Kyle Johannsen | |
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| Thesis | On the Conceptual Status of Justice (2015) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christine Sypnowich |
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| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
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| Notable ideas | Ethical duties toward wild animals |
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Kyle Johannsen is a Canadian philosopher. He specialises inanimal andenvironmental ethics, as well aspolitical andsocial philosophy. He has particularly engaged with the topic of ethical duties towards wild animals. Johannsen is currently affiliated withTrent University andQueen's University. He is also a host on theNew Books Network'sAnimal Studies podcast. He is the author ofA Conceptual Investigation of Justice (2018) andWild Animal Ethics (2020), and the editor ofPositive Duties to Wild Animals (2024).
Johannsen read for aB.A. in philosophy with a minor in history atYork University from 2003 to 2007, before reading for anM.A. in philosophy at the same institution from 2007 to 2009. He read for aPhD in philosophy atQueen's University from 2010 to 2015.[1] In his fourth year, Johannsen won first place in theCanadian Philosophical Association's student essay competition for his essay "On the Normative Status of Justice".[2] His dissertation was titledOn the Conceptual Status of Justice and was supervised by Christine Sypnowich.[3]
Johannsen took up avisiting assistant professorship atSaint Mary's University, Halifax, from 2016 to 2017, followed by a visiting assistant professorship atTrent University from 2017 to 2018. He remained a sessional faculty member at Trent from 2018 onward. In 2020, Johannsen became an adjunct assistant professor at Queen's University and a Fellow in Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) at the university.[1] His research focuses onsocial andpolitical philosophy, as well asanimal andenvironmental ethics. Additionally, Johannsen is a host on theNew Books Network'sAnimal Studies podcast.[4]
Johannsen publishedA Conceptual Investigation of Justice in 2018, a revised version of his dissertation as a book.[5] It was the subject of a symposium at theCanadian Philosophical Association's 2018 meeting. The presented papers were later published inDialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review.[6]
Johannsen'sWild Animal Ethics was published in 2020. The book explores whether humans have a duty to reducewild animal suffering from adeontological perspective and concludes that such duties do exist, examining the implications of this conclusion.[7] The following year, a symposium was held by APPLE on the book at Queen's University.[8] The papers presented at the symposium were later published inPhilosophia.[9] Additionally, the book was reviewed byThomas Lepeltier in the French-languagepopular science magazineSciences Humaines.[10]
In 2024, Johannsen publishedPositive Duties to Wild Animals, a collection of essays by various scholars that aims to advance the interventionist literature onwild animal suffering by employing diverse theoretical frameworks, including some that have not previously been used to establish positive duties toward wild animals.[11] It was originally published as a special issue of the journalEthics, Policy & Environment.[12]
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