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Functionalism

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• Thesis Text:
  1. Functionalism is a thesis in the philosophy of mind – originally in contrast to the then alternatives of behaviorism and the identity theory – to the effect that “mental states are identified by what they do rather than by what they are made of” (see "Polger (Thomas) - Functionalism").
  2. However, it has been co-opted by Sydney Shoemaker to support the cause of the Psychological View² of PID, disputed by Eric Olson. See:-
     → "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Personal Identity: a Materialist Account"
     → "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self and Substance"
     → "Olson (Eric) - What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity"
     → "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Functionalism and Personal Identity - a Reply"
  3. Shoemaker is a materialist³ as far as the mind-body problem is concerned (at least in contrast with Swinburne’s soul view). But, this does not carry over into PID, either as the physical⁴ view or animalism⁵.
  4. I am highly suspicious of Functionalism as it applies to consciousness⁶, though it is a difficult question. If consciousness should turn out to be a quantum phenomenon based in the brain, then Functionalism would be proved false empirically. People have always been suspicious of a network of baked-bean tins wired up isomorphically to neurons being conscious (but then this would be too simplistic a model).
  5. I think that according phenomenal consciousness to other mammals is best motivated by their similar neural structures, even though the fact that they look and behave as though they are conscious would be sufficient for a prudential attribution. This is because we could (as a thought experiment⁷, at least) build robots that behaved like conscious beings yet we knew (from their architecture) that they weren’t.
  6. This case is put under pressure by very complex computers or by aliens who might have very different physiology.
  7. Any possibility of ‘uploading⁸’ a person to a computer depends on Functionalism for any plausibility whatever.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. While I am “against” functionalism in the philosophy of mind, and “against” the psychological view⁹ of PID, I need to engage with Shoemaker to explain why in more detail.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Polger (Thomas) - Functionalism", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
• For a Page of Links¹⁰ to this Note, Click here. Too many to follow up at the moment.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹¹, some of which cover Functionalism only tangentially, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Functionalism", 1995, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Dennett (Daniel) - Where Am I?", 1997, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Lavelle (Suilin) - Minds, Brains and Computers", 2013, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Papineau (David) - Introducing Consciousness", 2000, Book
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Agar (Nicholas) - Functionalism and Personal Identity", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    2. "Alston (William) - Functionalism and Theological Language", 1985, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - A Farewell to Functionalism", 1985, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    4. "Bealer (George) - Fregean Equivocation and Ramsification on Sparse Theories: Response to McCullagh", 2000
    5. "Boorse (Christopher) - Wright on Functions", 1976, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    6. "Chrisley (Ron) & Sloman (Aaron) - Functionalism, revisionism, and qualia", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    7. "Cole (David) - Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity", 1991, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    8. "Cole (David) - Functionalism and Inverted Spectra", 1990, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    9. "Davis (Lawrence H.) - Functionalism and Personal Identity", 1998, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Fuller (Gary) - Functionalism and Personal Identity", 1992, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    11. "Graham (George) - Mind and Belief in Computers", 1998, Read = 29%
    12. "Horgan (Terence) - Functionalism, Qualia, and the Inverted Spectrum", 1984, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Kim (Jaegwon) - Mind as a Computer: Machine Functionalism", 1998, Read = 19%
    14. "Koons (Robert C.) - Functionalism without physicalism: Outline of an emergentist program", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    15. "Levin (Janet) - Functionalism", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    16. "McCullagh (Mark) - Functionalism and self-consciousness", 2000
    17. "Metzinger (Thomas) - Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity", 2004, Book, Read = 1%
    18. "Olson (Eric) - What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    19. "Polger (Thomas) - Functionalism", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%, Footnote₁₂
    20. "Putnam (Hilary) - Why Functionalism Didn't Work", 1992, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Ross (Don) & Spurrett (David) - What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: A defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    22. "Shapiro (Lawrence) - The Mind Incarnate", 2005, Book, Read = 1%
    23. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Functionalism and Personal Identity - a Reply", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    24. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Personal Identity: a Materialist Account", 1984, Read = 22%, Footnote₁₃
    25. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self and Substance", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Wilson (David C.) - Functionalism and Moral Personhood: One View Considered", 1984, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    27. "Wright (Larry) - Functions", 1973, Internal PDF Link

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder¹⁴.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 12:

• This article is about Functionalism in the philosophy of mind, but might provide good background.

Footnote 13:

• This, and the following paper by Shoemaker, are the targets (says Shoemaker) of the papers by Agar and Olson.

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Functionalism	Research - Proposal

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Body Criterion	Consciousness	Note Links Explanation
Physicalism	Plug Note Apologia	Psychological View	Thought Experiments	Uploading
Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Androids	Animalism	Artifacts	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Birch - The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
Brain State Transfer	Brains in Vats	Computers	Olson - What Are We? Animals	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4
RIP: The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Siliconisation, 2	Status: Personal Identity (2025 - December), 2	Status: Priority Task List (2026 - February), 2	Status: Summary (2025 - December), 2
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2, 3	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Agar (Nicholas)	Functionalism and Personal Identity	Paper
Armstrong (David)	A Materialist Theory of the Mind	Book
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Functionalism	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Birch (Jonathan)	The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI	Paper		Yes
Boesch (Brandon)	More-than-human science	Paper		Yes
Campbell (Scott)	Persons and Substances	Paper
Dennett (Daniel)	Where Am I?	Paper		Yes
Hanley (Richard)	The Metaphysics of Star Trek: To Beam or Not to Beam?	Paper		Yes
Hart (David Bentley)	The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all	Paper		Yes
Horgan (Terence)	Functionalism, Qualia, and the Inverted Spectrum	Paper
Krauss (Lawrence M.)	The Physics of Star Trek: Atoms or Bits?	Paper		Yes
Metzinger (Thomas)	Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity	Book
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper		Yes
Papineau (David)	Introducing Consciousness	Paper	2	Yes
Rachlin (Howard)	Teleological behaviourism or what it means to imagine a lion	Paper		Yes
RIP	The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Paper
Ross (Don) & Spurrett (David)	What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: A defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Androids	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Artifacts	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain State Transfer	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brains in Vats	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Computers	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Siliconisation	Paper	2	Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Agar (Nicholas)	Functionalism and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Nous, Mar2003, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p52-70, 19p;	6%
Alston (William)	Functionalism and Theological Language	Paper - Cited	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Jul., 1985), pp. 221-230	22%
Arnadottir (Steinvor Tholl)	Functionalism and Thinking Animals	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 147, No. 3 (February 2010), pp. 347-354	22%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	A Farewell to Functionalism	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jul., 1985), pp. 1-13	8%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Functionalism	Paper - Cited	Robert Audi, editor, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. CUP, New York, 1995	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Just What Do We Have in Mind?	Paper - By Subtopic	Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 10), 1986, pages 25–48	7%
Bealer (George)	Fregean Equivocation and Ramsification on Sparse Theories: Response to McCullagh	Paper - Cited	Mind and Language 15(5): 500-510. Nov. 2000.	No
Bealer (George)	Self-Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review 106, No. 1, Jan., 1997, pp. 69-117	No
Bergporsson (Jon Birkir)	How Virtual Machines Can Instantiate Strong Artificial Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Master of Philosophy Thesis, Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society, Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, August 2016	2%
Block (Ned)	Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Guttenplan - A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind	No
Block (Ned)	The Mind as the Software of the Brain	Paper - By Subtopic	Osherson - Invitation to Cognitive Science (Vol. 3 - Thinking)	5%
Block (Ned)	Troubles with Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Block - Readings in Philosophy of Psychology - Vol 1	No
Block (Ned)	What is Functionalism?	Paper - By Subtopic	Block - Readings in Philosophy of Psychology - Vol 1	No
Block (Ned), Ed.	Readings in Philosophy of Psychology - Vol 1	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Block (Ned), Ed. - Readings in Philosophy of Psychology - Vol 1	7%
Boorse (Christopher)	Wright on Functions	Paper - Cited	The Philosophical Review , Jan., 1976, Vol. 85, No. 1 (Jan., 1976), pp. 70-86	13%
Chrisley (Ron) & Sloman (Aaron)	Functionalism, revisionism, and qualia	Paper - Cited	APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 16 (1), 2016, pp. 2-13	8%
Cole (David)	Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Synthese 88.3, 1991, 399-417	11%
Cole (David)	Functionalism and Inverted Spectra	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Vol. 82, No. 2, Epistemology and Cognition, Part I (Feb., 1990), pp. 207-222	13%
Davis (Lawrence H.)	Functionalism and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), 781-804	No
Dennett (Daniel)	Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	43%
Dennett (Daniel)	Where Am I?	Paper - Cited	Dennett - Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Chapter 17, 1978	Yes
Earman (John), Ed.	Inference, Explanation and Other Philosophical Frustrations	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Earman (John), Ed. - Inference, Explanation and Other Philosophical Frustrations	4%
Fuller (Gary)	Functionalism and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Personalist Forum 8, #1 Supplement, 1992, 133-143	22%
Graham (George)	Mind and Belief in Computers	Paper - By Subtopic	Graham (George) - Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, Chapter 5	29%
Graham (George)	Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Graham (George) - Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction	17%
Gray (Jeffrey)	Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gray (Jeffrey) - Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem	3%
Gray (Jeffrey)	Scrutinising functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Gray - Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, Chapter 10	No
Gray (Peter)	Genetic and Evolutionary Foundations of Behavior	Paper - By Subtopic	Gray (Peter) - Psychology, Chapter 3	No
Gray (Peter)	Psychology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gray (Peter) - Psychology	2%
Guttenplan (Samuel), Ed.	A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Guttenplan (Samuel), Ed. - A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind	1%
Hershenov (David)	Olson's Account of Function and Substance Concepts	Paper - By Subtopic	Hershenov's Website	6%
Horgan (Terence)	Functionalism, Qualia, and the Inverted Spectrum	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44, No. 4, Jun., 1984, pp. 453-469	No
Jackson (Frank) & Pettit (Philip)	Functionalism and Broad Content	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind 97.387, July 1988, pp. 381-400	No
JCS	Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 01, Issue 2 (1994)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	JCS - Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 01, Issue 2 (1994)	9%
Kim (Jaegwon)	Mind as a Computer: Machine Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Philosophy of Mind, 1998, Chapter 4	19%
Kim (Jaegwon)	Philosophy of Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Kim (Jaegwon) - Philosophy of Mind	5%
Koons (Robert C.)	Functionalism without physicalism: Outline of an emergentist program	Paper - By Subtopic	Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design 2 (3-3) (2003)	7%
Lavelle (Suilin)	Minds, Brains and Computers	Paper - Cited	Ward (Dave), Pritchard (Duncan), Massimi (Michela), Lavelle (Suilin), Chrisman (Matthew), Hazlett (Allan) & Richmond (Alasdair) - Introduction to Philosophy, 2013	Yes
Levin (Janet)	Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy	4%
Lycan (William)	Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Guttenplan - A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind	No
Lycan (William)	Mind and Cognition - An Anthology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lycan (William) - Mind and Cognition - An Anthology	1%
Lycan (William)	Ontology: The Identity Theory and Functionalism - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Lycan - Mind and Cognition - An Anthology, 1999	No
Marcel (Anthony J.)	Phenomenal experience and functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Marcel & Bisiach - Consciousness in Contemporary Science	No
Marcel (Anthony J.) & Bisiach (Edoardo)	Consciousness in Contemporary Science	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Marcel (Anthony J.) & Bisiach (Edoardo) - Consciousness in Contemporary Science	2%
McCullagh (Mark)	Functionalism and self-consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind and Language 15, 2000, pp. 481-499	No
McGinn (Colin)	Functionalism and Phenomenalism: A Critical Note	Paper - By Subtopic	McGinn - The Problem of Consciousness, Chapter 7	12%
McGinn (Colin)	The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	McGinn (Colin) - The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution	19%
Metzinger (Thomas)	Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity	Book - Cited	Metzinger (Thomas) - Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity	1%
Moody (Todd C.)	Conversations with Zombies	Paper - By Subtopic	JCS - Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 01, Issue 2 (1994)	Yes
Nagel (Thomas)	Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy - 73/285 (July 1998), pp 337-352	No
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Philosophy - 73/285 (July 1998)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy - 73/285 (July 1998)	No
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	16%
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Contents + References	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology - Contents + References (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Nous, Dec2002, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p682-698, 17p;	13%
Osherson (Daniel) & Smith (Edward E.)	Invitation to Cognitive Science (Vol. 3 - Thinking)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Osherson (Daniel) & Smith (Edward E.) - Invitation to Cognitive Science (Vol. 3 - Thinking)	1%
Papineau (David)	Introducing Consciousness	Book - Cited	Papineau (David) - Introducing Consciousness	Yes
Plantinga (Alvin)	Positive Epistemic Status and Proper Function	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 2, Epistemology (1988) (pp. 1-50)	No
Polger (Thomas)	Functionalism	Paper - Cited	The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, June 2008	17%
Pollock (John L.)	Functionalism and Psychophysical Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Pollock - How to Build a Person, Chapter 3	No
Pollock (John L.)	How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Pollock (John L.) - How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon	4%
Putnam (Hilary)	Why Functionalism Didn't Work	Paper - By Subtopic	Earman (John), Ed. - Inference, Explanation and Other Philosophical Frustrations	No
Ross (Don) & Spurrett (David)	What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: A defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists	Paper - By Subtopic	Behavioral And Brain Sciences (2004) 27, 603–647	8%
Searle (John)	The Rediscovery of the Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Searle (John) - The Rediscovery of the Mind	15%
Searle (John)	What's Wrong with the Philosophy of Mind?	Paper - By Subtopic	Searle - The Rediscovery of the Mind, 1992, Chapter 1	38%
Shapiro (Lawrence)	The Mind Incarnate	Book - By Subtopic	Shapiro (Lawrence) - The Mind Incarnate	1%
Shapiro (Lawrence)	The Mind Incarnate	Paper - By Subtopic	Shapiro (Lawrence) - The Mind Incarnate	1%
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Functionalism and Personal Identity - a Reply	Paper - Cited	Nous, 38:3 (2004), pp. 525-533	22%
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Functionalism and Qualia	Paper - By Subtopic	Shoemaker - Identity, Cause and Mind	No
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Identity, Cause and Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Shoemaker (Sydney) - Identity, Cause and Mind	5%
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Identity, Cause and Mind	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	5%
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Personal Identity: a Materialist Account	Paper - Cited	Shoemaker & Swinburne - Personal Identity, 1984, pp. 67-132	22%
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Self and Substance	Paper - Cited	Shoemaker - Identity, Cause and Mind	No
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Some Varieties of Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Shoemaker - Identity, Cause and Mind	No
Shoemaker (Sydney) & Swinburne (Richard)	Personal Identity	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	11%
Sprague (Elmer)	Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Sprague - Persons and Their Minds, 1999, Chapter 8	No
Sprague (Elmer)	Persons and Their Minds: A Philosophical Investigation	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sprague (Elmer) - Persons and Their Minds: A Philosophical Investigation	No
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Almost One, Overlap and Function	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 75, no. 1 (2015): 45–52	33%
Thomas (Janice L.)	Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Functionalism	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Tye (Michael)	Qualia	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 1997-2007	Yes
Ward (Dave), Pritchard (Duncan), Massimi (Michela), Lavelle (Suilin), Chrisman (Matthew), Hazlett (Allan) & Richmond (Alasdair)	Introduction to Philosophy	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	No
Wilson (David C.)	Functionalism and Moral Personhood: One View Considered	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44, No. 4, Jun., 1984, pp. 521-529	22%
Wright (Larry)	Functions	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review 82.2, April 1973, pp. 139-168	No

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