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Austin, Christopher J. (2016) Aristotelian Essentialism: Essence in the Age of Evolution. [Preprint]

Austin, Christopher J. (2015) The Dispositional Genome: Primus Inter Pares. [Preprint]

Austin, Christopher J. (2017) A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism. [Preprint]

Austin, Christopher J. (2016) Evo-Devo: A Science of Dispositions. [Preprint]

Austin, Christopher J. and Nuño de la Rosa, Laura (2018) Dispositional Properties in Evo-Devo. [Preprint]

Babcock, Gunnar (2023) Teleology and function in non-living nature. [Preprint]

Bergstrom, Carl and Huttegger, Simon and Zollman, Kevin J.S. (2020) Signals without teleology. [Preprint]

Bogen, Jim and Machamer, Peter (2010) Mechanistic Information and Causal Continuity. [Preprint]

Brigandt, Ingo (2008) Natural Kinds in Evolution and Systematics: Metaphysical and Epistemological Considerations. [Preprint]

Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter (2021) Evolutionary Biology Meets Consciousness. [Preprint]

Burock, Marc (2011) Information and the function of neurons. [Preprint]

Christie, Joshua R. and Brusse, Carl and Bourrat, Pierrick and Takacs, Peter and Griffiths, Paul E. (2021) Are biological traits explained by their 'selected effect' functions? [Preprint]

Christie, Joshua R. and Wilkinson, Zachary and Gawronski, Stefan A. and Griffiths, Paul E. (2021) Concepts of function in biology and biomedicine. [Preprint]

Cirkovic, Milan M. (2018) Post-postbiological evolution? [Preprint]

Coelho Mollo, Dimitri (2019) Are There Teleological Functions to Compute? [Preprint]

Coelho Mollo, Dimitri (2021) Why go for a computation-based approach to cognitive representation. [Preprint]

Cofnas, Nathan (2017) Innateness as genetic adaptation: Lorenz redivivus (and revised). [Preprint]

Desmond, Hugh (2021) The Selectionist Rationale for Evolutionary Progress. [Preprint]

Dewhurst, Joe (2020) There Is No Such Thing As Miscomputation. [Preprint]

Dewhurst, Joe and Isaac, Alistair M. C. (2020) Mechanism Hierarchy Realism and Function Perspectivalism. [Preprint]

Dhein, Kelle (2020) What Makes Neurophysiology Meaningful? Semantic Content Ascriptions in Insect Navigation Research. [Preprint]

Donhauser, Justin (2023) Five lessons from teleology-neutrality and metaphor in ecology: Bottom-up and top-down all at once. [Preprint]

Elliott, Tyler A. and Linquist, Stefan and Gregory, T. Ryan (2014) Conceptual and empirical challenges of ascribing functions to transposable elements. [Preprint]

Esfeld, Michael (2005) The causal homogeneity of biological kinds. [Preprint]

Fresco, Nir and Artiga, Marc and Wolf, Marty J. (2024) Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation. [Preprint]

Froese, Tom (2021) To understand the origin of life we must first understand the role of normativity. [Preprint]

Froese, Tom and Karelin, Georgii and Takashi, Ikegami (2024) Making mind matter with irruption theory: Bridging end-directedness and entropy production by satisfying the participation criterion. [Preprint]

Garson, Justin (2017) Against Organizational Functions. [Preprint]

Garson, Justin (2016) A generalized selected effects theory of function. [Preprint]

Garson, Justin and Papineau, David (2019) Teleosemantics, Selection, and Novel Contents. [Preprint]

Griffiths, Paul (2005) Function, Homology and Character Individuation. [Preprint]

Griffiths, Paul E (2001) Evo-Devo Meets the Mind: Towards a Developmental Evolutionary Psychology. [Preprint]

Griffiths, Paul E (2006) Function, Homology and Character Individuation. [Preprint]

Griffiths, Paul Edmund (2005) Function, Homology and Character Individuation. [Preprint]

Griffiths, Paul Edmund (2008) In what sense does 'nothing make sense except in the light of evolution'? [Preprint]

Guttinger, Stephan and Love, Alan C. (2020) modENCODE and the elaboration of functional genomic methodology. [Preprint]

Haueis, Philipp (2018) Beyond cognitive myopia: a patchwork approach to the concept of neural function. [Preprint]

Hemmo, Meir and Shenker, Orly R. (2020) Why Functionalism Is a Form of ‘Token-Dualism’. [Preprint]

Horseman, Nelson (2024) Biological Theories in the Domain of Physiology. [Preprint]

Hueck, Christoph (2024) Conditions of Knowability of Organic Life. [Preprint]

Hueck, Christoph (2024) Empirical Vitalism – Observing an Organism’s Formative Power within an Active and Co-Constitutive Relation between Subject and Object. [Preprint]

Kneer, Markus and Marsili, Neri (2024) The truth about assertion and retraction: A review of the empirical literature. [Preprint]

Krohs, Ulrich (2021) The epistemology of biomimetics: the role of models and of morphogenetic principles. [Preprint]

Lean, Christopher (2020) Invasive Species and Natural Function in Ecology. [Preprint]

Mann, Stephen (2017) Consequences of a functional account of information. [Preprint]

Militello, Guglielmo and Moreno, Alvaro (2018) Structural and organisational for being a machine. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2019) Functions and Functioning in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and in Ecology. [Preprint]

Molter, Daniel (2016) On Mushroom Individuality. [Preprint]

Montemayor, Carlos (2021) Attention Explains the Transition to Unlimited Associative Learning Better Than Consciousness. [Preprint]

Morrow, Katie H. (2022) A Causal-Role Account of Ecological Role Functions. [Preprint]

Nave, Kathryn (2022) Boundaries and borders gone! But life goes on. [Preprint]

Nematipour, Behzad (2021) Fitness, Reproductive Success and Functions. [Preprint]

Okasha, Samir (2021) Cancer and the Levels of Selection. [Preprint]

Okasha, Samir (2022) Function in the Light of Frequency-Dependent Selection. [Preprint]

Okasha, Samir (2022) Goal Attributions in Biology: objective fact, anthropomorphic bias, or valuable heuristic? [Preprint]

Porter, Brian (2019) Teleosemantics and Tetrachromacy. [Preprint]

Pridmore, Brant (2022) Circadian clocks signal future states of affairs. [Preprint]

Ramsey, Grant and Deem, Michael (2021) Empathy and the Evolutionary Emergence of Guilt. [Preprint]

Rathkopf, Charles (2013) Localization and Intrinsic Function. [Preprint]

Rathkopf, Charles (2017) Neural Information and the Problem of Objectivity. [Preprint]

Rathkopf, Charles (2020) Neural Reuse and the Nature of Evolutionary Constraints. [Preprint]

Rathkopf, Charles (2020) Neural Reuse and the Nature of Evolutionary Constraints. [Preprint]

Rifkin, Maximiliana Jewett and Garson, Justin (2023) Sex By Design: A New Account of the Animal Sexes. [Preprint]

Roffé, Ariel Jonathan and Alleva, Karina and Ginnobili, Santiago and Barberis, Sergio Daniel (2024) The Open Texture of Functions: A Framework for Analyzing Functional Concepts in Molecular Biology. [Preprint]

Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward A (2021) The emergent genome. [Preprint]

Sims, Matthew (2021) A Continuum of Intentionality: linking biogenic and anthropogenic approaches to cognition. [Preprint]

Sims, Matthew and Kiverstein, Julian (2021) Externalized memory in slime mould and the extended (non-neuronal) mind. [Preprint]

Sterner, Beckett and Elliott, Steve and Wideman, Jeremy (2022) An account of conserved functions and how biologists use them to integrate cell and evolutionary biology. [Preprint]

Suárez, Javier (2023) What is the Nature of Stem Cells? A Unified Dispositional Framework. [Preprint]

Thompson, Evan (2022) Could All Life Be Sentient? [Preprint]

Triviño, Vanessa and Suárez, Javier (2020) Holobionts: Ecological communities, hybrids, or biological individuals? A metaphysical perspective on multispecies systems. [Preprint]

Tsou, Jonathan Y. (2021) Philosophy of Psychiatry. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2021) Agential Thinking. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2020) Biological Normativity: A New Hope for Naturalism? [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2022) Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2021) Consciousness, Complexity, and Evolution. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2023) Defending the Pathological Complexity Thesis. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2021) The Evolution of Knowledge during the Cambrian Explosion. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2020) Evolving Resolve. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2022) The Origins of Consciousness or the War of the Five Dimensions. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2022) Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2024) The Role of Consciousness in Adaptive Behavior: Précis of A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2021) Samir Okasha’s Philosophy. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter (2022) Towards a Comparative Study of Animal Consciousness. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2021) Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2022) Hominin Life History, Pathological Complexity, and the Evolution of Anxiety. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2022) Life, Mind, Agency: Why Markov Blankets Fail the Test of Evolution. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2022) On the Evolutionary Origins of the Bifocal Stance. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2022) Pathological Complexity and the Evolution of Sex Differences. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Dewhurst, Joe and Dolega, Krzysztof and Jones, Max and Stanley, Shaun and Frankish, Keith and Dennett, Daniel C. (2019) The Rationale of Rationalization. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Gascoigne, Samuel J L and Salguero-Gómez, Rob (2023) Evolution, Complexity, and Life History Theory. [Preprint]

Veit, Walter and Milan, Ney (2021) Metaphors in Arts and Science. [Preprint]

Verpooten, Jan (2024) Behavioural ecology of sexual autonomy and the case of protection against risky courtship. [Preprint]

Wolfe, Charles T. (2010) From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond, or from Stahlian animas to Canguilhemian attitudes. [Preprint]

hunean, philippe (2006) Naturalising purpose: From comparative anatomy to the ‘adventures of reason’. [Preprint]

Conference or Workshop Item

Beisbart, Claus (2009) Kant’s Characterization of Natural Ends. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Garson, Justin (2012) Broken Mechanisms: Function, Pathology, and Natural Selection. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Garson, Justin (2014) Why (a Form of) Function Indeterminacy is Still a Problem for Biomedicine, and How Seeing Functional Items as Components of Mechanisms Can Solve it. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Garson, Justin (2020) Edmond Goblot’s (1858-1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Garson, Justin (2018) There Are No Ahistorical Theories of Function. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Goldwasser, Seth (2022) Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Function to Cancer. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Greslehner, Gregor P. (2018) What do molecular biologists mean when they say 'structure determines function'? In: UNSPECIFIED.

Henriquez Garrido, Ruy J. (2015) TRADITIONS OF RESEARCH ON THE DEFINITION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Hitchen, S.A. (2014) Adapting our Language: The Problem (?) of Teleological Language in the Philosophy of Biology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Keeley, Brian L. (2012) What kinds of kind are the senses? In: UNSPECIFIED.

Kern, Matthew (2024) Functional Indeterminacy, Addiction, and the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Shenker, Orly R. (2016) A reductive physicalist account of the autonomy of psychology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Sustar, Predrag (2006) Neo-Functional Analysis: Phylogenetical Restrictions on Causal Role Functions. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Published Article or Volume

Aaby, Bendik and Ramsey, Grant (2019) Three Kinds of Niche Construction. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537

Bach, Theodore (2023) The Importance of Realism about Gender Kinds: Lessons from Beauvoir. Analyse & Kritik, 45 (2). pp. 269-295.

Bich, Leonardo (2021) Autonomous Systems and the Place of Biology Among Sciences. Perspectives for an Epistemology of Complex Systems. Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity. Essays in Honor of Eliano Pessa. pp. 41-57.

Bich, Leonardo (2024) Integrating multicelular systems: Physiological control and degrees of biological individuality. Acta Biotheoretica, 72 (1). ISSN 0001-5342

Bich, Leonardo (2024) Organisational teleology 2.0: Grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control. Ratio.

Bich, Leonardo (2019) The problem of functional boundaries in prebiotic and inter-biological systems. Minati, G., Pessa E. and Abram, M. (eds) Systemics of Incompleteness and Quasi-Systems. pp. 295-302.

Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2022) Control Mechanisms: Explaining the Integration and Versatility of Biological Organisms. Adaptive Behavior.

Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2021) Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation. Biology & Philosophy, 36 (53). ISSN 1572-8404

Bich, Leonardo and Frick, Ramiro (2018) Synthetic Modelling of Biological Communication: A Theoretical and Operational Framework for the Investigation of Minimal Life and Cognition. Complex Systems, 27 (3). pp. 267-287. ISSN 0891-2513

Bich, Leonardo and Skillings, Derek (2023) There are no intermediate stages: An organizational view on development. Organization in Biology. pp. 241-262.

Campero, María Belén and Favre, Cristián and Saborido, Cristian (2020) Dying to live. Cell death as a regulatory process. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 35 (2). pp. 197-215. ISSN 2171-679X

Chen, Bohang (2024) Two dimensions of the biological function debate. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 39 (1). pp. 109-129. ISSN 2171-679X

Colombo, Matteo (2020) Justin Garson's What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter. BJPS Review of Books.

Derakhshani, Maaneli (2023) Another thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion. Sam Harris: Critical Responses (Critical Responses, 2), edited by Sandra Woien. Publisher: Carus Books, January 10, 2023. ISBN: 9781637700242. pp. 223-234.

DiFrisco, James and Ramsey, Grant (2023) Adaptationism and Trait Individuation. Philosophy of Science, 90 (5). pp. 1234-1243.

Donhauser, Justin (2017) Differentiating and defusing theoretical Ecology's criticisms: A rejoinder to Sagoff's reply to Donhauser (2016). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 63 (Supple). 70 - 79.

Donhauser, Justin (2016) Theoretical ecology as etiological from the start. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 60. 67 - 76.

Frick, Ramiro and Bich, Leonardo and Moreno, Alvaro (2019) An organisational approach to biological communication. Acta Biotheoretica. ISSN 0001-5342

Ginnobili, Santiago (2022) Darwinian functional biology. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 37 (2). pp. 233-255. ISSN 2171-679X

González de Prado, Javier (2018) Still Unsuccessful: The Unsolved Problems of Success Semantics. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 33 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 2171-679X

Grant, Ramsey and Cristina, Villegas (2024) Developmental Channeling and Evolutionary Dappling. Philosophy of Science. pp. 1-18.

Greslehner, Gregor P. (2020) Not by structures alone: can the immune system recognize microbial functions? Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 84. p. 101336.

Holt, Louisa Jane and Holm, Sune (2017) Alvaro Moreno and Matteo Mossio. 2015. Biological autonomy: a philosophical and theoretical enquiry. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 32 (3). pp. 392-395. ISSN 2171-679X

Lemoine, Maël and Pradeu, Thomas (2018) Dissecting the Meanings of “Physiology” to Assess the Vitality of the Discipline. Physiology, 33 (4). pp. 236-245. ISSN 1548-9213

Meneganzin, Andra and Ramsey, Grant and DiFrisco, James (2024) What is a trait? Lessons from the human chin. JEZ-B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 342 (2). pp. 65-75.

Mossio, Matteo and Bich, Leonardo (2014) WHAT MAKES BIOLOGICAL ORGANISATION TELEOLOGICAL? Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Ndhlovu, Andrew and Durand, Pierre and Ramsey, Grant (2020) Programmed cell death as a black queen in microbial communities. Molecular Ecology. pp. 1-10.

Pradeu, Thomas (2016) Mutualistic viruses and the heteronomy of life. Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences. ISSN 1879-2499

Pradeu, Thomas and Kostyrka, Gladys and Dupré, John (2016) Understanding viruses: Philosophical investigations. Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences. ISSN 1879-2499

Pradeu, Thomas (2016) Organisms or biological individuals? Combining physiological and evolutionary individuality. Biology and Philosophy, 31 (6). pp. 797-817.

Pradeu, Thomas (2016) The many faces of biological individuality. Biology and Philosophy, 31 (6). pp. 761-773.

Pradeu, Thomas and Du Pasquier, Louis (2018) Immunological memory: What's in a name? Immunological Reviews, 283 (1). pp. 7-20. ISSN 01052896

Ramsey, Grant and Durand, Pierre (2019) The Nature of Programmed Cell Death. Biological Theory, 14. pp. 30-41. ISSN 1555-5550

Ratti, Emanuele and Germain, Pierre-Luc (2021) A Relic of Design: Against Proper Functions in Biology. Biology & Philosophy. ISSN 1572-8404

Räz, Tim (2017) The Silent Hexagon: Explaining Comb Structures. Synthese, 194. pp. 1703-1724. ISSN 1573-0964

Skokowski, Paul (2022) Sensing Qualia. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16 (795405). pp. 1-16.

Slutsky, David (2010) Confusion and dependence in uses of history. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Suárez, Javier (2021) The holobiont/hologenome as a level of selection: An approach to the evolution of multispecies systems. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 36 (1). pp. 81-112. ISSN 2171-679X

Triviño, Vanessa and Suárez, Javier (2020) Holobionts: Ecological communities, hybrids, or biological individuals? A metaphysical perspective on multispecies systems. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part C.

Truchetet, Marie-Elise and Pradeu, Thomas (2018) Re-thinking our understanding of immunity: Robustness in the tissue reconstruction system. Seminars in Immunology, 36. pp. 45-55. ISSN 10445323

Veit, Walter (2023) Two Kinds of Biological Normativity. Teorema, 42 (1). pp. 77-100.

Villegas, Cristina and Morales Carbonell, Felipe (2024) An epistemic argument for evolutionary dispositions. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 39 (1). pp. 89-108. ISSN 2171-679X

Winning, Jason (2020) Internal Perspectivalism: The Solution to Generality Problems About Proper Function and Natural Norms. Biology & Philosophy. ISSN 1572-8404

Witteveen, Joeri (2019) Biological markets, cooperation, and the evolution of morality. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537

van Eck, Dingmar and Gervais, Raoul (2016) Difference making, explanatory relevance, and mechanistic models. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 31 (1). pp. 125-134. ISSN 2171-679X

Open Access Book

Ramsey, Grant (2013) Human Nature. Elements in the Philosophy of Biology . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-1-108-71606-2

Other

Byron (formerly Baker), Jason M. (2005) Adaptive speciation: The role of natural selection in mechanisms of geographic and non-geographic speciation. UNSPECIFIED.