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Hello, and welcome to New Books and Philosophy, a podcast channel with the New Books Network.
I'm Carrie Figdor, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.
I'm co-host of the channel, along with Sarah Tyson and Lane Neufeld.
Together, we bring you conversations with philosophers about their new books in a wide range of areas of contemporary philosophical inquiry.
Today's interview is with Robert Wilson, professor of philosophy at the University of Western Australia.
His new book, Kin Matters, Relational Beings in the Fragile Sciences, is just out from Oxford University Press.
What is kinship?
This central question in cultural anthropology is standardly answered in terms of culturally constructed relationships that are unconstrained by biological relationships.
In Kin Matters, Wilson proposes an alternative view that does not separate kin relations from biological facts about reproduction that are universally known, such as the fact that human females are pregnant before they give birth.
On the progenitor view, kinship is the cultural elaboration of reproductive relations, which act as constraints on kin relations.
Wilson also analyzes incest avoidance or incest taboos from this perspective and draws on clinical findings, primatology, and philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology to develop his biologically based yet non-reductive and culturally variable view of kinship.
Let's turn to the interview.
Hi, Rob Wilson.
Welcome to New Books on Philosophy.
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me.
So I'm really looking forward to talking about kin matters, relational beings in the fragile sciences.
Before we get to the book itself, maybe you could say a bit about yourself, how you came to philosophy and your interests and then how this book came about.
Yeah, well, I mean, you do.
It's clear in the book.
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