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Functionalism

  • Aristotle
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    Aristotle

  • Thomas Hobbes

  • 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.

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