July 074

Functionalism

By alisoniredale
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    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    conception of the soul
    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/

  • Thomas Hobbes

    Moral philosophy

  • David Lewis

    David Lewis
    Folk Psychology as a Theory modal causality
    theory-theory
    Lewis is therefore interpreting folk psychology as a functionalist theory; that is, as a theory which identifies mental states in terms of their causal-functional relations. Indeed, some authors use the terms "theory theory" and "functionalism" interchangeably.