Publications

Agency and Autonomy

Gambarotto, A., & Mossio, M. (2022). Enactivism and the Hegelian Stance on Intrinsic Purposiveness. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Gambarotto, A., & Nahas, A. (2023). Nature and Agency: Towards a Post-Kantian Naturalism. Topoi.

Ganti, T. (2003). The Principles of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Godfrey-Smith, P. (2012). “Darwinian individuals.” In From Groups to Individuals: New Perspectives on Biological Associations and Emerging Individuality.” Edited by F. Bouchard and P. Huneman. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.

Godfrey-Smith, P., Scheel, D., Chancellor, S., Linquist, S., & Lawrence, M. (2022). In the line of fire: Debris throwing by wild octopuses. PLOS ONE, 17(11), e0276482.

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.

Kauffman, S. (2003). “Molecular autonomous agents.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part A 361:1089–1099.

Kauffman, S., Logan, R.K., Este, R., Goebel, R., Hobill, D. and Shmulevich, I. (2008). “Propagating organization: an enquiry.” Biology & Philosophy 23:27–45.

Laland, K.N., J. Odling-Smee, and S.F. Gilbert. (2008). “EvoDevo and Niche Construction: Building Bridges.” Journal of Experimental Zoology 310B:549–566.

Lean, C. H. (2022). Authenticity and Autonomy in De-Extinction. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 25(2), 116–120.

Love, A. C. (2023). Reflections on the Study of Biological Agency and its Evolution. Spontaneous Generations, 11(1).

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

Lyon, P. (2006). “The biogenic approach to cognition.” Cognitive Processes 7:11–29.

Maturana, H. and Varela, F. (1972). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42.

Maynard Smith. J. and Szathmary, E. (1995). The Major Transitions in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Michod, R.E. (2007). “Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 104(suppl 1):8613–8618.

Michod, R.E. and Roze, D. (2001). “Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of multicellularity.” Heredity 86:1–7.

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

Moin Afshar, N., Cinotti, F., Martin, D. A., Khamassi, M., Calu, D. J., Taylor, J. R., & Groman, S. M. (2022). Reward-mediated, model-free reinforcement-learning mechanisms in Pavlovian and instrumental tasks are related. The Journal of Neuroscience, JN-RM-1113-22.

Moreno, A. (2007). “A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization.” In Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations. Edited by F.C. Boogerd, F.J. Bruggeman, J.S. Hofmeyr and H.V. Westerhoff. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Moreno, A. (2023). Some Reflections on the Evolution of Conscious Agents: The Relevance of body Plans. Biosemiotics.

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

Nanjundiah, V., Geeta, R., & Suslov, V. V. (2022). Revisiting N.I. Vavilov’s “The Law of Homologous Series in Variation” (1922). Biological Theory, s13752-022-00403–3.

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.

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.