My philosophy research focuses on the theoretical foundations and interrelatedness of agency, information, and the structure and organization of reality.
Publications and talks:
- Winning, J. (2021). Open-Ended Control vs. Closed-Ended Control: Limits of Mechanistic Explanation. Paper presented at the 2021 meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.
- Winning, J. (2021). Review of A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution (DeSilva, ed.). Quarterly Review of Biology, 96(4), 302–303. doi: 10.1086/717385
- Winning, J. (2020). Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-Perspectival Modal Patterns. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71(4), 1385–1409. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axy042
- Winning, J. (2020). Internal Perspectivalism: The Solution to Generality Problems about Proper Function and Natural Norms. Biology & Philosophy, 35(33), 1–22. doi: 10.1007/s10539-020-09749-z
- Winning, J. (2019). Is it Time for a Nietzschean Genealogy of Laws of Nature? (Review of Ott & Patton, Laws of Nature). Metascience, 28(2), 269–271. doi: 10.1007/s11016-019-00416-y
- Winning, J., & Bechtel, W. (2019). Being Emergence vs. Pattern Emergence: Complexity, Control, and Goal-Directedness in Biological Systems. In S. C. Gibb, R. F. Hendry, & T. Lancaster (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emergence (pp. 134–144). London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315675213-11
- Winning, J., & Bechtel, W. (2018). Rethinking Causality in Biological and Neural Mechanisms: Constraints and Control. Minds and Machines, 28(2), 287–310. doi: 10.1007/s11023-018-9458-5
- Winning, J., & Bechtel, W. (2016). Review of Biological Autonomy by Alvaro Moreno and Matteo Mossio. Philosophy of Science, 83(3), 446–452. doi: 10.1086/685747
- Winning, J., & Bechtel, W. (2016). Information-Theoretic Philosophy of Mind. In L. Floridi (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information (pp. 347–360). London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315757544.ch28