According to alethic functionalism, truth is a higher-order multiply realizable property of propositions. After briefly presenting the view's main principles and motivations, I defend alethic ...

Gary Hatfield, Radical Empiricism, Critical Realism, and American Functionalism: James and Sellars, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5, No ...

The revolution produced modern cognitive science, and functionalism became the new dominant theory of the mind.