Malattia mentale come disfunzione biologico-evolutiva: meccanismi neurali, attività pertinenti ed effetti selettivi

: MENTAL ILLNESS AS BIOLOGICAL‐EVOLUTIVE DYSFUNCTION:\ud NEURAL MECHANISMS, PERTINENT ACTIVITIES AND SELECTED EFFECTS \ud In this paper I discuss the naturalistic and\ud objectivist concept of mental illness as biological\ud dysfunction. I argue for the so‐called selected\ud effect accounts, as alternative to bio‐statistical\ud accounts. In order to reply to accuses of\ud normativism, particularly ethical one, I defend a\ud minimalist account according to which the term\ud "function" should be understood as, if not replaced\ud by, the mechanistic‐evolutionary expression\ud “evolutionarily pertinent activity”