Analytic Functionalism and the Qualia Objection

Dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada) (1980)
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The aim of this dissertation is to rebut a formidable objection to all fuctionalist theories of the mental. The objection is widely known as "the Qualia Objection." It contends that functionalism is false because it cannot give an adequate account of the non-conceptual, non-cognitive, phenomen

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