¿Qué es el funcionalismo?

David Villena Saldaña

doi:10.30920/letras.88.127.6

What is functionalism?

Authors

David Villena Saldaña Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú; Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Perú https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4728-1642

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30920/letras.88.127.6

Keywords:

Functionalism, Mental states, Mind-body problem, Philosophy of mind

Abstract

This paper explains the main theses of functionalism about mental states. This view is taken as a response addressed to the metaphysical aspect of the mind-body problem. Thus it is said what distinguishes functional properties as second-order properties, and how to understand supervenience and multiple realizability. The paper applies these ideas to machine functionalism and analytic functionalism, the two main versions of functionalism.