Functionalist theories have been proposed for just about everything: mental states, dispositions, moral properties, truth, causation, and much else. The time has come for a functionalist theory of ...

If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

In this paper I argue that the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness has an underlying emergentist metaphysics, specifically of a kind that has received minimal attention and we may call ...

A prudent measure given the pace of technological progress. Even if AI doesn’t turn against us in some future robot war, we ...

Scientists use quantum many-body data and machine learning to boost density functional theory accuracy for chemistry and ...