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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Aug 31

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...

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.

www.boerglumkloster.dk

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · Aug 8

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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Dr Beth Ventura @bethologist.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

“How could this be real philosophy?”

Interview with Jes Lynning Harfeld

open.substack.com

Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Aug 3

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...

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Jun 2

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/...

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · May 26

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

Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · May 26

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

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · May 20

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...

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...

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Apr 23

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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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Apr 1

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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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Mar 29

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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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Mar 29

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

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · Mar 25

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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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Mar 21

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.

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Mar 14

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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Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social · Mar 4

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...

Events

Spring 2025

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Feb 22

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

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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Feb 22

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).

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · Feb 2

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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Jes Lynning Harfeld @harfeld.bsky.social · Jan 27

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/...

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...

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Carsten Fogh Nielsen @filoffen.bsky.social · Jan 20

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

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jan 20

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

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