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work_yp5gzwumgjf5jcz4bsj5yknjly	Bence Nanay	Teleosemantics without Etiology	2014	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6028	548	64	is to argue that we should be loyal to the scientific research program of teleosemantics and make it more progressive by updating the concept of biological function it uses. An important feature of the concept of function that any theory needs to be able to account for is the possibility of malfunctioning. And as, according to those versions of teleosemantics that use the etiological function, mental content is determined by The problem is that there is no coherent noncircular way of individuating trait types that is available to the etiological theory of function. According to the etiological theory, the function of my token heart is determined by some facts about what happened to some other traits that were But the etiological theory of function cannot help itself to this way of individuating trait representation's carrying information about the action-properties it represents would contribute to the organism's fitness.	./cache/work_yp5gzwumgjf5jcz4bsj5yknjly.pdf	./txt/work_yp5gzwumgjf5jcz4bsj5yknjly.txt