Philosophy of biology, mind, and gender🍂https://bsky.app/profile/jroloff.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jroloff.bsky.social/post/3lhjn5bjlqc2kI have a new paper in Synthese! I argue: Millikan’s notions of relational, adapted, and derived proper functions are indispensable parts of every selected effects theory of functions and of teleosemantics! Further, they solve teleosemantics’ problem of novel contents! https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-04921-y06 Feb 2025 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:chssav4p33vbkh67n6a224v4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjn5bjlqc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jroloff.bsky.social/post/3ld6xvin2lk2sCheck out Hanzhe Dong and @gualtiero.bsky.social‘s response to @fhundertmark.bsky.social, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, and my defense of the importance of past selection for theories of functions on @philosophyofbrains.com https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/12/13/rethinking-functions-the-role-of-selection.aspx [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Dec 2024 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:chssav4p33vbkh67n6a224v4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld6xvin2lk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jroloff.bsky.social/post/3ld4fj33aj227Both parts of the response to Dong‘s and @gualtiero.bsky.social blog post about biological functions on @philosophyofbrains.com that I wrote with @fhundertmark.bsky.social and @frabellazzi.bsky.social are out now. We argue that selection is inescapable! It was a pleasure writing this with you!12 Dec 2024 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:chssav4p33vbkh67n6a224v4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld4fj33aj227