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    Facts about evolutionary history or learning history are ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Standard functionalist accounts cannot fully capture the representational content of mental states.

    Facts about evolutionary history or learning history are not reducible to causal role facts.

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    The compatibility of functionalism and representationalism is not evident on its face, though a number of prominent contemporary philosophers appear to embrace both positions (e.g., Fodor 1968, 1975, 1981, 1990; Armstrong 1973; Harman 1973; Lycan 1981a, 1981b; Stalnaker 1984; Lewis 1994). As Millikan (1984), Papineau (1984), and others have suggested, it seems one thing to say that to believe is to be in a state that fills a particular causal role, and it seems quite another to say that beliefs

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