Yogi Hale Hendlin is Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in the Erasmus School of Philosophy, and Core Faculty in the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative, Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a Research Associate in the Environmental Health Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco.
Previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Vienna, as co-author of a successful FWF (Austrian Science Foundation) grant titled “New Directions in Plant Ethics,” Hendlin completed his doctorate in Philosophy magna cum laude at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. Ther…
Yogi Hale Hendlin is Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in the Erasmus School of Philosophy, and Core Faculty in the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative, Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a Research Associate in the Environmental Health Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco.
Previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Vienna, as co-author of a successful FWF (Austrian Science Foundation) grant titled “New Directions in Plant Ethics,” Hendlin completed his doctorate in Philosophy magna cum laude at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. There, Hendlin served for 6 semesters as a lecturer (Dozent) teaching 4 courses per semester under the aegis of the Chair of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Konrad Ott, a third-generation Frankfurt School environmental critical theorist, who graduated under Jürgen Habermas. Hendlin’s dissertation applied biosemiotics to Habermasian discourse ethics, making the case for interspecies political inclusion based on biologically-based and verifiable ethical communicative action with nonhuman beings.
With undergraduate honors and distinction in both Rhetoric and Political Science from the University at California, Berkeley, a M.Sc. in Political Theory from the London School of Economics, and doctoral work and an M.A. in Political Science completed at the University of California, Los Angeles, Hendlin commands a broad palette of knowledge in the humanities and social science. Intensive study in Spain, Chile, England and Germany have not only brought lingual fluency and cultural competencies, but also keep Hendlin connected with the various country-, language-, and region-specific academic debates. Autodidactic study in the biological/ecological sciences continues to suffuse Hendlin’s theorizing and research directions; dedicated work in public health policy–from fielding bicycle count surveys to archival research on how the tobacco industry’s legacy of denialism bodes for addressing environmental wrongs–connects Hendlin’s more theoretical commitments to practical societal applications. Hendlin’s abiding dedication to dismantling injurious misconceptions dividing nature and humanity by reorienting rights and consideration around epistemologies of difference, and their application to ecological and environmental justice, make Hendlin’s work highly relevant for his respective disciplines and today’s major social issues.
