Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

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.

• Preface Editor’s Introduction: Activities of Kinding in Scientific Practice PART I: Explaining Practices 1. Explanatory Strategies in Linguistic Practice 2. The Rising of Chemical Natural Kinds through Epistemic Iteration 3. Neuroscientific kinds through the Lens of Scientific Practice 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 5. Protein Tokens, Types, and Taxa 6. The Performative Construction of Natural Kinds: Mathematical Application as Practice 7. Homologizing as Kinding PART III: The nature of natural kinds 8. Theorizing with a Purpose: The Many Kinds of Sex 9. Memory as a cognitive kind: Brains, remembering dyads, and Exograms 10. Genuine Kinds and Scientific Reality PART IV: Shaping scientific disciplines 11. A Tale of two dilemmas: Cognitive kinds and the Extended Mind 12. Mathematical kinds? A case study in Nineteenth Century Symbolic Algebra 13. Mapping kinds in GIS and Cartography

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