Selected Publications

Kendig, Catherine and Paul Thompson (2025). The Social Epistemology of Engineered Agricultural Ecologies. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-04450-1 

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 biotechnology Journal of Responsible Innovation 11(1). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23299460.2024.2304383 

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, pp. 293-314. 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 John Grey (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 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 

Thompson, P. B. “Ethics in the Innovation Process: Some Unaddressed Issues for Pragmatists,” Contemporary Pragmatism (2023) Online First: doi:10.1163/18758185-bja10062

Thompson, P. B. “Food Systems in the Anthropocene: Some Philosophical Reflections,” in Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Contested Knowledge and the Need for Change, A. M. Loconto and D. H. Constance, eds. London: 2024, Sage, pp. 37-43.

Thompson, P. B. “Further Thoughts on Food Futures,” in Paul B. Thompson’s Philosophy of Agriculture, S.Noll and Z. Piso, eds. Cham, CH: 2023, Springer, pp. 185-206.

Thompson, P. B. “What Is Agricultural Ethics, and Why Does It Matter?” in Key Issues in Agricultural Ethics, R.L. Zimdahl, ed. Cambridge, UK: 2023, Burleigh-Dodds Publishing, pp. 3-20.

Thompson, P. B. “How We Got to Now: Why the U.S. and Europe Went Different Ways on GMOs,” in The Conversation on Biotechnology, M. Zimmer, ed. Baltimore, MD: 2023, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 76-85.

Thompson, P.B. “Pollution as a moral problem,” Chapter 6 in From Silo to Spoon: Local and Global Food Ethics New York: 2024, Oxford U. Press, pp. 128-155.

Thompson, P. B. “Sustainable food systems,” Chapter 7 in From Silo to Spoon: Local and Global Food Ethics, New York: 2024, Oxford University Press, pp. 156-179.

Thompson, P.B. “Food ethics and race,” Chapter 9 in From Silo to Spoon: Local and Global Food Ethics, New York: 2024, Oxford University Press, pp. 208-238.

Yilmaz Silverman, Özlem (2025). "Pratik Odaklı Bütünleştirilmiş Bilim Tarihi ve Felsefesi Yoluyla Kavramsal Analiz", in Caglar Karaca (Ed.) Biyoloji Felsefesi. Doruk Yayınları, Istanbul.

Yilmaz, Özlem (2024). “Environmental complexity, cognition, and plant stress physiology” Adaptive Behavior, 10597123241278799. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10597123241278799

Yilmaz Silverman, Özlem (2024). Bitki Biyolojisinin Felsefe Eğitimine Katkıları. MetaZihin: Yapay Zeka ve Zihin Felsefesi Dergisi, 7(1), 25-41. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/metazihin/article/1435463

Yilmaz, Özlem and John Dupré (2025). “Plant Individuality: A Physiological Approach” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 17 (1):2   https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/article/id/5261/