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
Erasmus School of Philosophy
- hendlin@esphil.eur.nl
- Room
- J5-63
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (2023) - OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM - Zygon - doi: 10.1111/zygo.12864 - [link]
- Daphne Broeks, Yogi Hendlin & Hub Zwart (2022) - Fake cells and the aura of life: A philosophical diagnostic of synthetic life - Endeavour, 46 (4) - doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2022.100845 - [link]
- Yogi H. Hendlin (2022) - Plant Philosophy and Interpretation: Making Sense of Contemporary Plant Intelligence Debates - Environmental Values, 31 (3), 253-276 - doi: 10.3197/096327121X16141642287755 - [link]
- Pamela M. Ling, Minji Kim, Catherine O. Egbe, Roengrudee Patanavanich, Mariana Pinho & Yogi Hendlin (2022) - Moving targets: how the rapidly changing tobacco and nicotine landscape creates advertising and promotion policy challenges - Tobacco Control, 31 (2), 222-228 - doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056552 - [link]
- Genna Reed, Yogi Hendlin, Anita Desikan, Taryn MacKinney, Emily Berman & Gretchen T. Goldman (2021) - The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity - Journal of Public Health Policy, 42 (4), 622-634 - doi: 10.1057/s41271-021-00318-6 - [link]
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (2021) - Colony Collapse and the Global Swarm to save the Bees: Sacred Relations with Bees in Film and Literature - World Futures, 77 (7), 532-558 - doi: 10.1080/02604027.2021.1974265 - [link]
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (2021) - Surveying the Chemical Anthropocene Chemical Imaginaries and the Politics of Defining Toxicity - Environment and Society: Advances in Research, 12 (1), 181-202 - doi: 10.3167/ARES.2021.120111 - [link]
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (2021) - Expanding the Reach of Biosemiotics - Biosemiotics, 14 (1), 1-4 - doi: 10.1007/s12304-021-09425-z - [link]
- Eric Schaetzle & Yogi Hendlin (2021) - Between Teleophilia and Teleophobia - Biosemiotics, 14 (1), 95-100 - doi: 10.1007/s12304-021-09421-3 - [link]
- Yogi Hale Hendlin (2021) - The Law of the Excluded Middle: Discourse as Casualty of the Post-Truth Extremist Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic - Law, Culture and the Humanities - doi: 10.1177/1743872121999737 - [link]
- Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Great Transitions: Whether we want them or not.
- Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Integrating Spirituality into the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Agnotology: Studying Denial.
- Yogi Hendlin (2020) - The Tandem Evolution of Rights for Women and Rights for Nature: An Ecofeminist Perspective on State Recognition.
- Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Biotechnology, the Environment, and Unintended Consequences. "Film Lecture on “Little Joe."
- Yogi Hendlin (2019) - The Promise and Perils of Carbon Taxes for Inclusive Prosperity.
- Yogi Hendlin (2019) - Industrial Epidemics: A new public health frame for an old problem.
- 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.”
- Yogi Hendlin (2019) - The Promises and Perils of Carbon Taxes.
- Yogi Hendlin (2019) - Interspecies Biosemiotics.
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
The Invention of Pollution
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FW-MA0011
Advanced Academic Skills Courses
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FW-BA3006
MA Central
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FW-MA000
Academic Skills 1
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FW-MA0001
Master Thesis & Milestones
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FW-MA0003
AASC: Societal Transitions
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FW-BA3005C
AASC: Philosophy of Sustainability
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FW-BA3006C
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