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.
Causation in Development and Evolution
Plutynski, A. (2022). On Explaining Peto’s Paradox. European Journal of Epidemiology.
Plutynski, A. (2022). Philosophical issues in cancer and public health. In A. Broadbent & S. Venkatapuram, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health (1st ed., pp. 393–406). Routledge.
Poliseli, L., Coutinho, J. G. E., Viana, B., Russo, F., & El-Hani, C. N. (2022). Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 21.
Pollen, A. A., Kilik, U., Lowe, C. B., & Camp, J. G. (2023). Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics.
Pontarotti, G. (2022). L’hérédité Pétoeunrduunee ebniologie mbiolmécéudleaciirnee. 38.
Pontarotti, G., & Merlin, F. (2023). From Exposome to Pathogenic Niche. Looking for an Operational Account of the Environment in Health Studies. In É. Giroux, F. Merlin, & Y. Fayet (Eds.), Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research (pp. 173–206). Springer International Publishing.
Pontarotti, G., Dussault, A. C., & Merlin, F. (2022). Conceptualizing the Environment in Natural Sciences: Guest Editorial. Biological Theory, 17(1), 1–3.
Pontarotti, G., Mossio, M., & Pocheville, A. (2022). The genotype–phenotype distinction: from Mendelian genetics to 21st century biology. Genetica.
Reed, W. J., Ison, J. L., Waananen, A., Shaw, F. H., Wagenius, S., & Shaw, R. G. (2022). Genetic variation in reproductive timing in a long‐lived herbaceous perennial. American Journal of Botany, 109(11), 1861–1874.
Reydon, T. A. C. (2023). The proper role of history in evolutionary explanations. Noûs, 57(1), 162–187.
Richards, R.J. (2000). "Kant and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb: a historical misunderstanding." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 31:11-32.
Richardson, L. K., Beck, J., Eck, D. J., Shaw, R., & Wagenius, S. (2023). Fire effects on plant reproductive fitness vary among individuals, reflecting pollination‐dependent mechanisms. American Journal of Botany, 110(4), e16160.
Rosslenbroich, B. (2023). Properties of Life: Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology. The MIT Press.
Sarkar S. GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2023;46:e227.
Scott-Phillips, T.C., K.N. Laland, D.M. Shuker, T.E. Dickins and S.A. West. (2014). "The niche construction perspective: a critical appraisal." Evolution 68(5):1231–1243.
Smith, D. J. B., & Masel, J. (2023). The Interaction Between Exploitative and Interference Competition: Limits to R * Theory [Preprint]. Ecology.
Snell-Rood, E. C., & Kobiela, M. E. (2023). Rearing the Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae) in Controlled Conditions: A Case Study with Heavy Metal Tolerance. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 198, 65383.
Sreepadmanabh, M., Ganesh, M., Bhat, R., & Bhattacharjee, T. (2023). Jammed microgel growth medium prepared by flash-solidification of agarose for 3D cell culture and 3D bioprinting [Preprint]. Bioengineering.
Sultan, S.E. (2015). Organism and Environment: Ecological Development, Niche Construction, and Adaptation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Takacs, P., & Bourrat, P. (2022). The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness. Biology & Philosophy, 37(2), 12.
Uller, T. (2023). Agency, Goal Orientation, and Evolutionary Explanations. Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems. MIT Press.
Walsh, D. (2022). Environment as Abstraction. Biological Theory, 17(1), 68–79.
Walsh, D. M., & Rupik, G. (2023). The agential perspective: Countermapping the modern synthesis. Evolution & Development, ede.12448.
Williams, T. A., Davin, A. A., Morel, B., Szánthó, L. L., Spang, A., Stamatakis, A., Hugenholtz, P., & Szöllősi, G. J. (2023). The power and limitations of species tree-aware phylogenetics [Preprint]. Evolutionary Biology.
Smith, J.E.H., ed. (2006). The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.