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.
Agency and Autonomy
Uller, T. and H. Helanterä. (2019). “Niche construction and conceptual change in evolutionary biology. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science 70:351–375.
Virenque, L., & Mossio, M. (2023). What is Agency? A View from Autonomy Theory. Biological Theory.
W. Schulz, A., & Robins, S. (2022). Episodic Memory, Simulated Future Planning, and their Evolution. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
Walsh, D. (2015). Organisms, Agency and Evolution. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University 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.
Weber, A. and Varela, F. (2002). “Life after Kant: natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1:97–125.
Woodger, J.H. (1929). Biological Principles. London: K. Paul, Trench and Trubner.