The Self‐Consciousness Argument: Functionalism and the Corruption of Content
The Waning of Materialism March 25, 2010 George Bealer
AbstractThis chapter targets functionalism as the most cogent form of contemporary materialism. In particular, it takes aim at ‘ontic’ or reductive functionalism: a theory that attempts to specify the essences of mental states, in a non-circular fashion, by means of physicalistic functional definitions (i.e., by means of the Ramsification of causal theories of the mind). The chapter points out...