There are many Swiss chalet and functionalist style houses in the residential area around the station.
It is a functionalist modernist room to go — a spot for talk and music.
In a similar way, the Turing-functionalist definition of thinking as the manipulation of symbols according to syntactic rules is deficient because it leaves out the symbols' semantic properties.
It is important to appreciate the many different ways in which a functionalist approach can be deployed, depending on the specific kind of functionalist account of the mind one thinks is constitutive of the meaning of mental terms.
Moscow, on the other hand, stood testament to a changing history and landscape where old cathedrals made way for neo-gothic and functionalist towers.
A good way to see why analytic functionalists insist that functional characterizations provide meaning analyses is to revisit a debate that occurred in the early days of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory, the thesis that each type of mental state can be identified with some type of brain state or neural activity.
According to the cultural functionalists, including the followers of Malinowski, the only way to explain facts was to define the function that they performed currently in a given culture.
Price the theoretician, Price the functionalist, was frightened of and avoided style, but his position changed as he grew older.
Arguments at this level are hard to come by, because positions are hard to motivate in ways that do not depend on prior conventionalist and functionalist sympathies.
One way to theoretically look at integrated care is from a structural functionalist view, seeing society (a local health economy in our case) as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability (i.e., by facilitating coordinated, join-up work of clinicians working in different settings and levels of care).
