Philosophy of Biology

Functions 541 towards the bottom of a cup may not reach that state simply because, let’s say, Armageddon occurs before such equi ...

542 Tim Lewens ics. This was the time when artificial systems were first constructed that could monitor their surroundings and m ...

Functions 543 of artefacts, we specify what a plan is for by reference to the intentions of the architect; for organisms we will ...

544 Tim Lewens us about the organic world. What allows us to identify this, rather than any other equally unlikely arrangement o ...

Functions 545 towards some normal end state, and only by reference to this end state can we reckon some developmental trajectori ...

546 Tim Lewens overall accounts they offer of ethical qualities. Similarly, the Kantian projectivist account of functions and go ...

Functions 547 [Godfrey-Smith, 1994]P. Godfrey-Smith. A modern history theory of functions.Nous28: 344– 362, 1994. [Griffiths, 19 ...

BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MENTAL REPRESENTATION Karen Neander 1 THE PROBLEM OF INTENTIONALITY Teleosemantics is a biologically in ...

550 Karen Neander notion of function, or in other words a notion of function that underwrites talk of malfunction and that is co ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 551 than carry information in the way that natural signs do — they represent. And ...

552 Karen Neander who support teleosemantics are not claiming that functional norms (or “quasi- norms” if you wish) are prescrip ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 553 second here for illustrative purposes. If we think of functions as selected d ...

554 Karen Neander or a memory of last night’s dinner. Just as the notion of function is a peculiarity of biology relative to the ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 555 can see the important intentional generalizations. On this view, neuroscience ...

556 Karen Neander 4 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: NEUROSCIENCE This view of neuroscience needs to be discarded. Neuroscience is an intent ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 557 it lacks the disposition to perform. CR-functions are not normative, because ...

558 Karen Neander to the subsumption strategy. We can easily imagine biologists express- ing their analyses in a form analogous ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 559 5 SOME PROBLEMS FOR TELEOSEMANTICS If the argument just offered is along the ...

560 Karen Neander of things. Genic selection might then partly determine the content of a particular animal species concept. It ...

Biological Approaches to Mental Representation 561 tion: Tomorrow is the day after today.^6 And so, as long as DAY, TODAY and AF ...