Publications

Lennox, J.G. (2001b). Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origin of Life Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lennox, J.G. (2019). “Aristotle’s biology.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edited by E.N. Zalta: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/aristotle-biology/. 

Lennox, J.G. and Kampourakis, K. (2013). “Biological teleology: the need for history.” In The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators. Edited by K. Kampourakis. Springer Dordrecht.

Lennox, James G. (2003). Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals. Philosophical Quarterly 53 (213):607-609.

Lenoir, T. (1982). The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Leunissen, M. (2010). Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle’s Science of Nature. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lewens, T. (2004). Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

Li, M. Y., Callaway, F., Thompson, W. D., Adams, R. P., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Learning to Learn Functions. Cognitive Science, 47(4), e13262.

Love, A. C., & Dresow, M. (2022). Organizing Interdisciplinary Research on Purpose. BioScience, 72(4), 321–323.

Love, A.C. (2007). “Functional homology and homology of function: biological concepts and philosophical consequences.” Biology and Philosophy 22:691–708.

Magner, E. T., Roy, R., Freund Saxhaug, K., Zambre, A., Bruns, K., Snell‐Rood, E. C., Hampton, M., Hegeman, A. D., & Carter, C. J. (2023). Post‐secretory synthesis of a natural analog of iron‐gall ink in the black nectar of Melianthus spp. New Phytologist, nph.18859.

Mayr, E. (1974). "Teleological and teleonomic: a new analysis.” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14:133–159.

McLaughlin, P. (1990). Kant's Critique of Teleology in Biological Explanation. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

McLaughlin, P. (2001). What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

McShea, D.W. (2012). “Upper-directed systems: a new approach to teleology in biology.” Biology and Philosophy 27:663–688.

McShea, D.W. (2016). “Freedom and purpose in biology.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 58:64–72.

Militello, G., Bich, L., & Moreno, A. (2021). Functional Integration and Individuality in Prokaryotic Collective Organisations. Acta Biotheoretica, 69(3), 391–415.

Millikan, R.G. (1984), Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.

Moreno, A., Etxeberria, A. and Umerez, J. (2008). “The autonomy of biological individuals and artificial models.” BioSystems 91:309–319.

Mossio, M. and A. Moreno. (2015). Biological Autonomy. Springer Dordrecht.

Mossio, M., & Pontarotti, G. (n.d.). Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization.

Nagel, E. (1961). The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

Nagel, E. (1977). "Teleology revisited: goal-directed processes in biology." Journal of Philosophy 74(5):261–301.

Newman, S. A. (2022). Form, Function, Agency: Sources of Natural Purpose in Animal Evolution. In Evolution ‘on Purpose’: Teleonomy in Living Systems. EcoEvoRxiv.

Newman, S. A. (2023). Inherency and agency in the origin and evolution of biological functions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139(4), 487–502.