This bibliography gathers publications over many years from a variety of researchers exploring topics of agency, directionality, and function (among others) with a special emphasis on CASP members. It began with work from teams within the initial Agency, Directionality and Function project and continues to be populated with papers and articles from diverse researchers looking to further develop and expand ways of working interdisciplinarily on the complex theme of teleology.
Included in the bibliography are entries for publications and books that many scholars involved in the Agency, Directionality and Function project recommended as foundational texts in their field of study. We welcome suggestions for additions to the bibliography from CASP members.
Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism
Peterson, E. (2016). The Life Organic: The Theoretical BIology Club and the Roots of Epigenesis. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Russell, E.S. (1945). The Directiveness of Organic Activities. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
Smith, J.E.H. (2011). Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Woodger, J.H. (1929). Biological Principles. London: K. Paul, Trench and Trubner.