Simon Hajdini

Senior Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Simon Hajdini is senior research associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he teaches social and political philosophy. He is the author of What’s That Smell? A Philosophy of the Olfactory (2024).

Written by Simon Hajdini

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HISTORY OF IDEAS

I smell, therefore I am. On the philosophy of the olfactory

To truly grip us, philosophy must engage with the practical and animalistic. It’s time to stop turning its nose up at smell

by Simon Hajdini