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Philosopher based in Aarhus. PI of the ERC-project The Glue of Society - A Social Ontology of Social Cohesion.

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The post draws on earlier work funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and ongoing research on moral responsibility (funded by the DFF) and social cohesion (funded by the ERC).

06.08.2025 14:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can We Blame Rioters? Political riots raise important moral questions. When we see or hear about a riot, we are prompted to consider whether the cause is just and whether rioting is a justified means of protest. Some belie...

I was invited to write a blog post for the American Philosophical Association on a tricky question: Can we blame rioters who get swept up by the crowd? I argue yes, but show that standard theories struggle with this.

Read it below!

#philosophy #moralresponsibility #socialontology #APAblog

06.08.2025 14:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Emancipatory Methodology* | Ethics: Vol 135, No 3

Emancipatory Methodology, by Elizabeth Barnes and Dee Payton discussing Katherine Jenkins’s Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality, weighing how philosophical theory can or should be evaluated in action: doi.org/10.1086/733913 #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #moralphilosophy

10.04.2025 13:49 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Feel like doing a PhD on social cohesion? There is still some time left to apply. Deadline is March 15!

Reach out for more info on the project at knudsen@cas.au.dk.

04.03.2025 07:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cardiff Philosophy is a place of excellent research and teaching. Please sign and share, #PhilSky

05.02.2025 20:23 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
The Glue of Society: A Social Ontology of Social Cohesion (GLUE), (4+4/5+3), 2025-2

📣 There is an open (and fully funded) PhD position in my project on the social ontology of social cohesion!

Follow the link for the full call details.

Reach out (at knudsen@cas.au.dk) if you have any questions about the project or the position.

30.01.2025 12:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Postdoctoral position in social philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Philosophy and History of Ideas, Dept. of, Aarhus University

There's only one week left to apply for the open postdoc position in my ERC project on the social ontology of social cohesion! Reach out if you have any questions about eligibility, the project, or the department (which is great!).

#PhilJobs #Philosophy #SocialOntology #SocialCohesion #ERC

24.01.2025 07:53 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Not the best day for Denmark. But at least we can be glad that we haven't based our economy on selling overpriced insulin to the American market....

07.01.2025 19:31 👍 42 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

En tilføjelse er @lauritzmunch.bsky.social

20.12.2024 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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 - Afdeling for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Aarhus Universitet

📢 I'm hiring! Join the ERC-funded GLUE project on the social ontology of social cohesion at Aarhus University as a postdoc. Deadline: Jan 31, 2025. Start date: Sept 1, 2025.

Read more and apply here: www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

#PhilosophyJobs #ERC

18.12.2024 12:25 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Thanks, Esben! And thanks for the ref, maybe you can tell me more about it tomorrow 🍻

13.12.2024 16:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And keep a lookout for job openings. I'll be searching for a PhD and a postdoc to work on social cohesion with me at the beginning of the new year.

13.12.2024 10:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The project will run concurrently with my ERC project on the social ontology of social cohesion. In short: Aarhus is really expanding its social ontology business! Reach out if you want to collaborate or chat about any of the projects.

13.12.2024 10:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who is morally responsible when organizations and businesses employ AIs that cause harm? Together with my colleague Lauritz Munch, I'll lead a new research project answering that question for the next 3-4 years. Thanks to Independent Research Fund Denmark for funding the project!

13.12.2024 10:47 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Rent nytteetisk så har jeg svært ved at forestille mig, at din lidelse på X kan være større end den nydelse vi andre får af at læse udklippene derfra. Så jeg siger ikke, at du skal blive på X. Jeg siger bare, at du muligvis er moralsk forpligtet på at blive på X.

12.12.2024 06:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Det er simpelthen vildt, hvad du skal udsættes for at bidrage til den offentlige debat.

08.12.2024 11:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hvordan pizzariaer navngiver og nummererer deres pizzaer.

06.12.2024 15:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Du er en mand af mange samfundsundergravende talenter.

27.11.2024 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Din villighed til menneskeofringer har altid været et plus i min bog.

27.11.2024 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I am happy to see my book - Heidegger's Social Ontology - reviewed in European Journal of Philosophy! You can read Stephan Käufer's nice review here: onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/doi/full/10....

27.11.2024 13:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful! Please add me.

25.11.2024 19:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Startpakken med danske filosoffer og idéhistorikere er blevet opdateret med blandt andre @sholmen.bsky.social @nicolaiknudsen.bsky.social @drbengtson.bsky.social og ikke mindst den RIGTIGE @annacornelia.bsky.social Men der er plads til flere, så meld dig eller foreslå andre. go.bsky.app/sYJqf6

25.11.2024 15:59 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 11 📌 0
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Viols de Mazan : un procès pour le futur - L'Humanité Au tribunal d’Avignon, les avocats de Gisèle Pelicot et de ses enfants ont plaidé, sobrement mais puissamment, pour les générations à venir, afin d’amorcer le changement des mental...

Tonight I’ll be raising a glass to @manongarcia.bsky.social, whose work on consent was cited in the closing arguments of the Pelicot trial in France this week as a promise of a better world.

« Nous sommes en réalité à la croisée des chemins » 🥂

www.humanite.fr/feminisme/do...

22.11.2024 13:21 👍 90 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 2

De sidste par uger har børnene insisteret på at høre Witch Doctor med Cartoons ("Uh Ih Uh Ah Ah..."), når vi skulle til og fra børnehave. De er dog ikke psykopater, så de syntes heldigvis, at det blev lidt kedeligt i længden. I stedet arbejder vi os nu gennem deres samlede diskografi. Inkl. remix.

24.11.2024 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Den perfekte julegave. Jeg vil gerne have en i A1 størrelse.

24.11.2024 15:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0