{"id":3707,"date":"2014-02-03T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/function_decomp\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:57:23","slug":"function_decomp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/function_decomp\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on functionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"functions_small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.urbanomic.com\/cyclon\/functions_small.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"355\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Function: Decomposition, Localization, Abstraction<\/b><br \/>\nSpeakers: Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani<br \/>\nAlthough principally associated with a thesis in the philosophy of mind, functionalism has wide-ranging ramifications. The concept of &#8220;functional role&#8221; or &#8220;functional organization&#8221; ties together a metaphysical problem about the basis of the distinction between matter and form, an epistemic problem about how to distinguish semantic content from physical information, and an engineering problem about the relation between structural and functional properties. This workshop will try to unravel the metaphysical, epistemic, and engineering aspects of functionalism by developing themes from the work of philosophers including William Bechtel, Robert Brandom, Wilfrid Sellars, and William Wimsatt.<br \/>\n<b>Date and Time<\/b>: March 25, 2014, 6:30pm<br \/>\n<b>Location<\/b>:<br \/>\nWollman Hall, The New School<br \/>\n66 West 12th Street<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10011<br \/>\nThis is a free event and open to the public.<br \/>\nSeating is limited: You can order tickets via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/function-decomposition-localization-abstraction-brassier-negarestani-tickets-8455062319?aff=efbevent\">Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Function: Decomposition, Localization, Abstraction Speakers: Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani Although principally associated with a thesis in the philosophy of mind, functionalism has wide-ranging ramifications. The concept of &#8220;functional role&#8221; or &#8220;functional organization&#8221; ties together a metaphysical problem about the basis of the distinction between matter and form, an epistemic problem about how to distinguish semantic&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/function_decomp\/\" title=\"Read Workshop on functionalism\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}