Biography
Dr. Yogi Hale Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist. Hendlin is assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, and core faculy of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as research associate in the Environmental Health Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. Hendlin's research has been published in journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, MMWR, American Journal of Public Health, Environmental Ethics, Ambio, and Environmental Philosophy. The international press regularly features Hendlin's public health research.
Hendlin's interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects tackle major questions in philosophy of biology, environmental philosophy, and political philosophy. Hendlin's epistemological inquiries into public health follow the via negativa of agnotology, comprehending the systemic transmission of ignorance.
Hendlin earned a PhD in Philosophy (magna cum laude) at the University of Kiel, Germany in 2015; holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, and the London School of Economics; and held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Vienna and the University of California, San Francisco. Hendlin was designated a 2020 Brocher Foundation Fellow.
Current research projects focus on the monographs Industrial Epidemics: Chronic Disease and the Corporate Determinants of Health and Interspecies Politics: Valuing Difference in the Biotic Community.
Further information (and blog) can be found at: www.yogihendlin.com
Areas of PhD Supervision
- Environmental Philosophy (especially biosemiotics, and environmental/ ecological justice)
- Bioethics, Medical, Business, and Public Health Ethics
- Political Philosophy (especially intergenerational justice, philosophy of the commons, and discourse ethics and its critics)
- Pragmatism (especially Peirce, Mead, and neo-pragmatists)
- Philosophy of Biology (especially Extended Evolutionary Synthesis-based) and Ecology
- 5EA Cognition / Human Ethology
- Social Epistemologies
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Work
- Luisa Zabel & Yogi Hale Hendlin (2025) - To heat or to eat: Scrutinizing the institutional response to energy poverty in Rotterdam - Energy Research and Social Science, 123 - doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104024 - [link]
- Yogi Hale Hendlin & Fernando Procópio Palazzo (2025) - Compartmentalization by industry and government inhibits addressing climate denial - PLOS Climate, 4 (1) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000552 - [link]
- Abby Muricho Onencan, Lieselot Bisschop & Yogi Hendlin (2024) - Experiences of living within PFAS-polluted environs: a systematic review - Crime, Law and Social Change, 82 (4), 961-987 - doi: 10.1007/s10611-024-10173-7 - [link]
- Brian Khumalo & Yogi Hale Hendlin (2024) - Nonveridical biosemiotics and the Interface Theory of Perception: implications for perception-mediated selection - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - doi: 10.1007/s11097-024-10013-y - [link]
- Julia M. Wittmayer, Ying Syuan Huang, Kristina Bogner, Evan Boyle, Katharina Hölscher, Timo von Wirth, Tessa Boumans, Jilde Garst, Yogi Hale Hendlin, Mariangela Lavanga, Derk Loorbach, Neha Mungekar, Mapula Tshangela, Pieter Vandekerckhove & Ana Vasques (2024) - Neither right nor wrong?: Ethics of collaboration in transformative research for sustainable futures - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11 (1), 1-15 - doi: 10.1057/s41599-024-03178-z - [link]
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (2024) - Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder’s <i>Dump Philosophy</i> - Biosemiotics, 17 (1), 233-255 - doi: 10.1007/s12304-024-09558-x - [link]
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (2024) - Introduction to the Special Issue, ‘The Biosemiotics of Waste’ - Biosemiotics, 17 (1), 1-10 - doi: 10.1007/s12304-024-09559-w - [link]
- Yogi H. Hendlin & Constantijn Alexander Kusters (2024) - Time Horizons and Biosemiotic Adaptation: Taking Seriously Variable Temporalities in the Evolution of Possible Life Forms - doi: 10.1002/9781119865667.ch22 - [link]
- Julia Vassey, Yogi H. Hendlin, Manali Vora & Pamela Ling (2023) - Influence of Disclosed and Undisclosed Funding Sources in Tobacco Harm Reduction Discourse: A Social Network Analysis - Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 25 (12), 1829-1837 - doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac250 - [link]
- Matthew A. Slayton & Yogi Hale Hendlin (2023) - The Musical Turn in Biosemiotics: An Expressivist Model of Communication - Biosemiotics, 16 (2), 221-237 - doi: 10.1007/s12304-023-09532-z - [link]
- Yogi Hendlin (7 November 2023) - Vape and waste – a new dilemma
- Yogi Hendlin (31 October 2023) - Disposable Vape Waste a Problem for Cities
- Yogi Hendlin (30 October 2023) - Disposing of Disposable Vapes a Problem for Cities
- Yogi Hendlin (30 October 2023) - The Environmental Cost of the E-cigarette Boom
- Yogi Hendlin (26 October 2023) - Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them?
- Yogi Hendlin (25 October 2023) - How to dispose of vaping devices'Hazardous waste' can't be thrown away or recycled
- Yogi Hendlin (25 October 2023) - Cities battle risks and high cost of e-cigarette waste
- Yogi Hendlin (25 October 2023) - Cities battle risks and high cost of e-cigarette waste
- Yogi Hendlin (25 October 2023) - How to dispose of vaping devices'Hazardous waste' can't be thrown away or recycled
- Yogi Hendlin (24 October 2023) - Communities Can’t Recycle or Trash E-Cigarettes. So, What Happens to Them?
- Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Great Transitions: Whether we want them or not. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Integrating Spirituality into the Social Sciences and Humanities (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Agnotology: Studying Denial. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2020) - The Tandem Evolution of Rights for Women and Rights for Nature: An Ecofeminist Perspective on State Recognition. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Biotechnology, the Environment, and Unintended Consequences. "Film Lecture on “Little Joe." (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2019) - The Promise and Perils of Carbon Taxes for Inclusive Prosperity. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2019) - Industrial Epidemics: A new public health frame for an old problem. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2019) - Fossil Fuel Industry Documents and the Social Good of making Historic Archives Public. Convener with Kalmus P, Cobb K, Wohldmann E, “Communicating with Appropriate Urgency: Scientific Reticence and Responsibility in a Time of Accelerating Climate Change.” (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2019) - The Promises and Perils of Carbon Taxes. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yogi Hendlin (2019) - Interspecies Biosemiotics. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
Springer Nature
- Start date approval
- February 2023
- End date approval
- February 2026
- Place
- BERLIN
- Description
- Editor-in-Chief of journal Biosemiotics
University of California
- Start date approval
- February 2023
- End date approval
- February 2026
- Place
- SAN FRANCISCO
- Description
- Collaboration in Public Health
Luminous
- Start date approval
- May 2024
- End date approval
- May 2027
- Place
- BOSTON, UNITED STATES
- Description
- Advising on Semiotics Consulting
