Publications

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.

Ågren, A. J. (2021). Why the selfish genes metaphor remains a powerful thinking tool | Aeon Essays. Aeon.

Ågren, J. A. (n.d.). Genes and Organisms in the Legacy of the Modern Synthesis. In T. E. Dickins & B. J. A. Dickins (Eds.), Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory (Vol. 6). Springer Nature.

Ågren, J. A., & Patten, M. M. (2022). Genetic conflicts and the case for licensed anthropomorphizing. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(12), 166.

Arnellos, A., & Moreno, A. (2022). Cognitive functions are not reducible to biological ones: the case of minimal visual perception. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 35.

Austin, C. J. (2023). Complex Powers Making Many One. In A. Marmodoro, A. Roselli, & C. J. Austin (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (1st ed.). Routledge.

Barandiaran, X., E. Di Paolo, and M. Rohde. (2009). “Defining agency. Individuality, normativity, asymmetry and spatio-temporality in action.” Adaptive Behavior 17(5):367–386.

Bechtel, W., & Bich, L. (2023). Using neurons to maintain autonomy: Learning from C. elegans. Biosystems, 232, 105017.

Beckner, M. (1968).The Biological Way of Thought. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press.

Bich, L., & Bechtel, W. (2022). Control mechanisms: Explaining the integration and versatility of biological organisms. Adaptive Behavior, 105971232210744.

Bich, L., & Bechtel, W. (2022). Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93, 96–106.

Black, A.J., Bourrat, P. and Rainey, P.B. (2020). “Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:426–436.

Buss, L. (1987). The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Callebaut, W. G.B. Mueller, and S.A. Newman. (2007). “The organismic systems approach. Streamlining the naturalistic agenda.” In Integrating Evolution and Development: From Theory to Practice. Edited by R. Sansom and R.N. Brandon. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 25–92.

Camazine, S., J.-L. Deneubourg, N. R. Franks, J. Sneyd, G. Theraulaz and E. Bonabeau. (2001). Self-Organization in Biological Systems. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Davies, J., & Levin, M. (2023). Synthetic morphology with agential materials. Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 1(1), 46–59.

Dawkins, R. (1976).The Selfish Gene.Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dawkins, R. (1982).The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection.Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Deacon, T. and Cashman, T. (2013). “Teleology versus mechanism in biology: beyond self-organization.” In Beyond Mechanism: New Frontiers in Biology and Evolutionary Theory. Edited by B. Henning and A. Scarfe. Lanham (MD): Lexington Books.