Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes

In Maurice Kenneth Davy Schouten & Huibert Looren de Jong, The matter of the mind: philosophical essays on psychology, neuroscience, and reduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell. pp. 31-50 (2007)
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The paper argues that a broadly functionalist picture of psychological phenomena is quite consistent with at least one interesting thesis of psychological reductionism.

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