Functionalist theories have been proposed for just about everything: mental states, dispositions, moral properties, truth, causation, and much else. The time has come for a functionalist theory of ...

The functionalist thesis on attitude change is amplified by reference to social-psychological work on the subject. In terms of functionalist theory, attitude change is essentially seen to be the ...

This is the first of a two-part article that examines both structural and processural paradigms of social theory. This argues ...