| Why is a wing like a spoon? A pluralist theory of function B Preston The Journal of philosophy 95 (5), 215-254, 1998 | 300 | 1998 |
| A philosophy of material culture: Action, function, and mind B Preston Routledge, 2013 | 234 | 2013 |
| Cognition and tool use B Preston Mind & Language 13 (4), 513-547, 1998 | 145 | 1998 |
| The Functions of Thing: A philosophical perspective on material culture B Preston Matter, materiality and modern culture, 22-49, 2012 | 102 | 2012 |
| Philosophical theories of artifact function B Preston Philosophy of technology and engineering sciences, 213-233, 2009 | 92 | 2009 |
| Artifacts B Preston The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering, 209-221, 2020 | 75 | 2020 |
| Of marigold beer: a reply to Vermaas and Houkes B Preston The British journal for the philosophy of science 54 (4), 601-612, 2003 | 66 | 2003 |
| Heidegger and artificial intelligence B Preston Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1), 43-69, 1993 | 39 | 1993 |
| Merleau-Ponty and feminine embodied existence B Preston Man and World 29 (2), 167-186, 1996 | 29 | 1996 |
| Synthetic biology as red herring B Preston Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective B Preston | 17 | 2009 |
| Social context and artefact function B Preston Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (1), 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| Behaviorism and mentalism: Is there a third alternative? B Preston Synthese 100, 167-196, 1994 | 14 | 1994 |
| The case of the recalcitrant prototype B Preston Doing things with things, 15-27, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| Ethnotechnology: A manifesto B Preston Artefact kinds: Ontology and the human-made world, 145-163, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| AI, anthropocentrism, and the evolution of ‘intelligence’ B Preston Minds and Machines 1, 259-277, 1991 | 11 | 1991 |
| Husserl's non-representational theory of mind B Preston The Southern journal of philosophy 32 (2), 209, 1994 | 7 | 1994 |
| What functions explain: Functional explanation and self-reproducing systems B Preston Mind 111 (444), 888-891, 2002 | 4 | 2002 |
| The ontological argument against the mind-machine hypothesis B Preston Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the …, 1995 | 4 | 1995 |
| The birth of planning out of the spirit of improvisation: The iceberg model B Preston Philosophy of improvisation, 13-30, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
