Jes Lynning Harfeld
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Associate professor of applied philosophy - animal and environmental philosophy
#Aalborg
University
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There is something that you never really learn until you are pretty deep in the guts of the academic machine. The things you love, that you go into academia puruse, end up being replaced by various administrative tasks and ongoing attempts to keep the ship afloat...
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New Yearâs Resolution đ I will finish my first article on Frederik Christian Eilschov (1725â1750) and his fabulously titled book: âPhilosophical Letters â On Various Useful and Important Matters.â He argues against eating meat, while still supporting hunting as a form of just war.
#animalphilosophy
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My son (11yo) likes to be given LEGO tasks. Yesterday, I told him to 'make me a philosopher in the style of The School of Athens for my office at the university.' I love how he even captured some Diogenes-like too-cool-for-school. And of course a couple of really excellent NPUs going on.
#philosophy
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Dr Heather Browning (Veit)
21 days ago
We have a new book review out, taking an interdisciplinary perspective on Martha Nussbaum's 'Justice for Animals' Coauthored with Lisa Dickel,
@suzannetruong.bsky.social
,
@harfeld.bsky.social
& Anna Rademann Read here:
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Great talk yesterday on perspectival flexibility as a virtue by
@pasliwa.bsky.social
from
@univie.ac.at
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@au.dk
and I had brought along some of my students from
@aau.dk
who said the talk was "difficult but interesting". I agree đ
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Grumpy Philosopher
5 months ago
My paper âAnimal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonderâ
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
has just been published at
@the-joap.bsky.social
In it, I argue for fostering a sense of wonder at individual nonhuman animals, & for making this the basis of a reverence-based respect.
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/japp.70040
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Dr Beth Ventura
5 months ago
The GOAT
@goatswhostare.bsky.social
sharing some inspiring and fascinating insights on how to more cleverly understand the clever inner lives of livestock in opening this morningâs
@applied-ethology.bsky.social
#ISAE2025
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I've been interviewed about public philosophy by Mara-Daria Cojocaru for the 'Philosophy Going Wild!'-project
open.substack.com/pub/thedryno...
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âHow could this be real philosophy?â
Interview with Jes Lynning Harfeld
https://open.substack.com/pub/thedrynosedprimate/p/how-could-this-be-real-philosophy?r=5gh93t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
5 months ago
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Always fun to be a bit out of my depth academically. This time talking about hunting in the nexus between philosophy and Danish literature at 'NordsprÄk' summer course in front of Nordic language teachers. Tak til
@lottepraetorius.bsky.social
for invitation og foto.
nordspraak.com/2024/12/19/s...
5 months ago
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I samarbejde med Folkeuniversitetet i Aalborg afholder jeg 2x
#Filosofaen
her i efterÄret. Det er godt, skÞnt og fyldt med mulige sandheder at vÊre med til filosofiske samtaler. SÄ kig forbi Café Ordgeist til oktober.
www.linkedin.com/posts/folkeu...
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Her er det nye program đ„ł | Folkeuniversitetet i Aalborg
Her er det nye program đ„ł I slutningen af juli lander det i postkasserne, men du behĂžver ikke vente sĂ„ lĂŠnge, for allerede nu kan du kigge i den online version her: http://bit.ly/4nlxAPU Til efterĂ„r...
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6 months ago
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Jonathan Birch
7 months ago
There's a common pattern where the early works in a new format are stunning, then it slows down, and people say "oh they got the low hanging fruit" - but I think that's a bad metaphor. It's more that magic happens when people are free to innovate format and content at the same time...
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Sabrina Brando and I wrote an article 10 y ago about the lack of animal welfare friendly food in zoos. Recently, I was at Aalborg Zoo and was a bit disheartened by the lack of progress there. So, I wrote an opinion piece for the local paper (sorry, in Danish).
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
7 months ago
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Grumpy Philosopher
7 months ago
This is the most perfect description of Jordan Peterson Iâve ever read.
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Pop by Aarhus University on Saturday the 14th of June for our seminar on human-animal studies. Hear examples of what it (might) be, and where it (might) be heading :-)
#animalphilosophy
#andmuchmore
www.linkedin.com/events/human...
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Human-Animal Studies â Now and in the Future | LinkedIn
Minding Animals Danmark er nu klar med vores fÞrste event, som forhÄbentlig bliver startskuddet til mange flere. Vi har inviteret en rÊkke spÊndende talere, som vil fortÊlle om deres forskning i forh...
https://www.linkedin.com/events/human-animalstudies-nowandinthe7330230408082558976/
7 months ago
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Congrats to Thomas Kainberger - and thanks for letting me collaborate on this little project. Great working on moral epistemology in animal philosophy again and learning from the young-and-upcoming :-) (in collaboration w. Herwig Grimm)
#animalethics
#murdoch
#shame
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Attending with Shame to the Animal Crisis: On the Contributions of Murdoch and Deleuze to a Politics of Sight - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
In Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory (2022), Alice Crary and Lori Gruen diagnose a crisis in humanâanimal relations, emphasizing its political nature and critiquing the limited scope of orthodox an...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-025-09949-1?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250418&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs10806-025-09949-1
8 months ago
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Every year the same duck uses our little pond area in the atrium at
@aau.dk
as a nesting ground. And every year she's stuck there with her little bunch of ducklings. The kind people from AAU Facility Service must then gently guide them through the building and out on the other side.
#mixedcommunity
8 months ago
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Great department and great people. 5* Would recommand :-)
anivet.au.dk/om-institutt...
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Postdoctoral researcher position at the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University - Ledig stilling pÄ Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Husdyr- og VeterinĂŠrvidenskab - ANIVET Management og Modellering (MAMO), Aarhus Universitet
https://anivet.au.dk/om-instituttet/ledige-stillinger/job/postdoctoral-researcher-position-at-the-department-of-animal-and-veterinary-sciences-aarhus-university
9 months ago
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Michael Bang Petersen
9 months ago
US researchers, help me out: More and more of my European colleagues are in the proces of cancelling visits to your institutions. For reasons of both politics and safety. What is your sense? How do Europe best support you?
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LSE Philosophy
9 months ago
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will open a new research centre to study animal sentience in autumn 2025! The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience will be lead by
#LSEPhilosophy
Professor Jonathan Birch
@birchlse.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...
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New centre to study animal sentience opens at LSE
LSE is launching its new research centre in autumn 2025. The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is made possible by the Jeremy Coller Foundation. LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch willâŠ
https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2025/03/25/new-centre-to-study-animal-sentience-opens-at-lse/
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There are few greater joys in teaching than old students returning and presenting their research to our current students here at Applied Philosophy, Aalborg University
@aau.dk
. Thanks to Mads Hansen, postdoc. at
@bristoluni.bsky.social
, for introducing us to the contemporary debate on teleology.
9 months ago
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PĂ„ mandag gĂŠster filosof og kropsligt vĂŠsen, Jacob Aremark, Filosofaen til en samtale om filosofiens forhold til kroppen og kroppens forhold til filosofien. Det er noget med en hammer - men uden Nietzsche. Og der er tapas og vin. Vi ses!
#kropsfilosofi
#anvendtfilosofi
fuaalborg.dk/aalborg/prog...
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Filosofaen: kroppen i filosofien - filosofien i kroppen
Filosofaen er et âTalk Showâ, hvor en lektor i filosofi taler i
https://fuaalborg.dk/aalborg/program/filosofi-og-religion/filosofaen-kroppen-i-filosofien-filosofien-i-kroppen-2511-228
10 months ago
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Jeff Sebo
10 months ago
The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is thrilled to be hosting an online panel with Heather Browning and Oscar Horta on March 19 at 12pm ET! This event will settle once and for all the question whether wild animal welfare is net positive or negative. RSVP below :)
sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wild...
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Events
Spring 2025
https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wildanimalwelfare/events?authuser=0
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Peter Adamson
11 months ago
The time has come! We finally start coverage of early modern philosophy (17-18th centuries) on the
#HoPWaG
podcast, beginning with an episode on the concept of "Enlightenment."
www.historyofphilosophy.net/introduction...
#philsky
#earlymodern
#podcasts
#enlightenment
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I have had the happy opportunity to be part of some meaningful conceptual engineering on âanimal welfareâ. âFlourishing through positive mental states, resilience and competenceâ
@liftcostaction.bsky.social
#PositiveAnimalWelfare
#AppliedPhilosophy
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare | Biology Letters
The concept of animal welfare is evolving due to progress in our scientific understanding of animal biology and changing societal expectations. Animal welfare science has been primarily concerned with...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0382
11 months ago
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Carsten Fogh Nielsen
11 months ago
Fra âAll's Well That Ends Wellâ, Act 4, Scene 3.
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Jens-Christian Svenning
12 months ago
Our new study on the diet of one of Europe's more controversial animals, racoon dog provides no evidence that it is a threat to ground-nesting
#birds
nor to endangered
#amphibiansđŸđŠđž
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#racoondog
#mesopredator
#alienspecies
#dknatur
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Diet of raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Danish wetlands with focus on ground-nesting birds and amphibians - European Journal of Wildlife Research
In European countries, raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) are believed to impact ecosystems and potentially threaten native species. In this study, the stomachs of 525 raccoon dogs culled in Dani...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-024-01886-0
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Mickey Gjerris
about 1 year ago
#ATSPolitiken
vinder internettet i dag đ
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Hannah Winther
about 1 year ago
I det nyeste nummeret av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, som ogsÄ markerer tidsskriftets 40-Ärsjubileum, bidrar BjÞrn Myskja og jeg med en artikkel om bÄde Genteknologiutvalget og spÞrsmÄlet om hvorvidt genredigering av oppdrettslaksen kan vÊre svaret pÄ miljÞ- og velferdsproblemene i oppdrettsnÊringen.
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Kristin Gjesdal
about 1 year ago
As a philosophy student in Scandinavia in the 1990s, the University of Aarhus was the place to be for post-Kantian thought â thanks, in no small part, to the legendary Justus Hartnack. Needless to say, Iâm thrilled to give the 2024 Hartnack Lecture on Dec. 10.
#Philsky
#Aarhus
#WomenInPhilosophy
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@Animals&Society is closing down. It has been one of the important connection hubs in human-animal studies for decades.
www.animalsandsociety.org/news/asi-clo...
about 1 year ago
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Jo Wolff
about 1 year ago
There are too many Institutes for Advanced Studies. Iâm seeking funding for my new Institute for Studies So Out There, Forget About It!
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Jo Wolff
about 1 year ago
Once upon a time I worried about people 'stealing my ideas'. But in the areas I work, anyway, no one has time enough even to write up their own ideas, let alone working on someone else's.
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Jo Wolff
about 1 year ago
Successful academic writing: Thatâs goodness thatâs finished. Oh no, peer review comments. Phew, done. Oh no, copy editors comments. Phew done. Oh no proof reading. Phew done. Published!! (Reads it again. Thinks to self: Who wrote this rubbish?)
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Carsten Fogh Nielsen
about 1 year ago
1/ Kandidatudvalget er kommet med deres afsluttende rapport om fremtidens kandidatuddannelser:
ufm.dk/publikatione...
I rapporten fremlĂŠgger udvalget sine anbefalinger til, hvordan folketingsforliget om ĂŠndringer af de danske universitetsuddannelser skal implementeres
#uddpol
#dkpol
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Jonathan Birch
about 1 year ago
Schopenhauer said that we should address each other not as "Mr" or "Mrs", but as "fellow sufferer, companion in misery" - thinking of trying this out.
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Dr Heather Browning (Veit)
about 1 year ago
So excited to receive the advance copies of our forthcoming book 'What Are Zoos For?'. Available for preorder now:
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...
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