A Modern History Theory of Functions

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Ending the Rationality Wars: How to Make Disputes About Human Rationality Disappear (2002, unknown): “13 See, for example, Godfrey-Smith (1994), Neander (1991) and Plantinga (1993).”
Function, Homology, and Character Individuation* (2006, methodology): “These give rise to two overlaid patterns in the distribution of biological characters, one captured by phylogeny and homology, the other by selected functional classifications (Griffiths 1994, 1996a, 1996b, 1997).”
Etiological Theories of Function: A Geographical Survey (1998, background): “…theory of biological functions – which defines the function of a trait in terms of its evolutionary history – has attracted a growing number of adherents (see, e.g., Millikan 1984, 1989b; Neander 1991a, 1991b; Griffiths 1993; Godfrey-Smith 1993, 1994; Mitchell 1995; Allen & Bekoff 1995).”
Biological Organization and Cross-Generation Functions (2011, background): “In recent years, the philosophical debate on the concept of biological function has been enriched by the development of a new approach, aimed at integrating the two mainstream views – the ‘etiological’ (Wright, 1973; Millikan, 1984, 1989; Neander, 1980, 1991; Godfrey-Smith, 1994) and the ‘systemic-d”