Publications

Ancient and Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Oderberg, D. S. (2021). Restoring the Hierarchy of Being. In W. M. R. Simpson, R. C. Koons, & J. Orr, Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (1st ed., pp. 94–124). Routledge.

Richards, R.J. (2000). "Kant and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb: a historical misunderstanding." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 31:11-32.

Rocca, J. (ed.) (2017). Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical Approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Schiefsky, M.J. (2007). Galen's teleology and functional explanation. In Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 33, ed. D. Sedley, 369–400. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Smith, J.E.H. (2011). Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Smith, J.E.H., ed. (2006). The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Zammito, J. (2006). “Teleology then and now: The question of Kant’s relevance for contemporary controversies over function in biology.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37(4):748–770.

Zammito, J. (2018). The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Causation in Development and Evolution

Bourrat, P. (2022). Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 91, 201–210.

Ågren, J. A. (2023). Pluralism and Progress in Evolutionary Biology: A Commentary on Distin. 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. (2023). Why We Disagree About Selfish Genes: A Reply to Welch. In T. E. Dickins & B. J. A. Dickins (Eds.), Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory (Vol. 6, pp. 581–583). Springer International Publishing.

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.

Aguadé-Gorgorió, G., Arnoldi, J.-F., Barbier, M., & Kéfi, S. (2023). A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities [Preprint]. Ecology.

Ardré, M., Doulcier, G., Brenner, N., & Rainey, P. B. (2022). A leader cell triggers end of lag phase in populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens. MicroLife, 3, uqac022.

Arora, G., Banerjee, M., Langthasa, J., Bhat, R., & Chatterjee, S. (2023). Targeting metabolic fluxes reverts metastatic transitions in ovarian cancer. IScience, 26(11), 108081.

Austin, C. (2021). Form, Cause, and Explanation in Biology: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective. In Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation (1st ed.). Routledge.

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

Bich, L. and Skillings, D. (2022). There are no intermediate stages: An organizational view of development. In M. Mossio (Ed.). Organization in Biology. New York: Springer.

Bolnick, D. I., Hund, A. K., Nosil, P., Peng, F., Ravinet, M., Stankowski, S., Subramanian, S., Wolf, J. B. W., & Yukilevich, R. (2023). A multivariate view of the speciation continuum. 77(1).

Bolotin, E., Melamed, D., & Livnat, A. (2021). Genes used together are more likely to be fused together in evolution by mutational mechanisms: A bioinformatic test of the used-fused hypothesis [Preprint]. Evolutionary Biology.

Bolotin, E., Melamed, D., & Livnat, A. (2022). Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis. Evolutionary Biology.

Bourrat, P. (2022). A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection. Biological Theory.

Bourrat, P. (2023). A Pricean Formalization of Gaia. Philosophy of Science, 1–34.

Bourrat, P. (2023). When local causes are more explanatorily useful. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e185. Cambridge Core.

Bourrat, P., & Charbonneau, M. (2022). Grains of Description in Biological and Cultural Transmission. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22(3–4), 185–202.