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    Challenges→Psychological altruism does not entail biological altruism.

    If a desire's content is constituted by its biological proper function, then a desire directed at offspring welfare just is, at the level of content-individuation, a fitness-promoting state.

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    Constituted by(describing what conditions would make something true)
    Made up of or determined by; in this case, what things would need to happen for something to count as true.
    at the level of(general philosophy)
    When you're analyzing something from a particular perspective or way of looking at it—here, analyzing based on what the desire is about rather than other features.
    biological proper function(philosophy of biology)
    The specific job that a biological feature was naturally selected to do—like how the proper function of eyes is to help us see.
    content-individuation(philosophy of mind)
    The process of figuring out what makes one desire different from another based on what each desire is about.
    desire's content

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    (philosophy of mind)
    What a desire is actually about or directed toward—for example, the content of a desire for water is water itself.
    fitness-promoting state(evolutionary biology and philosophy)
    A mental or biological condition that increases an organism's chances of surviving and reproducing successfully.

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