New phone number

My new phone number at work (University of Stavanger's Department of social studies) is (+47) 5183 4149.

Note that I work from my home office Wednesday to Friday this autumn.

IACS program and abstracts online

The program for the upcoming conference First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference (Lund, Sweden, September 25-27th) is available online. So are abstracts, including for my paper "Will the agents of nature please rise: What is agency?" 

Animals in changing environments homepages updated

I have updated the Norwegian homepage of the research project "Animals in changing environments: Cultural mediation and semiotic analysis", in both its English and Norwegian language versions. Sections updated include Researchers and Publications.

Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference on fish welfare featured in Nationen commentary

21st of August the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference (Dyreetikkonferansen) on fish welfare was featured in a 1-page commentary in the Norwegian daily newspaper Nationen, which is known as the farmers' newspaper. The commentary, by Michael Brøndbo, was entitled "Fisken og dens følelsesliv" (The fish and its emotional life).

2 hours of teaching - normative ethics

Today I have been lecturing for 2 hours in the course Examen Philosophicum at University of Stavanger's Department of social studies. The topic of this lecture, the third this autumn, was normative ethics.

Radio interview on animal experience of mortality aired; podcast

Today NRK P2's weekly radio program Verdibørsen aired, featuring a 15 minute interview with me on animal experience of mortality. Podcast is available.

In the interview I make reference to Peter Wessel Zapffe and Michael Polanyi.

Minding Animals board meeting in Oslo attended

Yesterday I participated in Minding Animals Norway's board meeting in central Oslo. On the agenda was among other things preparations for the annual meeting.