Hilary Putnam on Computational Functionalism

The main theme of the present article is to describe computational functionalism as viewed by Hillary Putnam. The author, at first, describes kinds and aspects of functionalism, and then he goes on to discuss the background and origin of this theory, and describes the nature of functionalism in brief. Then, he shows details of development of this theory in Putnam’s changing thought; the author follows his intellectual development with modifications made in his conception of this idea. The end of this development (which is critique and rejection of the theory by him and others) will be described in the next writing.