Social Science

Philosophers of biology, along with biologists themselves, for the most part assume that the concept of kin is biological. To carry that assumption into the philosophy of anthropology and the study of kinship central to cultural anthropology for much of its history is to broker controversy. For the dominant view amongst cultural anthropologists rejects that assumption, maintaining instead that kinship is robustly cultural in nature, rather than biological. In this paper I critically examine an influential line of thinking behind this view of kinship, which appeals to the significance of cross-cultural diversity in what I call kinship making.

This paper offers the concept of the carceral body multiple as an intervention into the criminological construct of "criminal man." In taking a feminist ontological and critical phenomenological approaches to intake in the New York City jails, this project offers an abolitionist science and technology studies intervention into the epistemic frameworks of (bio)criminology.

This paper provides a critical evaluation of leading theory-based, evidence-based and coherentist approaches to the definition and the measurement of well-being. It then articulates a reformed division of labor for the science of well-being and argues that this reformed division of labor overcomes all the major challenges faced by theory-based approaches while circumventing all the major challenges faced by evidence-based and coherentist approaches.