This bibliography gathers publications over many years from a variety of researchers exploring topics of agency, directionality, and function (among others) with a special emphasis on CASP members. It began with work from teams within the initial Agency, Directionality and Function project and continues to be populated with papers and articles from diverse researchers looking to further develop and expand ways of working interdisciplinarily on the complex theme of teleology.
Included in the bibliography are entries for publications and books that many scholars involved in the Agency, Directionality and Function project recommended as foundational texts in their field of study. We welcome suggestions for additions to the bibliography from CASP members.
History of Life and the Fossil Record
Rudwick, M.J.S. (2008). Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sabroux, R., Edgecombe, G. D., Pisani, D., & Garwood, R. J. (2023). New insights into the sea spider fauna (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône, France (Jurassic, Callovian). Papers in Palaeontology, 9(4), e1515.
Sepkoski Jr., J.J., Bambach, R.K., Raup, D.M. and Valentine, J.W. (1981). “Phanerozoic marine diversity and the fossil record.” Nature 291:435–437.
Sepkoski, D. (2012). Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sheridan, P. O., Meng, Y., Williams, T. A., & Gubry-Rangin, C. (2022). Recovery of Lutacidiplasmatales archaeal order genomes suggests convergent evolution in Thermoplasmatota. Nature Communications, 13(1), 4110.
Simpson, G.G. (1944). Tempo and Mode in Evolution. New York: Columbia University Press.
Smith, T. J., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Vargas‐Parra, E. E., & Hopkins, M. J. (2022). Modularity in the trilobite head consistent with the hypothesized segmental origin of the eyes. Evolution & Development, ede.12418.
Vole, K.L., H.H. Øistein, L.H. Liow, and N.C. Stenseth (2015). “The role of biotic forces in driving macroevolution: beyond the Red Queen.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Part B: Biological Sciences 282:20150186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0186.
Wei, W., Chen, X., Ling, H.-F., Wu, F., Dong, L.-H., Pan, S., Jing, Z., & Huang, F. (2023). Vanadium isotope evidence for widespread marine oxygenation from the late Ediacaran to early Cambrian. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602, 117942.
Williams, B. A. P., Williams, T. A., & Trew, J. (2022). Comparative Genomics of Microsporidia. In L. M. Weiss & A. W. Reinke (Eds.), Microsporidia (Vol. 114, pp. 43–69). Springer International Publishing.
Wu, R., Pisani, D., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2023). The unbearable uncertainty of panarthropod relationships. Biology Letters, 19(1), 20220497.
Yasuhara, M., Hunt, G., & Jordan, R. W. (2022). Macroecology, macroevolution, and paleoecology of Ostracoda. Marine Micropaleontology, 174, 102132.
Yuan, L., Zhou, Y., Chen, X., Zhu, M., Poulton, S. W., Tian, Z., Li, D., Thirlwall, M., & Shields, G. A. (2023). Multiple ocean oxygenation events during the Ediacaran Period: Mo isotope evidence from the Nanhua Basin, South China. Precambrian Research, 388, 107004.
Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism
Allen, G.E. (2005). “Mechanism, vitalism and organicism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century biology: the importance of historical context.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36(2):261–283.
Amundson, R. and G.V. Lauder (1994). "Function without purpose: the uses of causal role function in evolutionary biology." Biology and Philosophy 9(4): 443–470.
Beckner, M. (1968).The Biological Way of Thought. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press.
Berryman, S. (2009). The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
Bertalanffy, L. (1952). Problems of Life: An Evaluation of Modern Biological Thought. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bowler, P.J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth Century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Breitenbach, A. (2006). “Mechanical explanation of nature and its limits in Kant’s Critique of judgment.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 37(4): 694–711.
Churchill, F.B. (1969). “From machine-theory to entelechy: two studies in developmental teleology.” Journal of the History of Biology 2:165–185.
Craver, C.F. (2013). “Functions and mechanisms: a perspectivalist view.” In Functions: selection and mechanisms. Edited by P. Huneman. Spring Dordrecht, 133–158.
Des Chene, D. (2001). Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes. New York: Cornell University.
Drack, M. (2009). “Ludwig Bertalanffy’s early system approach.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science: https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.992.