Functionalism in Philosophy of the Mind

Yesterday I discussed John Searle's Chinese Room argument, which denies that computers are capable of thought, and that computer functionalism is a valid description of the mind ("Is Your Brain a Computer?"). Readers may be interested to read a little more about the idea of functionalism.

With the eclipse of behaviorism and identity theory in philosophy of the mind, functionalism has become perhaps the dominant perspective in philosophy of the mind for philosophers and neuroscientists with a...