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Multidisciplinary Studies
Antecedents of functionalism
Early antecedents
Thinking machines and the “Turing test”
Behaviorism
Varieties of functionalism
Machine state functionalism
Psycho-functionalism
Analytic functionalism
Role-functionalism and realizer-functionalism
Constructing plausible functional theories
Functional definitions and Ramsey-sentences
Characterizing experiential states
Characterizing intentional states
Characterizing the inputs and outputs of a system