Published Articles and Presentations

Dissertation:

Teleological Realism in Biology,  History and Philosophy of Science Program, University of Notre Dame, 2011

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Publications:

  1. “Normativity, Agency, and Life,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2012, 43: 92–103.
  2. “The Reality of Purpose and the Reform of Naturalism,” Philosophia Naturalis, 2007, 44: 32–53. 
  3. "Theses on Darwin," Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum, 2002, 95: 115–147. 
  4. "A Dynamical Model of the Meaning of Information,” BioSystems, 1996, 38: 235–241. 
  5. "Biofunctional Realism and the Problem of Teleology," Evolution and Cognition, 2000, 6: 2--34. Part 1
  6. "Biofunctional Realism and the Problem of Teleology," Evolution and Cognition, 2000, 6: 2--34. Part 2

Presentations:

  1. “The Normative Nexus and the Nature of Functional Stability,” biennial meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Brisbane, Australia, July 2009 
  2. “The Life/Body Problem,” summer seminar, Institute for the Study of Nature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June 2009  
  3. “Whispers from Aristotle: Emergentism from Physics to Biology,” summer seminar, Institute for the Study of Nature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June 2008 
  4. “Lessons from Slijper's Goat: On the Convergence of Classical and Modern Biology,” summer seminar, Institute for the Study of Nature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June 2008