O funcionalismo de Sellars: uma pesquisa histδrica



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Artigo Cientffico

O funcionalismo de Sellars: uma pesquisa histδrica

The Sellars’s functionalism: a historical research

Marcelo Masson MaroldK

Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Resumo

O filôsofo Wilfrid Sellars foi um dos precursores do funcionalismo contemporâneo ao
conceber estados mentais como entidades teôricas identificadas com estados funcionais,
concepçao defendida principalmente em sua obra mais relevante,
Empirismo e Filosofia da
Mente,
amplamente discutida nos meios acadêmicos de tradiçao anaHtica. Neste livro, Sellars
apresenta sua explicaçao do mental, reunindo numa mesma tese eventos privados,
intencionalidade, uma linguagem pùblica e um sistema baseado em regras definidas
intersubjetivamente. Assim, este trabalho pretende mostrar em que medida este autor antecipou
o projeto funcionalista, particularmente algumas ideias de Hilary Putnam, Jerry Fodor e Daniel
Dennett. Para isso, começamos apresentando, na primeira parte, a proposta de Sellars nos anos
50 e, posteriormente, caracterizamos o funcionalismo da década seguinte. Finalmente,
avaliamos a influência de Sellars sobre os teôricos funcionalistas citados e comentamos a
abrangência e importância deste autor para a filosofia da mente e da linguagem atuais. © Cien.
Cogn. 2009; Vol. 14 (3): 024-038.

Palavras-chave: funcionalismo; Sellars; Putnam; Fodor; Dennett.

Abstract

Philosopher Wilfrid Sellars was one of the contemporary functionalism precursors when he
conceived mental states as theoretical entities identified with functional states, conception
defended mainly in his most relevant work Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, broadly
discussed on the academic context of analytical tradition. On this book, Sellars introduces his
explanation of mental, gathering on the same thesis private events, intententionality , a public
language and a system based on rules defined intersubjectivity Therefore, this work intends to
show how much this author anticipated the functionalist project, particularly introducing, on
the first part, Sellars’s proposal in the 50s and, later, characterize the following decade
functionalism. Finally, we evaluate Sellars’s influence on the quoted theoretical functionalists
e comment the range and importance of this author for the mind philosophy e current
languages. © Cien. Cogn. 2009; Vol. 14 (3): 024-038.

Keywords: functionalism; Sellars; Putnam; Fodor; Dennett.

Introduçâo

“Meu problema imediato é ver se consigo conciliar a idéia clâssica de pensamentos
como episôdios internos, os quais nao sao nem comportamento pùblico nem

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