Some varieties of functionalism

Philosophical Topics 12 (1):93-119 (1981)
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Fleshing out Ramsey-sentence functionalism; against Lewis's "mad pain" mixed theory; relating functionalism to the causal theory of properties. Empirical functionalism is chauvinistic so probably false. A terrific, in-depth paper

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