 One respect in which Shea’s approach is very attractive is the fact that he pays close attention to the explanatory role of representations, and offers a detailed argument for the claim that his theory can account for the “explanatory purchase” of representational properties (Shea 2018, ch. 8). Another potential advantage is the fact that Shea does not rely on the producer-consumer model that has long dominated in the teleosemantics literature, and instead adopts a more flexible framework that allows for highly interconnected representational systems that cannot be cleanly separated into subsystems (Shea 2018, 19).