Publications

Function and Teleology

Garson, J. (2016). A Critical Overview of Biological Functions. Switzerland: Springer.

Garson, J. (2022). The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction (2nd ed.). Routledge.

Garson, J. (2022). Do transposable elements have functions of their very own? Biology & Philosophy, 37(3), 20.

Godfrey-Smith, P. (1993). “Functions: consensus without unity.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 74:196–208.

Gould, S.J. and E. Vrba. (1982). “Exaptation--A Missing Term in the Science of Form.” Paleobiology 8(1):4–15.

Gould, S.J. and R.C. Lewontin. (1979). “The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Part B: Biological Sciences 205:581–598.

Hempel, C.G. (1965). “The Logic of Functional Analysis.” In Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science. New York: Free Press, 297–330.

Hill, J., Fonagy, P., Osel, T., Dziobek, I., & Sharp, C. (2023). The social domains organization of mentalizing processes in adolescents: a contribution to the conceptualization of personality function and dysfunction in young people. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, jcpp.13838.

Hill, J., Oderberg, D. S., Gibbins, J. M., & Bojak, I. (2022). Mistake-Making: A Theoretical Framework for Generating Research Questions in Biology, With Illustrative Application to Blood Clotting. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 97, 13.

Hou, J.-B., Hughes, N. C., Hopkins, M. J., & Shu, D. (2023). Gill function in an early arthropod and the widespread adoption of the countercurrent exchange mechanism. Royal Society Open Science, 10(8), 230341.

Hughes, M. P., Kruchek, E. J., Gibbins, J. M., Griffiths, O. V., Abdal, B., & Labeed, F. H. (2022). The Platelet Electrome: Evidence for a Role in Regulation of Function and Surface Interaction. Bioelectricity, 4(3), 153–159.

Hund, A. K., Stretch, E., Smirnoff, D., Roehrig, G. H., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2023). Broadening the Taxonomic Breadth of Organisms in the Bio-Inspired Design Process. Biomimetics, 8(1), 48.

Johnson, M.R. (2005). Aristotle on Teleology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jonas, H. (1966). The Phenomenon of Life: Towards a Philosophical Biology. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers Inc.

Kaiser, M. (2018). “ENCODE and the parts of the human genome.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 72:28–37.

Kant, I. (1952) [1790]. Critique of Judgement. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Keegan, G., & Patten, M. M. (2022). Selfish evolution of placental hormones. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 10(1), 391–397.

Lennox, J.G. (1992) “Teleology.” In Keywords in Evolutionary Biology. Edited by E.F. Keller and E.A. Lloyd. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 324–333.

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.