Computation and Functionalism: Can Psychology Be Done “Syntactically”?

Design Spaces, Niche Spaces and the \hard" Problem

This is an attempt to characterise a new unifying generalisation of the practice of software engineers, AI designers, developers of evolutionary forms of computation, etc. This topic overlaps with theoretical biology, developmental psychology and perhaps some aspects of social theory (yet to be developed!). Much of theoretical computer science follows the lead of engineering intuitions and trie...

Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

Classical AI-functionalism is the claim that there is some program such that anything that runs that program can pass the Turing test, that is, can deploy a vocabulary in the same sense in which any other language-users do. And that is to say that a computer language, in which any such algorithm can be expressed, is in principle VP-sufficient to specify abilities that are PV-sufficient to deplo...

Functionalism, computationalism, and mental states

Some philosophers have conflated functionalism and computationalism. I reconstruct how this came about and uncover two assumptions that made the conflation possible. They are the assumptions that (i) psychological functional analyses are computational descriptions and (ii) everything may be described as performing computations. I argue that, if we want to improve our understanding of both the m...

Computation and Functionalism: Syntactic Theory of Mind Revisited

Presentation of Economic Regeneration Model in Historic Fabric Based on Order in Structural Functionalism Theory

Historic fabric can perform an important role in the development of cities. Urban sustainable regeneration is one of the recent approaches in historic fabric. In this approach, all indicator of sustainable development including economic, social, cultural, management and environmental dimensions have been used in conservation of the historic fabric. All the principles of sustainable development ...