IDENTIFYING SYSTEM FUNCTIONS

This article provides certain fairly rigorous, although still heuristic, methods for identifying the functional components of systems in such a way as to facilitate making relationships between the components and the overall system. Based on the definitions of function commonly used, making such a relationship is not always as easy as it could be made. Specific matters discussed herein include the following: functions and objectives-oriented thinking; logical versus physical thinking; functional outputs versus functional objectives; functional objectives versus system mission; directness of relationship to an objective; relationships between multiple functional objectives; distinguishing specific objectives within more general ones; the need to develop a consistent set of terms; etc.     

德国建筑师Oswald Mathias Ungers思想历程浅析

从批判功能主义入手，介绍了德国建筑师Oswald Mathias Ungers建筑生涯的三个阶段，捂出Ungers对城市设计的立场，即要在充分保持城市多样性、地域性和历史延续性的基础上引入理性的秩序，这样以网格为主导的秩序才能回到城市，成为环境的一部分。     

Darwinian theory, functionalism, and the first American psychological revolution.

American functionalist psychology constituted an effort to model scientific psychology on the successes of English evolutionary theory. In part it was a response to the stagnation of Wundt's psychological research program, which had been grounded in German experimental physiology. In part it was an attempt to make psychology more appealing within the highly pragmatic American context and to facilitate the application of psychology to domains outside of the scientific laboratory. Applications of psychology that emerged from the functionalist ethos included child and developmental psychology, clinical psychology, psychological testing, and industrial/vocational psychology. Functionalism was also the ground within which behaviorism rooted and grew into the dominant form of psychology through the middle of the 20th century. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Urban design paradigm shifts: the case of Barañain

Two urban discourses occurred before and after 1970 with their differences and similarities: the first indebted to the functionalism of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and critical of tradition, and the second resulting from 1970s historicist reaction which, critical of the CIAM, focussed on the revival of traditional forms. Here, we analyse two urban approaches in a single geographical location: Barañain, located in the region of Pamplona (Navarra, Spain). The two plans (1967 and 1984) correspond to these urban discourses. Yet, on analysing them, we can see that the original discourses contain a hint of discipline-related mismatch, since – in both cases – places the criticism of previous designs before the social or geographical conditions.     

广州航空邮件处理中心设计心得

本文在因循节能、环保同时，实用，传达企业文化和层次定位非功能因素。     

对城市旧区改造的思考

对理性思维指导下进行的城市旧区改造反映的历史文化传统的失落和功能主义倾向等问题的思考．     

“形式主义”+“功能主义”:语言学“统一”理论初探

“形式主义”和“功能主义”是影响现代语言学理论的两大流派,在对语言认识和研究方法上形成对立;而本文尝试为两者建立一个“统一”体系,使其不在成为两个对立的理论,而是一个理论的两个方面。     

从德国功能翻译理论看时政新词英译

本文以翻译理论与实务为基础,从德国功能翻译理论的角度,用丰富的实例讨论分析了时政新词的文本类型、翻译原则及策略。本文认为时政新词属于＂表达型＂功能文本,以反映国家政策和领导人思想为主要目的,翻译时以服务于原文政治立场和目的为原则,应在充分理解原文政治内涵和外延的基础上,慎重选词,再现原文语义。     

Physicalism,functionalism and conscious thought

In this paper, I provide further elaboration of my theory of conscious experience, in response to the criticisms made by David Cole, and I directly address a number of the issues he raises. In particular, I examine Cole's claim that functionalism rather than neurophysiology is the theoretical key to consciousness. I argue that weak type-physicalism provides an analysis which is more fine grained, makes weaker assumptions, and allows more scope for empirical methods.     

Let's Dance! The Equivocation in Chalmers' Dancing Qualia Argument

David Chalmers' dancing qualia argument is intended to show that phenomenal experiences, or qualia, are organizational invariants. The dancing qualia argument is a reductio ad absurdum, attempting to demonstrate that holding an alternative position, such as the famous inverted spectrum argument, leads one to an implausible position about the relation between consciousness and cognition. In this paper, we argue that Chalmers' dancing qualia argument fails to establish the plausibility of qualia being organizational invariants. Even stronger, we will argue that the gap in the argument cannot be closed.