Swampman, teleosemantics and kind essences

Abstract One powerful and influential approach to mental representation analyses in terms of biological functions, functions histories natural selection. This “teleosemantic” package, however, faces a familiar challenge. Surely depends only on the present-day structures cognitive systems, not their historical provenance. “Swampman” drives point home. Suppose bolt lightning creates an intrinsic duplicate human being steamy tropic swamp; will this creature be representing its surroundings, despite lack any selectional history? In paper I shall answer challenge by showing how proper appreciation structure kinds general, particular, implies that are indeed built into nature representation. address recent argument Peter Schulte against general line argument.