I 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!
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Since the early debates on teleosemantics, there have been people objecting that teleosemantics cannot account for evolutionarily novel contents such as “democracy” (e.g., Peacocke in A Study of Conce...
