ARC-Discovery Project "Keeping Kinship in Mind"

Keeping Kinship in Mind aims to contribute to the study of kinship by articulating a progenerative view of kinship that addresses the long-standing wariness that cultural anthropologists have expressed about that view. The important gap in knowledge that the project addresses lies in the philosophy of anthropology and the social sciences more generally and concerns our understanding of kinship and its study. By adopting a novel approach to a range of live issues in the contemporary study of kinship centred around progenerativism about kinship it will advance knowledge in the social sciences. And by building an international network in the philosophy of anthropology through various collaborations, the project will shape a currently developing space in the philosophy of science and place Australian researchers at the centre of that space.