Publications

Ancient and Early Modern Natural Philosophy

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

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

Lennox, J.G. (1993). “Darwin was a teleologist.” Biology & Philosophy 8, 409–421.

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.

Lennox, L.G. (2017). “William Harvey: enigmatic Aristotelian of the seventeenth century.” In Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical Approaches. Edited by J. Rocca. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Leunissen, M. (2010). Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle’s Science of Nature. New York: Cambridge University Press.

McLaughlin, P. (1990). Kant's Critique of Teleology in Biological Explanation. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

Mensch, J. (2013). Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Moss, L. & Newman, S. A. (2015). "The grassblade beyond Newton: the pragmatizing of Kant for evolutionary-developmental biology." Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.

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.

Sfara, E. (2023). From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 45(16).

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

Williams, T. A., Davín, A. A., Morel, B., Szánthó, L. L., Spang, A., Stamatakis, A., Hugenholtz, P., & Szöllősi, G. J. (2023). Parameter Estimation and Species Tree Rooting Using ALE and GeneRax. Genome Biology and Evolution, 15(7), evad134.

 

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.