Summary of Sydney ethology workshop

The Sydney workshop The Sydney workshop The History, Philosophy and Future of Ethology (Feb. 19-21) is summed up in an entrance in the March News Bulletin of the Australian Animal Studies Group.

Excerpts:

The February workshop was an intensive, intimate three day discussion that brought together a range of guests from various disciplinary backgrounds. Growing out of a panel on ― Ethology and Continental Philosophy ― at the Minding Animals conference in Newcastle, 2009, it further developed the conversation at this border, as well as engaging with other related disciplines – including neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, film-making, Egyptology, zoömusicology and literary studies.
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Norwegian biosemiotician Morten Tønnessen illustrated his use and development of Jakob von Uexküll‘s Umwelt theory to understand contemporary wolf management.

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The obvious profit so many took from the three days of discussion bodes well for future interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange at this crucial meeting point of philosophy, ethnology and ethology.