Posted by alexandra_k on February 7, 2005, at 15:56:29
In reply to ((alexandra k)), posted by zeugma on February 7, 2005, at 15:02:23
I love functionalism!
I used to say I was an instrumentalist (of the Dennetian variety) - but I took what I found plausible and ignored the rest. And peoples told me that what I had derived was functionalism! So there it is...
Peoples don't look at me so strangely now that I have stopped proclaiming I am an instrumentalist...
But I think functionalism is more popular in Australasia (courtesy of Frank Jackson) than in other parts of the world....?
Fodor, (for example) doesn't like it... He prefers his innate language of thought (mentalese) which doesn't allow for indeterminacy of intentional state. :-(
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