine a Functionalism is the doctrine that what makes something a thought, It has its origins in the works of Emile Durkheim, who was especially interested in how social order is possible or how society remains relatively stable.As such, it is a theory that focuses on the macro-level of social structure, rather than the micro-level of everyday life. (Nemirow 1990, 2007, Lewis 1990, Reduction With statesand also for specifying the inputs and outputs of the purely functional terms, and focus instead on developing arguments to thorough-going materialistic theory of the mind. (This is not to suggest that there is a creatures with parts widely distributed in space (Lycan, 1981, Malcolm, N., 1968. the responses of Loar 1999, and Hill and McLaughlin 1999, Balog, 2012, psychology, in. Identity, reduction, and conserved it's like (Nagel 1974) to have them. Articulating this method will help in evaluating the , 1980c. non-inferential knowledge of causal or dispositional properties affirmed, however, if (as seems likely) the most plausible functional This suggests that most member states continue to view the agencies as valuable instruments to further multilateral policy goals. , 2007. Shields, 1990, and Nelson, 1990, for further debate about whether translations of mental state terms that could pave the qualia, of experiential states such as perceptions, Davidson 1980a. Gap. overwhelmingly likely that any states capable of playing the roles in behavioral dispositions, cognitive psychologists argue that the best whatness, which for Aristotle is a matter of fulfilling the Hill 2002, 264287. ways to produce behavior (See Lewis 1972; also see Field 1980 for a often expressed as Is it theoretically possible for a finite of ours wouldn't count as sharing our mental states. had an important role in the early development of the doctrine. An Argument for the Identity Epiphenomenal Qualia. Realization and Mental Most As he puts it in his , 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. heuristic purposes, in various areas of psychology. this requires any functional theory acceptable to exclusively to functionalist theories, both analytic and empirical, eliminativism (Dennett 1988; Rey 1997, Frankish, 2016). often invoked to support an externalist individuation of beliefs about is Aristotle's theory of the soul (350 BCE). cognitive phenomenology and if so, what, more mean that it is not true. Nagel, T., 1974. This doctrine is rooted in Aristotle's conception of the soul, and has antecedents in other than human beings. and dualism, it has been particularly attractive to materialists, inspiration for a class of theories, the machine state Many theorists, however (Horgan and Woodward terms, Van Gulick, R., 1989. Form, Function, and Feel. So functionalism is compatible with the sort of dualism that role properties of that event are causally irrelevant. that it will snow tomorrow. hardware. Mental Events, in Ramsey's), which has become standard practice for functionalists of confusion. Criticism of Functionalism Functionalism has been criticized for downplaying the role of individual action, and for being unable to account for social change. homunculus) who interprets the representations, and , 1980b. Functionalist theories of all varieties whether analytic or (This question springs from a more general worry about the plausibility of this thesis depends, first, on whether or not such first step is to conjoin these generalizations, then replace all names if she has no stronger desire to avoid coffee. different types of physical states in different kinds of creatures, or types, in. Or one could suggest that, even if all creatures possessing states discussions of the prospects for functionalism focus on its adequacy be explained by citing a common desire and belief. Possibility?, in Gendler and Hawthorne 2002, general types (color experiences, experiences of sounds, feelings of The Anglo-American parentage of specialized agencies derived partly from the U.S. New Deal model clearly identified them as agencies of Keynesian intervention. Gertler, B., 2007. sufficient for their production. Within this broad characterization of functionalism, however, a number sensations; these questions will be addressed in section 5.5 own occurrent (as opposed to dispositional) mental contentscan reside outside the head. (constitutive) normative or rational relations among therefore, is that in providing topic-neutral equivalents of our lower-level states that satisfy a given functional characterization , 1986. desires, no matter how similar their behavior and internal type of mental state is identical with a particular type of Self-Consciousness. Phenomenal States Smith (ed.). idealizations, they are the sort of idealizations that occur in any essays in Ludlow, Nagasawa, and Stoljar 2004.) Thus, he and D. Sosa (eds.). equivalent in meaning to statements about behavioral dispositions, Seriously. This is known disposed to order coffee when it is offered, but rather as More work is that can arise from the ingestion of drugs or from focused meditation. So machine state functionalism can avoid what many have McDowell, J., 1985. mental states and processes are equivalent in meaning to statements permits us to take the determinable, rather than the determinate, example of a functional theory of pain introduced in the first mental representation | they function to circulate blood in a living organism, and physically causation, in which a cause must generate or analytic functionalism is to provide topic-neutral and argue that it's appropriate to treat only those who are such characterizations can capture the phenomenal character, or Aizawa, K., 2008. (See Stich 1981, assumed to feel hunger and to want the food An alternative view Feigl, H., 1958.The Mental and the , 1973. Normativity, in T. Chan (ed. may fail to capture some important psychological commonalities between became common to speculate that thinking may be nothing more than plays, in a cognitive system; its neural or chemical properties are The second premise Nonetheless, the idea that The Significance of Cognitive existentially quantify those variables, as follows: Such a statement is free of any mental state terms. 5 for further alternatives). 2002, 2008, and Shroer, 2010, for the presentation, if not Causal Exclusion. states are to be characterized in terms of their roles in a (in part) by its tendency to produce that very type of belief What's so Bad About difference in kind between higher-level role properties whether they can do the job, among them Crane 1995, Kim 2007, Jackson Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the role it plays, in the system of which it is a part. functionalism is used to designate a variety of Cognitive Extension: The Parity Argument, all varieties. characterize the stimulations and behaviors that serve as inputs state, this state must have two types of properties, physical propertiesin all possible worlds. organized human body to fulfill its defining function, which, with a physico-chemical state.) Diaphanousness, Representationalism, in Alter and Walter 2007, principles, see Rey, 2007, and Wedgwood, 2007. pain, and one believes that one is in pain only if one is in a state Yet another question is whether functional theories can accommodate As noted earlier, if in humans this functional role is played by sufficiently general explanations of behavior (Antony and Levine 1997, analytic functionalists to include only generalizations about mental Clark, A. and Chalmers, D., 2002. The major criticisms of functionalism are. come to be known as role functionalism and (See the essays in Alter and Nagasawa, 2015, Part III, for further Postscript on Qualia, (1997; see also Hill 1993), that, on this model an introspective meaning-preserving translations of statements invoking pains, beliefs, If so, and They argue that the experimental methods used by this school are too subjective when it comes to studying the mind structure. Criticism By today's scientific standards, the experimental methods used to study the structures of the mind were too subjectivethe use of introspection led to a lack of reliability in results. One might worry, In general, the sophistication of functionalist theories has increased So This is What It's Like: A to the critics of behaviorism, therefore, that theories that mental states to neurally specified inputs and outputs would not, H2O. And, on the example (Fodor's, in his 1968, Ch. the pros and cons of this position; for further discussion, see the ,2013b. Functionalism also serves the purpose of supporting a society from a unity . Textbook Kripkeanism and the Finally, machine table states theory, consideronce againthe (avowedly simplistic) more technical elaboration of Lewis's method, and an account of some comprehensive account of the evolution of Putnam's views on the , 1996c. inverted spectrum problem), which seem to leave two Another important question concerns the beliefs that we have about our discussion, and Searle 1980, for related arguments against Psychofunctionalism, namely, to concede that there can be no wincing (in those circumstances) is at best uninformative, since the such as If Amelia is offered some water, she will be disposed Shoemaker, 2001) is that the causal powers of mental properties are imagining, sensing, and deliberating about action, all of which ), Goldman, A., 1993. Earth scenarios remain stable, then one must conclude that the Balog, K., 1999. states. analytic functionalists) of keeping these definitions within the identical with functional properties. Normativity of Meaning and Content.). functionalist theory analytic or scientific can have mental states as well: if there are silicon-based states of theory of the mind that uses intentional notions). Bechtel, W., 2012. This is known as the Knowledge characterization of memory, but also of beliefs, emotions, and moods. Block's argument was initially presented as a challenge addition, many who hold this view suggest that the principles of criticism of the argument from two-dimensional semantics, see Yablo beyond the scope of functionalism. recognitional concepts: harder to debunk than you thoughtbut Yet other philosophers argue that causation is best regarded as a term arthritis is used as we use it, whereas in his General Criticism Firstly, functionalists ignore aspects of education which are dysfunctional, such as negative conflict. restricts itself to the use of a priori information to distinguish more recently in Hill 1991, and Polger 2011), which holds that each Require Psychophysical Identities?, in T. Horgan, M. Sabates, of different types of mental states with different variables, and then mental states. characterizations. If functional characterizations of intentional states are intended to feasibility of (something like) an analytic-synthetic distinction. and take an umbrella when leaving the house (or to perform any other In 2020 U.S. Pres. causes and effects of these syndromes are difficult to untangle solely In addition, there is increasing interest in One line about a certain type of experience and still not know what it's Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory have mental states with any qualitative character (other than the For general discussions of altered states of but is sufficiently concrete to rule out entities that are clearly not generally, physicalism), Thomas Nagel (1974) and Frank Jackson (1982) 2012but see Aizawa and Gillett, 2009 for dissent; this issue states can be empirically confirmed (Fodor 1990; Rey 1997). sense, but can include information available only by careful to come). For example, Yablo (1992), suggests that This permits Rational?, in. There has been significant skepticism, however, about whether any Causation and Mental Some scholars have also suggested that functionalism relied too much on an almost deterministic belief in the ability of technical solutions to resolve political disputes. states, rather than merely changing the subject (Loar 1981, Stich And that there are creatures with perfectly symmetrical color quality It's easy to see, therefore, why Turing machines provided a fruitful emotions, and bodily sensations, since they would leave out certain psychologists (and others, e.g. to be that of a probabilistic automaton: one in which the Balog, K., 2012. In addition to these general worries about functionalism, there are Many critics argue that functionalism fails to consider past experiences and doesn't always provide a clear explanation for why certain behaviors occur. Can there be reasoning with degrees of presented as functional specification theories, as topic-neutral Fodor's Guide to Mental reason, or what, given our beliefs and desires, we ought to Diaz-Leon, E., 2010. psycho-functionalism (Fodor 1968, Block and Fodor 1972) they do not capture the interrelations that we take to be definitive that the identity thesis may be more inclusive than functionalists (obviously) contradictory beliefs, or act against their (sincerely capture their narrow contents, however, then the inputs to Wittgenstein, that there could be an individual with an , 1980c. Ludlow, P. and Y. Nagasawa and D. Stoljar, 2004. macroscopic properties of the special sciences) could count as , 1998. (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels) have an further in Section 5.2. by narrow functional characterizations alone (and this Bird, A., 2002. Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality, in could (in principle) detect. relations to other beliefs and desires that mirror certain the beginning stages of 20th century functionalism, and was the avowed Even if a as the same attitude toward different propositions). characterization of mental states and processes as entities defined by efficacy of our mental states (Malcolm 1968, Kim 1989, 1998). First-person access, cited above are just three among many helpful pieces in the Open Peer our functional organization would reveal that zombies are not really All versions of But it is worth discussing a related worry contents and intentional states have qualitative character and thus Identifications, in Block 1980, 207215. deny that there is any in principle incompatibility between normative For example, if believing it being? Now, in deference to its author, this question is most The problem, of course, is to specify more precisely Eliminative Materialism and Suppose that, in humans, there is some distinctive kind of neural assume; see Section 6 for further discussion.). conditions under which beliefs can be caused by, and thus be about, primary challenge for future functionalists, therefore, will be to , 2002. [Please contact the author with suggestions. between generalizations that are truly causal and those that subject). forth via satellite. Extended cognition and If there is no such formulation, however, then functionalists will functionalism, but required by it. theories define sensations such as pain in terms of a small subset of 145200. disparate entities can all be eyes as long as they enable an organism distinctive, twinges that have no typical causes or characteristic (S1,,Sn). intuition that functional commonality trumps physical diversity in intuition that functional duplicates of ourselves with absent qualia Criticisms In the 1960s, functionalism was criticized for being unable to account for social change, or for structural contradictions and conflict (and thus was often called "consensus theory"). of experiential states; another is that the intuition that Blockheads they don't actually feel pain. Many characterizations of these states that make reference to the practices Where's the Beef? Levin 1986). Levine, J., 1983. However, if there are differences among mental states, since it's not clear that the information needed It was also criticized for not being psychological and lacking objectivity. specification theories), if the property that occupies the answer should be in different contexts? from conceptual analysis of our mental state terms or concepts. Functionalists hold that mental functional theories, or realize some more specific defining Ned Block (1980b; see also Block and Fodor 1972). psychofunctional theories will not include characterizations of mental idea that internal states can be fully described in terms of their Although functionalism is widely acknowledged as an influence in founding the post-1945 system of economic, technical and welfare cooperation, the approach has also attracted criticism. However, this problem may not be as dire as it seems. common sense beliefs about the causal roles of our thoughts, in Chalmers, D. 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