I’m excited to share that my new book on Mary Midgley is available to preorder! It’s due out December 10: www.bloomsbury.com/us/mary-midg... #marymidgley #philsky @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

We are shocked and immensely saddened to hear of the sudden passing of our friend and Pluto author Peter Fleming. A brilliant social theorist and educator, Peter approached his work with a rare mix of incisive analysis and clever wit. From analysing the absurdities of corporate culture to...

Talking to (mainly) ethologists/biologists about the history of animal welfare, focusing on C. W. Hume's early thoughts on fruitful doubt as both moral and scientific necessity. At Science for Animal Welfare Centenary Conference in London #SCIFAW100 #senatehouse #universityoflondon

The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern

The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern

In a conversation with Julian Baggini on why there are so few women in academic philosophy, Mary Warnock once noted that “of all the humanities departments in British universities, only philosophy dep...

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An excellent opportunity for an interesting philosophy postdoc. at Aarhus University. If I were a (much) younger man, I would apply to go work with Nicolai and his group. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Postdoctoral position in Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Filosofi, fag, Aarhus Universitet

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Teaching environmental philosophy @aau.dk has become much more enjoyable since I started taking my own ideas about field philosophy seriously. Happy that my students also see the point of it - even with below freezing temp turning feet into popsicles. #appliedphilosophy #environmentalphilosophy

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

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

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

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...

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 😊

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.

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...

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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

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...

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...

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...

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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.

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He is, essentially, Alan Partridge cosplaying as Martin Heidegger.

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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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...

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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...

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...

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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

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

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

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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?

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...

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…

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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.

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...

Filosofaen: kroppen i filosofien - filosofien i kroppen

Filosofaen er et ”Talk Show”, hvor en lektor i filosofi taler i

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