Abstract

This article explores the possible links between the functionalist perspective and the new postcognitivist line of research in philosophy of mind. At first, we will summarize some approaches concerning the mind-body problem in order to focalize in the particularities of the functionalist proposal, that overcomes an approach to the issue in ontological terms. Then we will establish a link between the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences based on the situated cognition approach, establishing some conceptual clarifications about this field of research that is also known in specialized literature as 4E cognition approach or postcognitivism. Finally, we will analize some of the tensions taht arise between the adoption of some aspects of this approach and the functionalism.