Anthologies

• Allen, Colin, Marc Bekoff, and George V. Lauder (eds.), 1998, Nature’s Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Ariew, André, Robert Cummins, and Mark Perlman (eds.), 2002, Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Buller, David J. (ed.), 1999, Function, Selection, and Design (SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology), Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Huneman, Philippe (ed.), 2013, Functions: Selection and Mechanisms, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5304-4 (Scholar)

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