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

In this paper I discuss the naturalistic and objectivist concept of mental illness as biological dysfunction. I argue for the so‐called selected effect accounts, as alternative to biostatistical accounts. In order to reply to accuses of normativism, particularly ethical normativism, I defend a minimalist account according to which the term "function" should be understood as, if not replaced by, the mechanistic‐evolutionary expression “evolutionarily pertinent activity”.