O critério de desempenho: do behaviorismo ao funcionalismo

Max Rogério Vicentini

doi:10.4025/actascihumansoc.v23i0.2790

Performance criterion: from behaviorism to functionalism

Max Rogério Vicentini UEM

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v23i0.2790

Abstract

The aim of this article is to investigate the origins, range and limitations of functionalism. At first the historical roots of mind philosophy with special regard to relevant aspects of Descartes’ writing will be studied. Based on the subjectivist concept of mind as advocated by Descartes the structure of the theories dealing scientifically with the mind will be analyzed giving special emphasis to the behaviorist ideas and to their influence on the delimitations of the field of mental studies, including the causes of their failure. And as a consequence it will be verified how functionalism, which intends to be an alternative answer to the question of the mind’s nature, overcomes or relapses into the same problems that invalidated behaviorism. This criticism of functionalism is based on qualia notion that constitutes an impediment to the reductionist claims of current mind theories.

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Author Biography

Max Rogério Vicentini, UEM

Possui graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1994) e mestrado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1998). É professor assistente da Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Tem experiência na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Ciência Cognitiva, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: filosofia, ciência cognitiva, semiótica, peirce e evolução. Atualmente é aluno do Programa de Pós-graduação da USP e desenvolve uma tese sobre a cosmologia de Charles Sanders Peirce Currículo Lattes

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Published

2008-05-06

How to Cite

Vicentini, M. R. (2008). Performance criterion: from behaviorism to functionalism. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 23, 223-230. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v23i0.2790

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Vol 23 (2001)

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Social Sciences

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