Individual Members

Richard Boyle
Carol Bromer
Institution:

Independent Consultant and team member of Sociology of the Purpose Project (University California, Davis) studying both Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose (ADF) and the Consortium for the Advancing a Science of Purpose (CASP).

Alex Bye
Erica Cartmill
Institution:

Department of Anthropology
Indiana University-Bloomington

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Methods, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Francois Cinotti
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Classification / Taxonomy, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Function and Teleology, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Physiology, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Ellen Clarke
Institution:

University of Leeds

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Hugh Desmond
Institution:

Wageningen University & Research

Project or lab website: https://hughdesmond.net
Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Philip Donoghue
Institution:

University of Bristol

Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record