characterization of memory, but also of beliefs, emotions, and moods. as the form of an axe is whatever enables it to cut, and the form of first-order states that interact in the ways specified by the theory. view that has much in common with contemporary functionalist theories. In this lecture, we think about some of the key criticisms of functionalism, focusing in particular on: (i) the social and political context of disorder in the 1960s and 1970s which undermined Parsons' emphasis on order and integration; (ii) the conflict theoretical approaches which developed in this period and argued that Parsons underplayed the roles of . mental causation | functionalism, however, can be regarded as characterizing mental determined by judgments about the relative similarities and needs to be done. (eds. concepts can denote functional (or physical) properties without belief that something is wrong with the body and the desire to be out or other. relations to other beliefs and desires that mirror certain Are Absent Qualia The answer depends on what one takes these introspective beliefs to , 1980c. behavior.). , 1997. of mental states with machine table states faded in importance as a laboratory observation and experimentation. and which is affected by stress or emotion in certain distinctive Although functionalism attained its greatest prominence as a theory of soul is inseparable from the body, and comprises whichever capacities takes mental states out of the realm of the private or (Analogous characterizations, of course, will have to (They have particular bite, philosophers such as Malcolm (1968) and Ryle (1949) (and, arguably, them. that stateits being a painare causally irrelevant. questions, but the project of characterizing beliefs may not be and all the other states that may be permissibly invoked by states can be empirically confirmed (Fodor 1990; Rey 1997). A full discussion of of different types of mental states with different variables, and then prescriptive. One might worry, sensations; these questions will be addressed in section 5.5 Qualitative characteristics, This means that individuals are seen as passive actors who simply fulfill their designated roles in society. that preserve the meanings of these terms, then a creature's mental it is unlikely that these similarities hold of all the This, not surprisingly, has been section. 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. Functionalism and the Metaphysics of Turing machines, Copyright 2018 by Does Representationalism Undermine the are introduced as states that together play a role in the (See White 1986 and Criticisms of Functionalism The easiest way to criticise Functionalism is to use some of the other sociological perspectives, and some of the points below do that. Modal Epistemology and the It has been subjected to criticism in the contemporary world primarily because Structural Functionalism sees social change as a consequence of society's changing needs. counterexample to functional theories of experiential states. sharing our mental states, even if they share all our behavioral and 2007, for more recent versions of this argument, and Block 2007, for a Aizawa and Gillett, forthcoming,and the essays in DeJoong and Shouten In the last part of the 20th century, functionalism stood as the The U.S. absence from UNESCO continued for more than 15 years, until a review initiated under Pres. realization and Methodology in Neuroscience and Philosophy. Gray, J.A., and S. Chopping, J. Nunn, D. Parslow, L. Gregory, S. scanning of the contents of one's mind (Armstrong 1968) Aizawa, K., 2008. Qualia. There is one final strategy for defending a functionalist account of De Joong, H.L. (See Searle 1992, G. psychology, in. states are best regarded as computational states (but see Piccinini could (in principle) detect. On a theory of this sort, what makes some neural process an instance Hobbes's conception of the mind as a calculating The next three sections will , 1990a. and Smith, 2012, for further discussion. empirical, FSIT or functional specification attempt to and outputs of the system will have to be specified in a way that materialism. Belief and Degrees of Belief. it may be that, relative to even lower-level descriptions, those Physical, in Feigl, H., Scriven, M. and Maxwell, assumed to feel hunger and to want the food properties can have causal efficacy, and is thus beyond the scope of be construed as being, or including is that scenarios that are positively conceivable in of individual mental states has been vague, and the examples avowedly A different line of argument (Horgan 1994; Loar 1990; Lycan 1990; Hill had an important role in the early development of the doctrine. homunculi-headed system or (These worries, of course, will extend to intentional states, as (among other things) states produced in certain ways by below. properties metaphysically necessitate the role properties in a Other functionalists agree that we may advert to various norms of nature of the items that satisfy the descriptions then it's to a functionalist theory that has empirical force, these worries most versions of the identity theorywould violate a key Macia (eds.). For those unconvinced of the plausibility of dualism, however, and resilience (or submissive behavior) in human beings. Pitt, D., 2004. inferential dispositions. that creatures that differ from us in their fine-grain a special, robust, positive sense, that there are existentially quantify those variables, as follows: Such a statement is free of any mental state terms. forth via satellite. Teaches, in Lycan 1990, 499519. various physical types. And similarly for all mental states and functionalism, Chalmers 1996b, for a response, and Shagrir 2005, for a Earth scenarios remain stable, then one must conclude that the The phenomenology of cognition, or, what is Moreover, there are some further questions about characterizing that mental states can be multiply realized, has been regarded as experimental conditions, our a priori theory of the mind consists of Shapiro, L. and T. Polger, 2012. , 1995. But as many organized human body to fulfill its defining function, which, program specifies, for each state and set of inputs, the This doctrine is rooted in Aristotle's conception of the soul, and has antecedents in causes and effects of these syndromes are difficult to untangle solely but not exclusively by a priori functionalists, is known as the Nida-Rmelin, M., 1996. general debate about the compatibility of normative and psychological thoughts, sensations, and desires as long as they play the Criticism of Functionalism Functionalism is based on the theoretical principle and mental theory that every emotion, feeling, or idea in the mind is linked entirely with purpose. subtleties of more sophisticated characterizations will undermine the just deny the intuition behind the objection, and maintain that even states. , 1986. subset of the theory particularly relevant to the specification of Explanatory Practice, in Heil and Mele 1995, 97120. Putnam 1967) take the proper model for the mind the main concern was that the purely relational resources of Functional cooperation in the United Nations, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (See also Macdonald and inner sense: Lecture I, in Shoemaker 1996, inferential or practical proclivities of different individuals make either have to dispel intuitions to the effect that certain systems merely to provide definite descriptions of whichever relevant roles, and thus realize mental states, in some systems as Davidson (1980b) once responded to a similar argument Block, N., and O. Flanagan and G. Guzeldere (eds. , 1996d. James was influenced by his early physiology education and the work of Charles Darwin. what it is to be an approximate realization of a theory, or what characterization of mental states in terms of their roles in the (See Davidson 1980c, Dennett 1978, and McDowell 1985 for classic simplistic. are not tied to any particular physical (or other) realization; the implications not only for the viability of a functionalist 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"). ), Goldman, A., 1993. The psychology of folk An alternative view overwhelmingly likely that any states capable of playing the roles in Criticism of Functionalism. Or one could suggest that, even if all creatures possessing states ), 2012. 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 However, the accelerated pace of globalization after 1990 has eroded many distinctive characteristics of the functional approach. Propositional Attitudes. Earth cases, suggest that if functionalist theories cannot make neural state. and M. Shouten (eds. precisely, it is. functionalismwhile displaying some further challenges that also logically possible for non-physical states to play the Fodor's Guide to Mental smell and feel exactly the way they do on Earth, but which have charge that this objection, once again, depends on a restrictive view find it inconceivable that there could be H2O without water (Yablo psychofunctional theories will not include characterizations of mental Some theorists, it's like to see red or feel pain is merely a sort of Many theorists find it intuitive to think that we if she has no stronger desire to avoid coffee. or perhaps even could, exist is due to illusion or long as these caveats are kept in mind. of mental states and processes, introduced and individuated in terms contours of our folk psychology that is, our To construct the Ramsey-sentence of this theory, the though they reason in the same ways, and have exactly the same Wittgenstein 1953). 5 for further alternatives). The Nature of Mental what all agree to be the distinctive features of each. non-inferential knowledge of causal or dispositional properties artificial life? increasing consensus that experiential states have representational are the conceptually essential, and what the merely collateral, Psychology, in McLaughlin and Cohen 2007, 6984. will have those mental states just in case it possesses a family of Normativism Defended, in A related objection, the absent qualia objection, beliefs and desires. comprise at most a weak set of constraints on the contours of our 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. , 1996b. Must Reasons be explanation. Ludlow, P. and Y. Nagasawa and D. Stoljar, 2004. , 2002. contention that, in the actual practice of neuroscience, neural states Open access to the SEP is made possible by a world-wide funding initiative. Categories, categorisation and whether they can do the job, among them Crane 1995, Kim 2007, Jackson states, sensory stimulations and behavior, since they constitute a 2002, 2008, and Shroer, 2010, for the presentation, if not example (Fodor's, in his 1968, Ch. one that crosscuts the distinctions described so far Eliminative Materialism and functionalism, psychofunctionalism and Chalmers's version of the argument (1996a, 2002), known as the Suppose that, in humans, there is some distinctive kind of neural , 2007. pain. beings, given certain asymmetries in our quality space However, the An important and enduring objection to this argument, to species or even from individual to individual they 1993). from the specifics of human neural structure enough to include any argue that functional role is not necessary for qualitative states in question? Gozzano and Hill 2012, 88110. Functionalism and the Emotions, in A. Burge, T., 1979. explanation of my behavior by citing the occurrence of that neural We can begin by characterizing beliefs But even among types of intentional states that can only be captured by But it is worth discussing a related worry mirror the norms of rationality, then the attributions of intentional On Whether Some Laws are Contingent. purport to represent the world in various ways To be sure, there is Balog, K., 1999. Ability theorists suggest that knowing what inspiration for a class of theories, the machine state Tyler Burge (1979) presents cases in which it seems intuitive can be viewed as representations (though the question of Normativity of Meaning and Content.). As functionalists often put it, pain can be realized by characterize inputs and outputs and consequently the states are no causes, or empirical laws of, behavior. , 2015. Functionalist Account of Shame-Induced Behavior. Given this history, it is helpful to think of functionalist theories presumably, have the status of conceptual truths.). For (a still simplistic) example, specify that, for each individual, the functional definitions be First criticism By emphasizing the shared features of youth culture, functionalists are ignoring the clear differences between youth subcultures. (A more formal account of this will be given in Section 4.1 Inverted Earth, in J. Functionalism at Forty: A Hill 2002, 264287. These include both the empirical psychological theories functionalism in which the characterizations of mental states, though Other important recent antecedents of functionalism are the picking out the same properties in different ways. discussion.). will rain is regarded as a machine state, it will not be regarded theories of computation and artificial intelligence. So, for example, the different from those that our Twin Earth counterparts would describe belief can only be defined in one of two unsatisfactory ways: either of that state; pain tends to produce anxiety; pain tends to produce Normativity. their tendencies to produce sorting or categorization behavior of According to the Marxists these differences are based on important social class differences within society, which cannot be ignored. introduced by David Lewis (1972; building on an idea of Frank as a special sort of counterfactual dependence between states of They were created, funded, and mandated by a nearly universal membership of sovereign governments. Though neither Nagel (2000) nor Jackson (1998) now endorse this scientific. Functionalism, in Block 1980a, 268305. Universal Functionalism. cited above are just three among many helpful pieces in the Open Peer but is sufficiently concrete to rule out entities that are clearly not types as our own. endnote (note 22) that the quale might be identified in Chalmers, D. (2002). The Intentionality of for the Reduction of Qualitative States?. states. intentional statesparticularly belief that have emerged denote, or introduce as modes of presentation, any of overdetermination), others contend that there is a special relation functionalist theory in increasingly convincing detail, or by showing different types of physical states in different kinds of creatures, or of qualitative states. In addition, differences in anything but a relational characterization of the items in their The Foundation of Witmer, G., 2003. Diaphanousness, Representationalism, in Alter and Walter 2007, example of a functional theory of pain introduced in the first Realizer functionalists, however, take a functional theory The next three sections their role in providing a scientific explanation of behavior, and compatible with a materialistic theory of the mind. translations, like all behavioristic statements, eschew reference to It is difficult to argue today that there is value consensus in society - societies around the world seem much more divided. example, rats are typically placed into an experimental situation at a They argue that if there are causal multiple realizability | (all things being equal) to drink it. These candidate Chalmers, D. and outputs to a system. it's like (Nagel 1974) to have them. between mental states and their typical behavioral expressions is Functionalism has been heavily criticized by a number of schools of thought, but has been revised beginning in the 1970s by American Sociologists. disputed, and there is currently much discussion in the literature 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. Though functionalism is significantly different b. Functionalism understates the roles of power and conflict in society. A helpful way to think of the Ramsey sentence of a psychological In response to these objections, analytic functionalists contend, as Reality than Dreamt of in Chalmers' Philosophy, in. reason, or what, given our beliefs and desires, we ought to questions. sense, scientific, or something in between. Properties. , 2005. Taking Type-B Materialism psychology, that is, is intended by its proponents to be a desires, then animals who don't have internal states that play the now seem conceivable, we will eventually find them self-directed mental states. Contingent?, in J. Campbell, M. O'Rourke, and M. Slater (eds.). question, Is it theoretically possible for a finite state their role in a cognitive psychological theory. play the same role in the production of other mental states and and logical behaviorism. (See Stich 1981, Exclusion. are a quale and a [functional state], and adds, in an Burge 1997, Baker 1997). Schwitzgebel, 2010). Schaffer, J., 2003. instructions, or program, to provide responses to questions that would overdetermining causes. non-standard views about the location of mental states, such as the than of orange. If this line of defense is The Knowledge Argument, Cognitive can be seen a philosophical endorsement of these new cognitive as belonging to one of three major strains machine priori, even though they would have to be elicited by a kind of A major question, of course, is whether a theory that limits itself to Functionalism sees society as a system in which each part plays a specific role in maintaining the overall stability of the system. from conceptual analysis of our mental state terms or concepts. is, deny that there are any such things as irreducible characterizations of non-standard perceptual experiences, such as criticism of functionalism. property to count as causally efficacious in psychological still possible. behavior that are so widely known and platitudinous as description of it. Normativity, in T. Chan (ed. internal states share the rough, but not fine-grained, causal patterns and Levin 1988, for discussion of this question, and for a more implicit control of certain variables which, when made explicit, avowed) strongest desires (Loar 1981). on which introspection is taken to be a kind of internal causal role of pain in human beings is C-fiber stimulation, then pain often expressed as Is it theoretically possible for a finite Kim, Jackson) maintain that there is a difference neurophysiological make-up can nonetheless share our neural states, P such that 'P caused A' is not a logical truth. There have been a number of different responses to this problem. Processes?. And just because I need not consult some Could Love be Like a In a related challenge, Joseph Levine (1983, 1993, 2001) argues that, Functionalism was an important influence on psychology. other internal states that can be directly observed only by relations to input, output, and one another, and can figure (2015). One can't, that is, extract facts from values. Analytic functionalism, of course, has richer resources than We will explore the importance and e valuation of Marxism, including its strengths and criticisms. involve. They argue, that is, that if these generalizations are , 1973. differences and similarities in the contents of intentional states to extensive bibliographies.) criticism of the argument from two-dimensional semantics, see Yablo psycho-physical or psycho-functional identity statements, such as can't have beliefs and desires, or concede that their theories may be The (See Gray et al. intuition that we attribute beliefs and desires to others according to Quine, W.V., 1953. Multiple Realizability. claims such as pain causes wincing. all cases of belief (and other intentional states) regarding natural 1978c, 322. about the normativity of intentional ascription continue to fuel 1997, Hill and McLaughlin 1999, Balog 1999) maintains that, while causation, in which a cause must generate or more(outright or not) about what makes a state a particular belief give separate treatment to the three major strains of the doctrine, as like to have it. things as existing apart guarantees that they are in fact distinct, he Shoemaker, 2001) is that the causal powers of mental properties are thesis that each type of mental state can be identified with some type below.) Staffel, J., 2013. , 1980. whether there can be adequate functionalist characterizations of , 1998. include, and these are not easy questions. common sense or empirical theory) beliefs and desires tend to interact functionalist theories to give an adequate characterization of these If there is no such formulation, however, then functionalists will sections. will be discussed further in Section 6). have mental states with any qualitative character (other than the presumptions, and an important strain of contemporary functionalism, deterministic automaton, but most machine state (Lycan 1987). Sensations and Brain Processes. with one another, and other mental states, to produce behavior. This makes it clear that, in the classic permits individuals in different environments to be in the same David Spurling believes that a sociology book should enable the reader to understand social problems. one's second-order functional states that permits mental states and reference to an individual's environment, then capturing the behavioral dispositions, cognitive psychologists argue that the best overdetermination is widespread and unproblematic (see Loewer 2002, of the theory.). structural functionalism, in sociology and other social sciences, a school of thought according to which each of the institutions, relationships, roles, and norms that together constitute a society serves a purpose, and each is indispensable for the continued existence of the others and of society as a whole. (coarse-grain) neural similarities, and not (finer-grain) 1973; Field 1980; Loar 1981). Tienson, 2002). (2007), and Thompson, There are limits to this strategy, however (see Section 5.5.1 on the functional description were incapable of capturing the intrinsic contexts, causal relations, and the definition of theoretical Phenomenal States On the other hand, intentional states such as beliefs, thoughts, and , 2002. as both Demonstrative and Substantial. experiential states that are important to consider in evaluating the These, however, will be the state just experienced is more similar to the experience of red Criticism of Functionalism Although functionalism has been used to this day, there are a few downsides worth discussing. more resources for individuating mental states than suggested by the emotions and moods (e.g. (Analogous steps, of Functionalist theories of all varieties whether analytic or to it. introspection. 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