Pär Segerdahl

Biography

Pär Segerdahl investigates notions of nature and animal in animal ethics, animal welfare and philosophy, as well as in contemporary culture more generally. He holds a PhD in theoretical philosophy from Uppsala University (1993). He was a guest researcher at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University from 2007-2009, and since 2013 he works part time there in the project “Becoming ‘human’: gender theory and animals in a more-than-human world”. Pär Segerdahl became associate professor of theoretical philosophy at Åbo Akademi Univeristy in 1998 and Uppsala University in 2001. He currently develops new ideas for research on how our ethical outlook changes when the world changes, for example, when new biotechnology emerges. All his work concerns, in one way or another, the question what philosophy is and what it means to philosophize. Pär Segerdahl is involved in research communication for the BBMRI.se (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure Sweden) and editor of The Ethics Blog and Etikbloggen. He is also a member of The Nordic Wittgenstein Society.

Research Interest

Biobank and registry ethics & law