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.
Adaptation and Adaptationism
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.
Turner, J.S. (2007).The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Valach, M., Moreira, S., Petitjean, C., Benz, C., Butenko, A., Flegontova, O., Nenarokova, A., Prokopchuk, G., Batstone, T., Lapébie, P., Lemogo, L., Sarrasin, M., Stretenowich, P., Tripathi, P., Yazaki, E., Nara, T., Henrissat, B., Lang, B. F., Gray, M. W., … Burger, G. (2023). Recent expansion of metabolic versatility in Diplonema papillatum, the model species of a highly speciose group of marine eukaryotes. BMC Biology, 21(1), 99.
W. Schulz, A. (2023). Explaining Human Diversity: the Need to Balance Fit and Complexity. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14(2), 457–475.
Walsh, D. (2015). Organisms, Agency and Evolution. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
Williams, G.C. (1966). Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Wouters, A. (2007). “Design explanation: determining the constraints on what can be alive.” Erkenntnis 67:65–80.