Is role-functionalism committed to epiphenomenalism?

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 39-66

  McLaughlin, Brian P ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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