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Jes Lynning Harfeld

@harfeld.bsky.social

Associate professor of applied philosophy - animal and environmental philosophy #Aalborg University

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Bayeux tapetet - Oplev den eneste fulde kopi på Børglum Kloster Børglum Kloster har som det eneste sted i verden en tro kopi af det historiske tapet. Det smukke tapet er 70 meter langt og broderet af uldgarn. Se det her.

A group of Danish embroiderers (real word?) used 14 years to make a copy. Maybe they could borrow that in stead of destroying priceless historical items. www.boerglumkloster.dk/hvad-kan-jeg...

31.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

'Elizabeth Costello' is just brilliant. But read 'The Lives of Animals' first.

13.08.2025 06:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

My paper ‘Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder’ 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.

08.08.2025 07:57 — 👍 71    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 1
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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 morning’s @applied-ethology.bsky.social #ISAE2025 session

07.08.2025 07:24 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
“How could this be real philosophy?” Interview with Jes Lynning Harfeld

I've been interviewed about public philosophy by Mara-Daria Cojocaru for the 'Philosophy Going Wild!'-project
open.substack.com/pub/thedryno...

05.08.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 'Nordspråk' summer course in front of Nordic language teachers.
Tak til @lottepraetorius.bsky.social for invitation og foto.
nordspraak.com/2024/12/19/s...

03.08.2025 12:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Her er det nye program 🥳 | Folkeuniversitetet i Aalborg Her er det nye program 🥳 I slutningen af juli lander det i postkasserne, men du behøver ikke vente så længe, for allerede nu kan du kigge i den online version her: http://bit.ly/4nlxAPU Til efterår...

I samarbejde med Folkeuniversitetet i Aalborg afholder jeg 2x #Filosofaen her i efteråret. Det er godt, skønt og fyldt med mulige sandheder at være med til filosofiske samtaler. Så kig forbi Café Ordgeist til oktober.
www.linkedin.com/posts/folkeu...

26.06.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

18.06.2025 08:03 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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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/...

02.06.2025 20:26 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

This is the most perfect description of Jordan Peterson I‘ve ever read.

26.05.2025 09:38 — 👍 85    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 1
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Human-Animal Studies – Now and in the Future | LinkedIn Minding Animals Danmark er nu klar med vores første event, som forhåbentlig bliver startskuddet til mange flere. Vi har inviteret en række spændende talere, som vil fortælle om deres forskning i forh...

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...

20.05.2025 12:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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 human–animal relations, emphasizing its political nature and critiquing the limited scope of orthodox an...

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...

23.04.2025 14:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

23.04.2025 07:05 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral researcher position at the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Husdyr- og Veterinærvidenskab - ANIVET Management og Modellering (MAMO), Aarhus Universitet

Great department and great people. 5* Would recommand :-) anivet.au.dk/om-institutt...

01.04.2025 13:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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?

29.03.2025 12:28 — 👍 322    🔁 64    💬 59    📌 11

Har du et link, Sofie? Det er go' til undervisning.

29.03.2025 11:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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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 will…

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...

25.03.2025 10:48 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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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.

21.03.2025 15:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Filosofaen: kroppen i filosofien - filosofien i kroppen Filosofaen er et ”Talk Show”, hvor en lektor i filosofi taler i

På mandag gæster filosof og kropsligt væsen, 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...

14.03.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Events Spring 2025

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...

04.03.2025 14:40 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2

Also: Great project! So looking forward to the book :-)

22.02.2025 17:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would like to read about the contemporary inpspirations for her aristotelianism. How does Foot's work influence her? Who else, contemporarily, were her experiences in this area? Fx., I always find it a bit strange that her work and MacIntyre's work doesn't mention each other (as far as I've read).

22.02.2025 17:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
Philosophers at a salon

Philosophers at a salon

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

02.02.2025 11:00 — 👍 88    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 8
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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...

I have had the happy opportunity to be part of some meaningful conceptual engineering on ‘animal welfare’. “Flourishing through positive mental states, resilience and competence”
@liftcostaction.bsky.social
#PositiveAnimalWelfare #AppliedPhilosophy
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

27.01.2025 17:12 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fra ‘All's Well That Ends Well’, Act 4, Scene 3.

20.01.2025 20:01 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

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 #amphibians🐾🦆🐸 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #racoondog #mesopredator #alienspecies #dknatur

16.01.2025 05:59 — 👍 50    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 8
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#ATSPolitiken vinder internettet i dag 😂

16.12.2024 12:38 — 👍 120    🔁 35    💬 6    📌 2
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I det nyeste nummeret av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, som også markerer tidsskriftets 40-årsjubileum, bidrar Bjørn Myskja og jeg med en artikkel om både Genteknologiutvalget og spørsmålet om hvorvidt genredigering av oppdrettslaksen kan være svaret på miljø- og velferdsproblemene i oppdrettsnæringen.

10.12.2024 14:32 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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As a philosophy student in Scandinavia in the 1990s, the University of Aarhus was the place to be for post-Kantian thought – thanks, in no small part, to the legendary Justus Hartnack. Needless to say, I’m thrilled to give the 2024 Hartnack Lecture on Dec. 10.

#Philsky #Aarhus #WomenInPhilosophy

06.12.2024 06:11 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I would like to be added. Cheers.

05.12.2024 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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