Publications

Rifkin, M. J., & Garson, J. (2023). Sex by design: a new account of the animal sexes. Biology & Philosophy, 38(2), 13.

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

Rose, M.R. and Lauder, G.V. (1996). Adaptation. London: Academic Press.

Rosenblueth, A., Wiener, N. and Bigelow, J. (1943). “Behavior, purpose and teleology.” Philosophy of Science 10:18–24.

Ruse, M. (1989). “Teleology in biology: is it a cause for concern?” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 4(2): 51 - 54.

Ruse, M. (2003).Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.

Ruse, M. (2018). On Purpose. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Russell, E.S. (1945). The Directiveness of Organic Activities. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

Rytkönen, K. T., Faux, T., Mahmoudian, M., Heinosalo, T., Nnamani, M. C., Perheentupa, A., Poutanen, M., Elo, L. L., & Wagner, G. P. (2022). Histone H3K4me3 breadth in hypoxia reveals endometrial core functions and stress adaptation linked to endometriosis. IScience, 25(5), 104235.

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.

Schlosser, G. (1998). “Self-re-production and functionality: a systems-theoretical approach to teleological explanation.” Synthese 116:303–354.

Trestman, M.A. (2012). Implicit and explicit goal-directedness. Erkenntnis 77:207–236.

Walsh, D. (2008). “Teleology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Edited by M. Ruse. New York: Oxford University Press, 113–137.

Williams, G.C. (1966). Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wimsatt, W.C. (1972). “Teleology and the logical structure of function statements.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 3:1–80.

Wimsatt, W.C. (2002). “Functional organization, analogy and inference.” In Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. Edited by A. Ariew, R. Cummins and M. Perlman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wouters, A. (2004). “The function debate in philosophy.” Acta Biotheoretica 53:123–151.

Wouters, A. (2007). “Design explanation: determining the constraints on what can be alive.” Erkenntnis 67:65–80.

Wright, L. (1973). “Functions.” The Philosophical Review 82(2):139–168.

Wright, L. (1976). >Teleological Explanations: An Etiological Analysis of Goals and Functions. Berkeley: University of California 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.

Alroy, J., M. Aberhan, D.J. Bottjer, M. Foote, F.T. Fürsich, P.J. Harries, A.J.W. Hendy, S.M. Holland, L.C. Ivany, W. Kiessling, M.A. Kosnik, C.R. Marshall, A.J. McGowan, A.I. Miller, T.D. Olszewski, M.E. Patzkowsky, S.E. Peters, L. Villier, P.J. Wagner, N. Bonuso, P.S. Borkow, B. Brenneis, M.E. Clapham, L.M. Fall, C.A. Ferguson, V.L. Hanson, A.Z. Krug, K.M. Layou, E.H. Leckey, S. Nürnberg, C.M. Powers, J.A. Sessa, C. Simpson, A. Tomašových, C.C. Visaggi. (2008). “Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates.” Science 321:97–100.

Arellano-Nava, B., Halloran, P. R., Boulton, C. A., Scourse, J., Butler, P. G., Reynolds, D. J., & Lenton, T. M. (2022). Destabilisation of the Subpolar North Atlantic prior to the Little Ice Age. Nature Communications, 13(1), 5008.

Armstrong McKay, D. I., Staal, A., Abrams, J. F., Winkelmann, R., Sakschewski, B., Loriani, S., Fetzer, I., Cornell, S. E., Rockström, J., & Lenton, T. M. (2022). Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points. Science, 377(6611), eabn7950.