| A critical overview of biological functions J Garson Springer International Publishing, 2016 | 175 | 2016 |
| Effectiveness of environmental surrogates for the selection of conservation area networks S Sarkar, J Justus, T Fuller, C Kelley, J Garson, M Mayfield Conservation Biology 19 (3), 815-825, 2005 | 139 | 2005 |
| What biological functions are and why they matter J Garson Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 106 | 2019 |
| The functional sense of mechanism J Garson Philosophy of science 80 (3), 317-333, 2013 | 99 | 2013 |
| Place prioritization for biodiversity content S Sarkar, A Aggarwal, J Garson, CR Margules, J Zeidler Journal of Biosciences 27, 339-346, 2002 | 96 | 2002 |
| Birds as surrogates for biodiversity: an analysis of a data set from southern Quebec J Garson, A Aggarwal, S Sarkar Journal of Biosciences 27, 347-360, 2002 | 84 | 2002 |
| Place prioritization for biodiversity conservation using probabilistic surrogate distribution data S Sarkar, C Pappas, J Garson, A Aggarwal, S Cameron Diversity and Distributions 10 (2), 125-133, 2004 | 77 | 2004 |
| Selected effects and causal role functions in the brain: the case for an etiological approach to neuroscience J Garson Biology & Philosophy 26, 547-565, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| MultCSync: a software package for incorporating multiple criteria in conservation planning A Moffett, J Garson, S Sarkar Environmental Modelling & Software 20 (10), 1315-1322, 2005 | 70 | 2005 |
| Function and teleology J Garson | 67 | 2008 |
| The biological mind: A philosophical introduction J Garson Routledge, 2022 | 64 | 2022 |
| A generalized selected effects theory of function J Garson Philosophy of Science 84 (3), 523-543, 2017 | 64 | 2017 |
| Functions must be performed at appropriate rates in appropriate situations J Garson, G Piccinini The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| Place prioritization for biodiversity reserve network design: a comparison of the SITES and ResNet software packages for coverage and efficiency C Kelley, J Garson, A Aggarwal, S Sarkar Diversity and Distributions 8 (5), 297-306, 2002 | 60 | 2002 |
| The introduction of information into neurobiology J Garson Philosophy of Science 70 (5), 926-936, 2003 | 53 | 2003 |
| Function, selection, and construction in the brain J Garson Synthese 189, 451-481, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
| How to be a function pluralist J Garson The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| Multiple criterion synchronisation for conservation area network design: the use of non-dominated alternative sets S Sarkar, J Garson Conservation and Society 2 (2), 433-488, 2004 | 39 | 2004 |
| Teleosemantics, selection and novel contents J Garson, D Papineau Biology & Philosophy 34 (3), 36, 2019 | 38 | 2019 |
| There are no ahistorical theories of function J Garson Philosophy of Science 86 (5), 1146-1156, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
