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Functionalism is the doctrine that what makes something a thought, desire, pain (or any other type of mental state) depends not on its internal constitution, but solely on its function, or the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which...
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/
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Functionalism has three distinct sources. First, Putnam and Fodor saw mental states in terms of an empirical computational theory of the mind. Second, Smart’s "topic neutral" analyses led Armstrong and Lewis to a functionalist analysis of mental concepts.
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Functionalism; What is Functionalism? 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?
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Functionalism, as a school of thought in anthropology, emerged early in the twentieth century. Bronislaw Malinowski and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, two prominent anthropologists in Great Britain at the time, had the greatest influence in this development.
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www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/function.htm
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Functionalism is the oldest, and still the dominant, theoretical perspective in sociology and many other social sciences. This perspective is built upon twin emphases: application of the scientific method to the objective social world and use of an analogy between the individual organism and society.
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Structural functionalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Structural functionalism is a sociological paradigm which addresses what social functions various elements of the social system perform in regard to the entire system. Social structures are stressed ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism
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Like most views about the mind, functionalism is motivated in part by an analogy with a certain sort of machine--in this case, the modern digital computer. But it is useful to approach the view by discussing, not IBM mainframes or Apple Macs, but Turing Machines.
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www.trinity.edu/cbrown/mind/functionalism.html
www.trinity.edu/cbrown/mind/functionalism.html
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Functionalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Functionalism may refer to: • Functionalism (architecture) • Functionalism (philosophy of mind) • Functionalism versus intentionalism (Holocaust history) • Functionalism (sociology) or structural fun...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism
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