Jes Lynning Harfeld

A great opportunity to hear about carnivores from some of the smartest people around ... and me. We would love to see all those interested in carnivores at our upcoming conference: “Small and Medium Sized Carnivore Conference” taking place on April 8–9, 2026 - here at @aau.dk.
www.smcc.bio.aau.dk

How interesting. It's composition is that of Nighthawks. Is that a theme in his works?

Photo of Feyerabend, www.pkfeyerabend.org.

Paul Feyerabend was born OTD in 1924.

Knowledge is not a body of consistent theories converging on truth. It is “an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible … alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth … forcing the others into greater articulation.”

🧪🦋🦫 #PhilSci #STS

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

And keep us updated here on bsky :-)

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...

ChatGPT created image of a 18th century academic. There are no known images of F.C. Eilschov. The text bit is from his book and says (in Danish) that we can kill animal enemies, but that this does not mean that we can kill animals in general to eat them.

New Year’s Resolution 🎆
I will finish my first article on Frederik Christian Eilschov (1725–1750) and his fabulously titled book: “Philosophical Letters – On Various Useful and Important Matters.” He argues against eating meat, while still supporting hunting as a form of just war.
#animalphilosophy

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

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: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEjgcF2Ow...

Enig [Train, Aarhus 2003]

Øj, hvor jeg - stadig - savner Peter Steele.

Great talk yesterday on perspectival flexibility as a virtue by @pasliwa.bsky.social from @univie.ac.at. It was at the annual Hartnack Lecture at the philosophy section of @au.dk and I had brought along some of my students from @aau.dk who said the talk was "difficult but interesting". I agree 😊

If there is no good reason for you to start with F&B when setting out to read Kierkegaard, I would really suggest that you stop. Put it away and read almost anything before you go back to it. Sickness unto Death or Either-Or would be much better places to start. Unless FAITH is your main thing.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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/...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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?

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

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...