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.
Function and Teleology
Schlosser, G. (1998). “Self-re-production and functionality: a systems-theoretical approach to teleological explanation.” Synthese 116:303–354.
Sfara, E. (2023). From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 45(16).
Sfara, E., & El-Hani, C. N. (2023). Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective. Biology & Philosophy, 38(5), 37.
Snell-Rood, E. C., & Smirnoff, D. (2023). Biology for biomimetics I: function as an interdisciplinary bridge in bio-inspired design. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(5), 052001.
Trestman, M.A. (2012). Implicit and explicit goal-directedness. Erkenntnis 77:207–236.
Walsh, D. (2008). “Teleology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Edited by M. Ruse. New York: Oxford University Press, 113–137.
Williams, G.C. (1966). Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Wimsatt, W.C. (1972). “Teleology and the logical structure of function statements.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 3:1–80.
Wimsatt, W.C. (2002). “Functional organization, analogy and inference.” In Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. Edited by A. Ariew, R. Cummins and M. Perlman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wouters, A. (2004). “The function debate in philosophy.” Acta Biotheoretica 53:123–151.
Wouters, A. (2007). “Design explanation: determining the constraints on what can be alive.” Erkenntnis 67:65–80.
Wright, L. (1973). “Functions.” The Philosophical Review 82(2):139–168.
Wright, L. (1976). >Teleological Explanations: An Etiological Analysis of Goals and Functions. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Zammito, J. (2006). “Teleology then and now: The question of Kant’s relevance for contemporary controversies over function in biology.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37(4):748–770.
Zammito, J. (2018). The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Genomics
Álvarez-Carretero, S., Kapli, P., & Yang, Z. (2023). Beginner’s Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(4), msad041.
Álvarez-Carretero, S., Kapli, P., & Yang, Z. (2023). Beginner’s Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(4), msad041.
Au, E. H., Fauci, C., Luo, Y., Mangan, R. J., Snellings, D. A., Shoben, C. R., Weaver, S., Simpson, S. K., & Lowe, C. B. (2023). Gonomics: uniting high performance and readability for genomics with Go. Bioinformatics, 39(8), btad516.
Davín, A. A., Schrempf, D., Williams, T. A., Hugenholtz, P., & Szöllősi, G. J. (2022). Relative Time Inference Using Lateral Gene Transfers. In H. Luo (Ed.), Environmental Microbial Evolution (Vol. 2569, pp. 75–94). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2691-7_4
Gehlert, F. O., Nickel, L., Vakirlis, N., Hammerschmidt, K., Vargas Gebauer, H. I., Kießling, C., Kupczok, A., & Schmitz, R. A. (2023). Active in vivo translocation of the Methanosarcina mazei Gö1 Casposon. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(13), 6927–6943.
Gomez-Garrido, J., Cruz, F., Alioto, T. S., Feiner, N., Uller, T., Gut, M., Sanchez Escudero, I., Tavecchia, G., Rotger, A., Otalora Acevedo, K. E., & Baldo, L. (2023). Chromosome-level genome assembly of Lilford’s wall lizard, Podarcis lilfordi (Günther, 1874) from the Balearic Islands (Spain). DNA Research, 30(3), dsad008.
Juravel, K., Porras, L., Höhna, S., Pisani, D., & Wörheide, G. (2023). Exploring genome gene content and morphological analysis to test recalcitrant nodes in the animal phylogeny. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282444.
Lin, H., Moody, E. R. R., Williams, T. A., & Moreau, J. (2023). On the Origin and Evolution of Microbial Mercury Methylation. Genome Biology and Evolution, 15(4).
Livnat, A., & Melamed, D. (2023). Evolutionary honing in and mutational replacement: how long-term directed mutational responses to specific environmental pressures are possible. Theory in Biosciences, 142(2), 87–105.
Sarkar S. GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2023;46:e227.