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/fˈʌŋkʃənəlˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose
- a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment
How To Use functionalism In A Sentence
- Functionalism as a linguistic approach is different from generative and cognitive approaches in that it makes no claim as to the cognitive reality of the mechanisms it proposes - that matter is irrelevant to its usefulness.
- Wallace and Wolf trace the development of structural functionalism to Comte, Herbert Spencer, and Durkheim.
- There seem to be only two well-known theories from the history of the philosophy of mind that have not been attributed to him, namely behaviorism and functionalism.
- During the second unit of study you will be studying the three major viewpoints in psychology that emerged after the first psychology failed: functionalism, behaviorism, and gestaltism.
- Foster indicates how commitment to relative autonomy of the political, ideological and economic generates accounts which look very like traditional functionalism.
- To mask its original functionalism, the steel frame had been side-draped with cascades of pink net down to the carpeted metal floor. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
- In many ways, neo-functionalism is hard-wired into the EU, certainly among the Eurocrats in Brussels. The Volokh Conspiracy » The EU SPV
- Millianism and the intensional interpretation of Frege's view both entail this thesis (“functionalism”) about names. Names
- This will involve a brief discussion of the approach known in contemporary philosophy as functionalism.
- So, unlike the identity theory, functionalism ends up disallowing mind/body causation.
