James M. Stedman, Thomas L. Spalding, Christina L. Gagné, Does Functionalism Offer an Adequate Account of Cognitive Psychology?, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Winter 2016), pp.

We argue that analytic functionalism provides the best account of the folk psychological theory of mind, and that people ordinarily define mental states relative to the causal roles these states ...