Catherine Kendig

Kendig, Catherine (2024). “Naturalness in the making: classifying, operationalizing, and naturalizing naturalness in plant morphology”. Special Issue: Cognitive and Ontological Dimensions of Naturalness. Philosophia (00):1-16. DOI.10.1007/s11406-024-00751-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-024-00751-3

Kendig, Catherine (2024). “Human-managed soils and soil-managed humans: An interactive account of perspectival realism for soil management”. Special Issue: Cultures & Ontologies. Journal of Social Ontology 10(2): 80-109. https://doi.org/10.25365/jso-2024-7690

Ludwig, David, Charbel N. El-Hani, Fabio Gatti, Catherine Kendig, Matthias Kramm, Lucia Neco, Abigail Nieves Delgado, Luana Poliseli, Vítor Renck, Adriana Ressiore C., Luis Reyes Galindo, Thomas Lloyd Rickard, Gabriela De La Rosa, Julia J. Turska, Francisco Vergara-Silva and Robert A. Wilson (2024). “Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise”. Philosophy of Science (00): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.127

Kendig, Catherine, Selfa, Theresa, Thompson, Paul B., Anthony, Raymond, Bauchspies, Wenda, Blue, Gwendolyn, Das, Ashmita, Harrison, Rebecca, Henke, Chris, Jin, Shan, Kuzma, Jennifer, Lipschitz, Forbes, Richter, Kurt, Ruelle, Morgan, Silberg, Timothy, Takahashi, Bruno (2024). The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnologyJournal of Responsible Innovation 11(1). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23299460.2024.2304383

Kendig, Catherine (2023). “Finding realism in a plurality of situated scientific perspectives”. Book forum on Perspectival realism by Michela Massimi.  Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 102: 84–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.09.002

Kendig, Catherine (2023). “What philosophers can learn from agrotechnology: agricultural metaphysics, sustainable egg production standards as ontologies, and why and how canola exists”. In Samantha Noll and Zachary Piso (eds.) Paul B. Thompson’s Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food. Cham: Springer, pp. 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37484-5_8

Kendig, Catherine (2023). “Natural kinds”. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780415249126-N099-3 https://www-rep-routledge-com.proxy2.cl.msu.edu/articles/thematic/natural-kinds/v-3.

Kendig, Catherine, Theresa Selfa, and Paul B. Thompson (2022). “Biotechnology ethics for food and agriculture”. Science 376 (6599): 1279-1280. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.add1403

Kendig, Catherine (2022). “Metaphysical presumptions about species stability: problematic and unavoidable”. In John S. Wilkins, Frank E. Zachos, and Igor Ya. Pavlinov (eds.) Species Problems and Beyond: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Practice. Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Species-Problems-and-Beyond-Contemporary-Issues-in-Philosophy-and-Practice/Wilkins-Zachos-Pavlinov/p/book/9781032221472

Bursten, Julia and Catherine Kendig (2021). “Growing Knowledge: Epistemic Objects in Agricultural Extension Work”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 88: 85-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.03.002

Kendig, Catherine and Wenda K. Bauchspies (2021). “The Ethics of Speculative Anticipation and the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Hypatia 36(1): 228-236. http://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.56

Kendig, Catherine (2020). “Ontology and values anchor indigenous and grey nomenclatures: a case study in lichen naming practices among the Sámi, Sherpa, Scots, and Okanagan”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 84 (101340): 1-11.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101340

Kendig, Catherine and Joeri Witteveen (2020). “History and Philosophy of Taxonomy as an Information Science”. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42: 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00337-8

Ferkany, Matt and Catherine Kendig (2020). “Countering scientism and skepticism in teaching the nature of science through its virtues”. In Wayne Melville and Donald Kerr (eds.) Virtues as Integral to Science Education: Understanding the Intellectual, Moral, and Civic Value of Science and Scientific Inquiry. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 83-101. https://www.routledge.com/Virtues-as-Integral-to-Science-Education-Understanding-the-Intellectual/Melville-Kerr/p/book/9780367421397

Kendig, Catherine and John Grey (2019/2021). “Can the epistemic value of natural kinds be explained independently of their metaphysics?” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72 (2): 359-376. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/axz004

Kendig, Catherine and Bryan A. Bartley (2019). “Synthetic kinds: kind-making in synthetic biology.” In Julia R. S. Bursten (ed.) Perspectives on Classification in Synthetic Sciences: Unnatural Kinds. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 78-96. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315098838/chapters/10.4324/9781315098838-5

Kendig, Catherine (2018). “Considering the role marked variation plays in classifying humans: a normative approach.” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 10(13): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039257.0010.013

Kendig, Catherine (2018). “Grounding knowledge and normative valuation in agent-based action and scientific commitment”. In Hauke Riesch, Nathan Emmerich & Steven Wainwright (eds.) Philosophies and Sociologies of Bioethics: Crossing the Divides. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 41-64. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-92738-1_3

Kendig, Catherine and Eckdahl, Todd T. (2017). “Reengineering metaphysics: modularity, parthood, and evolvability in metabolic engineering”. Special issue: Ontologies of Living Beings (A.M. Ferner and Thomas Pradeu, eds.)Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 9(8): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptb.6959004.0009.008

Kendig, Catherine (ed.) (2016) Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 1-247. https://www.routledge.com/Natural-Kinds-and-Classification-in-Scientific-Practice/Kendig/p/book/9781138344839

Kendig, Catherine (2016). “Homologizing as kinding”. In Catherine Kendig (ed.) Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 106-125. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781848935402

Kendig, Catherine (2016). “Activities of kinding in scientific practice” In Catherine Kendig (ed.) Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 1-13. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781848935402

Kendig, Catherine (2016). “What is proof of concept research and how does it generate epistemic and ethical categories for future scientific practice?” Science and Engineering Ethics 22(3), 735-753.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-015-9654-0

Kendig, Catherine (2014). “Towards a Multidimensional Metaconception of Species.” Ratio 27 (2): 155–172. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rati.12037/full

Kendig, Catherine (2013). “Integrating History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences in Practice to Enhance Science Education: Swammerdam’s Historia Insectorum Generalis and the case of the water flea.” Science & Education22(8): 1939-1961. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11191-013-9596-3

Kendig, Catherine, Swindler, Joshua*, and Anderson, Austin* (2012). “Bringing History and Philosophy of Biology into the Lab.” Bioscene 38(2): 36-42. [* denotes undergraduate contributors] http://www.acube.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2012_2.pdf

Kendig, Catherine (2011). “Race as a Physiosocial Phenomenon.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 33(2): 191–222. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23335116 [Awarded Honorable Mention for the American Philosophical Association 2012 Article Prize]