A aparente contraintuitividade do funcionalismo abrangente: questões sobre a psicologia do senso comum e intuições sobre estados mentais

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51359/2357-9986.2022.256757

Palabras clave:

funcionalismo, agência de grupo, estados mentais, mentalidade coletiva, intuições

Resumen

O funcionalismo sobre a natureza de estados mentais postula que um estado ou propriedade mental é um estado ou propriedade funcional. Isto é, estados funcionais existem apenas a partir de uma rede causal na qual executam uma função, e de acordo com o funcionalismo esta rede é composta por entradas sensoriais, saídas comportamentais e outros estados mentais. A teoria funcionalista abrangente oferece uma compreensão mais inclusiva sobre os estados mentais de modo a atribuir mentalidade a casos como movimentos sociais ou grupos de pessoas, o que pode ser considerado contraintuitivo. Neste contexto, (1) apresentamos a tese funcionalista abrangente, (2) defendemos que a noção de intuição subjacente às principais críticas ao funcionalismo não é suficiente para acusar a teoria de ser contraintuitiva e, por fim, (3) sugerimos que nossa resistência em atribuir estados mentais a casos de agência de grupos se deve principalmente a características da psicologia do senso comum, segundo a qual atribuímos mentalidade mais facilmente a entidades que possuam ou (i) traços antropomórficos ou (ii) proximidade afetiva conosco.

Biografía del autor/a

João Felipe Santana Rasi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Graduando em filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

Paola Longo Mantovani, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Graduanda em filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas e em psicologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas.

Nara Miranda de Figueiredo, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)

Doutora em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), professora do Departamento de Filosofia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). Atua como pesquisadora colaboradora do Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência, da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (CLE-Unicamp). Trabalha com teorias contemporâneas da cognição e da linguagem.

Pedro Merlussi, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade de Durham e professor visitante do curso de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do ABC. Trabalha nas áreas de Metafísica, Filosofia da Ciência e Lógica Filosófica.

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Publicado

2022-12-12

Número

Sección

Dossiê “Fenomenologia, Ação, Cognição e Afetividade”