Randolph Nesse

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1 Introduction The notions of function and dysfunction are fundamental for neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. However, they spur continuing controversy, with ongoing debate about how best to conceptualize and operationalize function and dysfunction, including a large body of work in philosophy of biology, medicine and psychiatry (Allen et al. 1998; Schwartz 2007; Griffiths and Matthewson 2018; Keeling et al. 2019).