Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in Agriculture

Catherine Kendig is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Her research explores the normative and metaphysical commitments that underpin and inform diverse classification systems including those used in synthetic biology; ethnobiology; and agriculture. She is editor of the collection of interdisciplinary essays Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice (2016 Routledge) which explores the role of kind-making or ‘kinding’ in the work of scientists. She serves as Associate Editor of the journal History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Co-Editor of the series “History of Philosophy and Science” (De Gruyter). Kendig earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Exeter, ESRC Center for Genomics in Society and her MSc in Philosophy and History of Science from King’s College London. Before joining Michigan State University, she was Lecturer/Teaching Fellow in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Missouri Western State University. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture.