Worldview: Functionalism (FUNC)

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Extracted theses (commitments)

  • FUNC-1 (Philosophy of mind): Mental state terms need not be meaning-equivalent to physical descriptions; functionalists aim to preserve mental vocabulary without treating it as irreducibly non-physical. E-044
  • FUNC-2 (Method): Reduction strategies often trade off meaning preservation versus theoretical/ontological simplicity. E-045
  • FUNC-3 (Epistemology): Qualitative/phenomenal aspects pose special epistemological problems for functionalist reductions. E-046