General Philosophy of Science

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (2024). “Research Environments vis-à-vis Biological Environments: Ontological Parallels, Epistemic Parallax, and Metaphilosophical Parallelization.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 14, 46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-024-00603-7

Philosophy of Biology

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Ramsey G. (2024). “Driftability and Niche Construction.” Synthese, 204, 162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04815-5

Fábregas-Tejeda A*, Martín-Villuendas M*. (2023). “What is the Philosophy of Organismal Biology?” ArtefaCToS: Revista de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 12(1), 5–25. https://doi.org/10.14201/art2023121525 *Equal first authorship.

Baedke J*, Fábregas-Tejeda A*, Prieto GI*. (2021). “Unknotting Reciprocal Causation Between Organism and Environment.”  Biology & Philosophy, 36, 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09815-0  *Equal first authorship.

Baedke J, Fábregas-Tejeda A, Vergara-Silva F. (2020). “Does the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis entail extended explanatory power?” Biology & Philosophy, 35, 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-020-9736-5

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Vergara-Silva F. (2018a). “Hierarchy Theory of Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Some Epistemic Bridges, Some Conceptual Rifts.” Evolutionary Biology, 45, 127–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-017-9438-3

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Vergara-Silva F. (2018b). “The Emerging Structure of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Where Does Evo-Devo Fit In?” Theory in Biosciences, 137(2), 169–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-018-0269-2

History of Biology

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Vergara-Silva F. (2022). “‘Man-Made Futures’: Conrad Hal Waddington, Biological Theory, and the Anthropocene.” Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age, 19(1), 35-56. https://www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/5329202

Prieto GI*, Fábregas-Tejeda A*. (2022). “Richard Lewontin y la reciprocidad organismo-ambiente en la historia de la biología [Richard Lewontin and Organism-Environment Reciprocity in the History of Biology].” Ludus Vitalis, 29(56), 31-38. https://iace.uv.cl/index.php/ludusvitalis/article/view/3849 *Equal first authorship.

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Nieves Delgado A, Baedke, J. (2021). “Revisiting Hans Böker’s ‘Species Transformation Through Reconstruction: Reconstruction Through Active Reaction of Organisms’ (1935).” Biological Theory, 16, 63–75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-020-00370-7

Baedke J, Fábregas-Tejeda A, Nieves-Delgado A. (2020). “The Holobiont Concept Before Margulis.” Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 334, 149– 155. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.22931

Interdisciplinary Collaborations with Scientists

Catania F, Baedke, J, Fábregas-Tejeda A, Nieves Delgado A, Vitali V, & Nguyen Long L. (2021). “Global Climate Change, Diet and the Complex Relationship Between Human Host and Microbiome: Towards an Integrated Picture”. BioEssays, 43, e2100049. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202100049

Book Chapters

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (2024). “Charting Contrasting Stances on Organismal Purposiveness and Agency in Early Twentieth-Century Biology.” In: Fábregas-Tejeda A, Baedke J, Prieto GI, Radick G (eds). The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections (pp. 41–60). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003413318-4/charting-contrasting-stances-organismal-purposiveness-agency-early-twentieth-century-biology-alejandro-f%C3%A1bregas-tejeda

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Baedke J, Prieto GI, Radick G. (2024). “Organismal Agency: A Persistent Riddle in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.” In: Fábregas-Tejeda A, Baedke J, Prieto GI, Radick G (eds). The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections (pp. 1–20). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003413318-1/organismal-agency-alejandro-f%C3%A1bregas-tejeda-jan-baedke-guido-prieto-gregory-radick?context=ubx&refId=1af1aa92-ae7b-422d-a1e0-2720537be705

Baedke J, Fábregas-Tejeda A. (2023). “The Organism in Evolutionary Explanation: From Early 20th Century to the Extended Synthesis.” In: Dickins T, Dickins B (eds). Evolutionary Biology - Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory (pp. 121–150). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_8

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Baedke J. (2023). “Organisms and the Causes and Consequences of Selection: A Reply to Vidya et al.” In: Dickins T, Dickins B (eds). Evolutionary Biology - Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory (pp. 159–169). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_10

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Baedke J. (2023). “Teleology, Organisms, and Genes: A Commentary on Haig.” In: Dickins T, Dickins B (eds). Evolutionary Biology-Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory (pp. 249–264). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_15

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (2022). “Síntesis Extendida” [Extended Synthesis]. In: Martínez M, Galindo J (eds). Diccionario de biología evolutiva para las ciencias sociales y las humanidades [Dictionary of Evolutionary Biology for Social Sciences and Humanities] (pp. 538–545). Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Suárez-Díaz E. (2022). “Explicación en biología” [Explanation in Biology]. In: Martínez M, Galindo J (eds). Diccionario de biología evolutiva para las ciencias sociales y las humanidades [Dictionary of Evolutionary Biology for the Social Sciences and Humanities] (pp. 235–243). Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (2021). “Dos debates en torno a la extensión de la ontología de la Síntesis Moderna: trazando puentes dialógicos en el evolucionismo contemporáneo con la teoría de construcción de nicho” [Two Debates regarding the Ontological Extension of the Modern Synthesis: Building Dialogical Bridges in Contemporary Evolutionism with Niche Construction Theory]. In: Barahona A, Casanueva M, Vergara-Silva F (eds). Biofilosofías para el Antropoceno: la teoría de construcción de nicho desde la filosofía de la biología y la bioética [Biophilosophies for the Anthropocene: Niche Construction Theory from the Standpoints of Philosophy of Biology and Bioethics], pp. 29-68. Heúresis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Escalante-Alcalde D. (2017). “Técnicas de manipulación genética en el ratón: implicaciones para el estudio funcional de células troncales [Genetic Manipulation Techniques in Mice: Implications for the Functional Study of Stem Cells]”. In: Chávez-González M.A, Chimal- Monroy J, Flores-Figueroa E, Lamas M (eds). Células Troncales: biología y aplicaciones en biomedicina. Tomo 1 [Stem Cells: Biology and Biomedical Applications. Volume 1] (pp. 289-321). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.

Book Reviews & Miscellaneous Articles

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (2023). “Give in to Our Beastly Nature, or How the ‘Pop Science’ of What Makes Us Human Rose to Prominence.” H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56881  

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (2019). “New Perspectives on Theory Change in Evolutionary Biology.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 50(4), 573–581. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-019-09466-6

Manuscripts Under Review

(Please note that titles are omitted so as not to compromise peer review.)

Paper on organism-environment boundaries (revise & resubmit).

Paper on challenges for trait individuation theories (under review).

Paper on the evolutionary agenda of basal cognition research (under review, co-authored).

Work   in Progress

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (in preparation). “Organicism Within and Beyond the Bounds of Biology.” (Commissioned by Acta Biotheoretica)

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (in preparation). “The Pulses of Organismal Normativity: A Metaphilosophical Bird’s-Eye View.”

Fábregas-Tejeda A. (in preparation). “Closeness, Loans, and Frictions between (Philosophy of) Biology and (Philosophy of) History, 1967-1972.”

Ávila-Cascajares FS, Battaglia D, Branchi I, Bugnyar T, Chirimuuta M, Deco G, Fábregas-Tejeda A, Konsman JP, Kunze M, & Sarto-Jackson I. (in preparation). “Neuroscience Meets Philosophy – Interdisciplinary Exchange in the Context of the FENS-Forum 2024 in Vienna.”

Prieto GI, Fábregas-Tejeda A. (in preparation). “Representing with Model Organisms.”