1st Edition
Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice
Preface John Dupré Editor’s Introduction: Activities of Kinding in Scientific Practice Catherine Kendig PART I: Explaining Practices 1. Explanatory Strategies in Linguistic Practice Bernhard Nickel 2. The Rising of Chemical Natural Kinds through Epistemic Iteration Hasok Chang 3. Neuroscientific kinds through the Lens of Scientific Practice Jackie Sullivan PART II: Kinding and Classification 4. From a Zooming-in model to a Co-creation model: Towards a more Dynamic account of Classification and Kinds Thomas A. C. Reydon 5. Protein Tokens, Types, and Taxa Joyce C. Havstad 6. The Performative Construction of Natural Kinds: Mathematical Application as Practice Jordi Cat 7. Homologizing as Kinding Catherine Kendig PART III: The nature of natural kinds 8. Theorizing with a Purpose: The Many Kinds of Sex Sally Haslanger 9. Memory as a cognitive kind: Brains, remembering dyads, and Exograms Samuli Pöyhönen 10. Genuine Kinds and Scientific Reality Quayshawn Spencer PART IV: Shaping scientific disciplines 11. A Tale of two dilemmas: Cognitive kinds and the Extended Mind Michael Wheeler 12. Mathematical kinds? A case study in Nineteenth Century Symbolic Algebra Josipa Petrunic 13. Mapping kinds in GIS and Cartography Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Biography
Catherine Kendig is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Missouri Western State University. She completed her PhD at the University of Exeter/ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) and her MSc in Philosophy and History of Science at King’s College London. Kendig has research interests in philosophy of scientific classification, natural kinds, philosophy of science in practice, synthetic biology, ethics of new and emerging technologies, and philosophy of race. Her work on these topics is published in Ratio, Science and Engineering Ethics, Science & Education, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, and International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
