Functionalism

Selected reading: Named section and worked examples.

How to study this source

• Must thought represent the world?

  extensionNamed section and worked examples

  Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• Surfing Uncertainty

  Andy Clark. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Mind in Life

  Evan Thompson. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Being There

  Andy Clark. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Rediscovery of the Mind

  John Searle. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Representation Reconsidered

  William Ramsey. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.