# Of Marigold Beer- A Reply to Vermaas and Houkes **Abstract:** Vermaas and Houkes advance four desideratafor theories of artifact function, and classify such theories into non-intentionalistreproductiontheories on the one hand and intentionalist non-reproduction theories on the other. They argue that nonintentionalistreproductiontheoriesfail to satisfy theirfourth desideratum.They maintain that only an intentionalistnon-reproductiontheory can satisfy all the desiderata, and they offer a version that they believe does satisfy all of them. I reply that intentionalist non-reproductiontheories, including their version, fail to satisfy their first desideratum. Thus neither type of function theory satisfies all the desiderata. This suggests that the list of desideratamay well be inconsistent, and that ultimately we may have to decide whether to give up the first desideratum or the fourth one. I recommendgiving up the fourth one on the grounds that this choice preservesthe phenomenologicallysalient social aspects of artifact function. **Authors:** [[Preston]]