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  • Max Weber
    philosophy of mind
    / Functionalism

    …influential articles, the American philosopher Jaegwon Kim argued for an “exclusion principle” according to which, if a functional property is in fact different from the physical properties that are causally sufficient to explain everything that happens, then it is superfluous, just as are the epiphenomenal angels that push around the…

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    …influential articles, the American philosopher Jaegwon Kim argued for an “exclusion principle” according to which, if a functional property is in fact different from the physical properties that are causally sufficient to explain everything that happens, then it is superfluous, just as are the epiphenomenal angels that push around the…

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