What is functionalism? Critically assess its main advantages and disadvantages.

Title: What is functionalism? Critically assess its main advantages and disadvantages.
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What is functionalism? Critically assess its main advantages and disadvantages.

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 …showed first 75 words of 4076 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 4076 total…beralism. Bibliography N. Block, "Troubles with functionalism", Rosenthal Heil, The Philosophy of Mind, 1998, Routledge S. Shoemaker, Identity, cause and mind, 1984, Cambridge University Press E. Lowe, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, 2000, Cambridge Uni. Press Braddon-Mitchel and Jackson, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, 1996, Blackwells www.trinity.edu/cbrown/mind/functionalism.html www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/functionalism.html www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/functionalism.html www.edu/gsas/dept/philo.faculty/block/papers/

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