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--- abstract: "There has been much discussion of so-called teleosemantic approaches to the naturalisation of content. Such discussion, though, has been largely confined to simple, innate mental states with contents such as There is a fly here. Even assuming we can solve the issues that crop up at this stage, an account of the content of human mental states will not get too far without an account of productivity: the ability to entertain indefinitely many thoughts. \r\nThe best-known teleosemantic theory, Millikan’s biosemantics, offers an account of productivity in thought. This paper raises a basic worry about this account: that the use of mapping functions in the theory is unacceptable from a naturalistic point of view. " altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - manolomartinez@ub.edu creators_name: - family: Martínez given: Manolo honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2011-03 date_type: submitted datestamp: 2011-05-02 17:13:46 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/72/82 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 7282 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/7282/1/Teleosemantics_and_Productivity_%2D_2nd_version_%2D__edited.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: teleosemantics; productivity; Millikan; compositionality; indexicality lastmod: 2011-05-02 17:13:46 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 26 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2011-05-02 17:13:46 subjects: - phil-lang - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Teleosemantics and Productivity type: preprint userid: 10650 volume: ~