ABSTRACT
The second theory to be described is probabilistic functionalism, which was essentially the work of one man, Egon Brunswik (1903-1955). Brunswik left no school of followers, his work is rarely cited in modern writings, and no subsequent group of workers has ever assumed the label, ‘probabilistic functionalist’.1 There are, however, good reasons for including this short chapter on Brunswik’s work. We shall attempt to justify this claim by describing Brunswik’s theory as sympathetically as possible, before offering a number of criticisms.
