dr. YH (Yogi) Hendlin

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

Assistant professor | WP ESPhil

Email: hendlin@esphil.eur.nl

Work

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 Hale Hendlin (2023) - OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM - Zygon, 58 (2), 315-339 - doi: 10.1111/zygo.12864 - [link]
Yogi Hale Hendlin (2023) - Sensitive Souls and Biosemiotic Agency as Emergence - Biosemiotics, 16 (1), 15-20 - doi: 10.1007/s12304-023-09524-z - [link]

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Yogi Hendlin (7 november 2023) - Vape and waste – a new dilemma
Yogi Hendlin (31 oktober 2023) - Disposable Vape Waste a Problem for Cities
Yogi Hendlin (30 oktober 2023) - Disposing of Disposable Vapes a Problem for Cities
Yogi Hendlin (30 oktober 2023) - The Environmental Cost of the E-cigarette Boom
Yogi Hendlin (26 oktober 2023) - Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them?
Yogi Hendlin (25 oktober 2023) - How to dispose of vaping devices'Hazardous waste' can't be thrown away or recycled
Yogi Hendlin (25 oktober 2023) - Cities battle risks and high cost of e-cigarette waste
Yogi Hendlin (25 oktober 2023) - Cities battle risks and high cost of e-cigarette waste
Yogi Hendlin (25 oktober 2023) - How to dispose of vaping devices'Hazardous waste' can't be thrown away or recycled
Yogi Hendlin (24 oktober 2023) - Communities Can’t Recycle or Trash E-Cigarettes. So, What Happens to Them?

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Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Great Transitions: Whether we want them or not. (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Integrating Spirituality into the Social Sciences and Humanities (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Agnotology: Studying Denial. (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2020) - The Tandem Evolution of Rights for Women and Rights for Nature: An Ecofeminist Perspective on State Recognition. (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2020) - Biotechnology, the Environment, and Unintended Consequences. "Film Lecture on “Little Joe." (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2019) - The Promise and Perils of Carbon Taxes for Inclusive Prosperity. (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2019) - Industrial Epidemics: A new public health frame for an old problem. (Speaker)
Activiteit: 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)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2019) - The Promises and Perils of Carbon Taxes. (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Yogi Hendlin (2019) - Interspecies Biosemiotics. (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic