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References on agency

Mathilde Tahar

Ball, P.  (2023). Organisms as Agents of Evolution, John Templeton Foundation.

Barandiaran, X. E., Di Paolo, E., & Rohde, M. (2009). Defining agency: Individuality, normativity, asymmetry, and spatio-temporality in action. International Society for Adaptive Behavior, 17(5), 367-386.

Bateson, P. (2004). The active role of behaviour in evolution. Biology and Philosophy, 19, 283-298.

Brizio, A., & Tirassa, M. (2016). Biological Agency: Its Subjective Foundations and a Large-Scale Taxonomy. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.

Carter, B., & Charles, N. (2013a). Animals, Agency and Resistance. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 43(3), 322–340.

Corning, P. A. (2014). Evolution ‘on purpose’: How behaviour has shaped the evolutionary process. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112, 242-260.

Couchman, J. J. (2012). Self-agency in rhesus monkeys. Biology Letters, 8(1), 39–41.

Delafield-Butt, J. (2021). Agency and Choice in Evolution. Biosemiotics, 14(1), 79–85.

Diogo, R. (2017). Evolution driven by organismal behavior: A unifying view of life, function, form, mismatches and trends. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.

Kaneko, T., & Tomonaga, M. (2011). The perception of self-agency in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1725), 3694–3702.

Kauffman, S., & Clayton, P. (2006). On emergence, agency, and organization. Biology & Philosophy, 21(4), 501–521.

McFarland, S. E., & Hediger, R. (Eds.). (2009). Animals and agency: an interdisciplinary exploration. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.

Nadolski, E. M., & Moczek, A. P. (2023a). Promises and limits of an agency perspective in evolutionary developmental biology. Evolution & Development, 25(6), 371–392.

Newman, S. A. (2023b). Inherency and agency in the origin and evolution of biological functions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139(4), 487–502.

Okasha, S. (2018). Agents and goals in evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Read, C., & Szokolszky, A. (2024). What Animals Can Do: Agency, Mutuality, and Adaptation. Biological Theory, 19(3), 198–208.

Skewes, J. C., & Hooker, C. A. (2009). Bio-agency and the problem of action. Biology & Philosophy, 24(3), 283–300.

Špinka, M. (2019). Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare. Animal Welfare, 28(1), 11–20.

Špinka, M., & Wemelsfelder, F. (2011). Environmental challenge and animal agency. Animal welfare. Wallingford, UK: CAB International, 27-44.

Steward, H. (2009). Animal Agency. Inquiry, 52(3), 217–231.

Sueur, C., Zanaz, S., & Pelé, M. (2023). Incorporating animal agency into research design could improve behavioral and neuroscience research. Journal of Comparative Psychology,

Tomasello, M. (2022). The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Uller, T. (2023). Agency, goal-orientation and evolutionary explanations. In P. A. Corning, S. A. Kauffman, D. Noble, J. A. Shapiro, R. I. Vane-Wright, & A. Pross (Eds.). Evolution “On Purpose”: Teleonomy in Living Systems (pp. 325-339). The MIT Press.

Virenque, L., & Mossio, M. (2024). What is Agency? A View from Autonomy Theory. Biological Theory, 19(1), 11–15.

Walsh, D. M. (2015). Organisms, Agency, and Evolution. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

Watson, R. (2023). Agency, Goal-Directed Behavior, and Part-Whole Relationships in Biological Systems. Biological Theory.

Wcislo, W. T. (2021). A Dual Role for Behavior in Evolution and Shaping Organismal Selective Environments. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 52(1), 343–362.





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