--- abstract: "Philosopher Wilfrid Sellars was one of the contemporary functionalism precursors when he\r\nconceived mental states as theoretical entities identified with functional states, conception\r\ndefended mainly in his most relevant work Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, broadly\r\ndiscussed on the academic context of analytical tradition. On this book, Sellars introduces his\r\nexplanation of mental, gathering on the same thesis private events, intententionality , a public\r\nlanguage and a system based on rules defined intersubjectivity Therefore, this work intends to\r\nshow how much this author anticipated the functionalist project, particularly introducing, on\r\nthe first part, Sellars’s proposal in the 50s and, later, characterize the following decade\r\nfunctionalism. Finally, we evaluate Sellars’s influence on the quoted theoretical functionalists\r\ne comment the range and importance of this author for the mind philosophy e current\r\nlanguages. © Cien. Cogn. 2009; Vol. 14 (3): 024-038." altloc: - http://www.cienciasecognicao.org/pdf/v14_3/m174.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - maroldi@gmail.com creators_name: - family: Maroldi given: Marcelo Masson honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2009-12-30 date_type: completed datestamp: 2009-12-19 12:23:37 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/67/37 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6737 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6737/1/m174.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:34 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 3 pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: Ciências & Cognição publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 24 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2009-12-19 12:23:37 subjects: - phil-mind - phil-lang succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'The Sellars’s functionalism: a historical research' type: newsarticle userid: 7705 volume: 14