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4 Troubles with Functionalism - nyu.edu
4 Troubles with Functionalism , Behaviorism, and PhysicalismThe functionalist view of the nature of the mind is now widely behav-iorism and physicalism, Functionalism seeks to answer the question What are mentalstates? I shall be concerned with identity thesis formulations of Functionalism . Theysay, for example, that pain is a functional state, just as identity thesis formulations ofphysicalism say that pain is a physical shall begin by describing Functionalism , and sketching the functionalist critique ofbehaviorism and physicalism.
fails to avoid the sort of problem for which it rightly condemns behaviorism. Function-alism, too, is guilty of liberalism, for much the same reasons as behaviorism.
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