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Functionalism, revisionism, and qualia

, 2016
From the editor's introduction: "Ron Chrisley and Aaron Sloman open Part I of this issue with their article “Functionalism, Revisionism, and Qualia.” Chrisley and Sloman discuss revisionism about qualia—the view that tries to navigate between naïve ...
Aaron Sloman (16061309), Ron Chrisley (4460344)   +1 more
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(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
wiley   +1 more source

Consciousness Defies Functionalism in Many Worlds [PDF]

This paper argues that functionalism, a dominant theory in philosophy of mind, fails to adequately explain the emergence of conscious experience within the Everettian (Many-Worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Gao, Shan
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Additive Functionals and Excessive Functions

The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1965
During the past five or six years there has been much work done on the problem of representing excessive functions as the potentials of additive functionals. This is a natural generalization to Markov processes of the classical theorem of Riesz dealing with the representation of non-negative superharmonic functions as the potentials of measures.
openaire   +3 more sources

WALTER GOLDSCHMIDT. Comparaive functionalism

Anales de Antropología, 2010
Claudio Esteva faregat
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Agnosticism about artificial consciousness

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

Functionalism in Sociology

, 1989
Ovaj članak je skraćena verzija prvog dijela rasprave u kojoj se raspravlja o funkcionalizmu u sociologiji. Termin funkcionalizam se shvaća kao više manje sistematičan okvir za sociološku analizu.
Kuvačić, Ivan, Ivan Kuvačić
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Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

Integration processes and the European Union: some theoretical implications

, 1997
This paper examines the extent to which a neo-functional or intergovernmental process may be at work in the evolving European Union (EU). Indeed, it investigates two models of governance that relate to these theories to allow an understanding of ...
Howell, K.E.
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Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
wiley   +1 more source