Sentence examples for functionalist treatment from inspiring English sources

This approach to intentionality mobilizes Sellars's functionalist treatment of meaning.

Sellars can claim the first explicit formulation of a functionalist treatment of intentional states, an early recognition of the "hard problem" of sensory consciousness, and a thoroughgoing nominalism, as well as rich interpretations of historical figures in philosophy.

Although a functionalist treatment of affective qualia seems problematic for pure strong representationalists, it may be welcomed by perceptual theorists in general who are seeking to give a naturalistic account of pain as a perception.

Unfortunately, many philosophers still mistakenly assume that computationalism entails a functionalist approach to propositional attitudes (see Piccinini 2004 for discussion).

Critical approaches directly challenge functionalist approaches.

Many objects had been liberated from functionalist obsessions.

He called himself a "functionalist tempered by frivolity".

Functionalist simplicity was combined with sculpturally expressive form.

Politics is its own functionalist faith, a powerfully coercive one.

Theoretically, the dichotomy was resolved by Modernism's functionalist aesthetic.

Functionalist perspectives differentiate legitimate, formal authority from illegitimate, informal power.