Publications

Plutynski, A. (2023). Four Ways of Going “Right” Functions in Mental Disorder. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 30(2), 181–191.

Potochnik, A. (2008). "Optimality modeling in a suboptimal world." Biology & Philosophy 24(2): 183–197.

Reiss, J.O. (2009). Not by Design: Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Rifkin, M. J., & Garson, J. (2023). Sex by design: a new account of the animal sexes. Biology & Philosophy, 38(2), 13.

Rocca, J. (ed.) (2017). Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical Approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rose, M.R. and Lauder, G.V. (1996). Adaptation. London: Academic Press.

Rosenblueth, A., Wiener, N. and Bigelow, J. (1943). “Behavior, purpose and teleology.” Philosophy of Science 10:18–24.

Ruse, M. (1989). “Teleology in biology: is it a cause for concern?” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 4(2): 51 - 54.

Ruse, M. (2003).Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.

Ruse, M. (2018). On Purpose. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Russell, E.S. (1945). The Directiveness of Organic Activities. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

Rytkönen, K. T., Faux, T., Mahmoudian, M., Heinosalo, T., Nnamani, M. C., Perheentupa, A., Poutanen, M., Elo, L. L., & Wagner, G. P. (2022). Histone H3K4me3 breadth in hypoxia reveals endometrial core functions and stress adaptation linked to endometriosis. IScience, 25(5), 104235.

Sarkar, S. (2023). That was the Philosophy of Biology that was: Mainx, Woodger, Nagel, and Logical Empiricism, 1929–1961. Biological Theory.

Schiefsky, M.J. (2007). Galen's teleology and functional explanation. In Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 33, ed. D. Sedley, 369–400. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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.