Søren Harnow Klausen is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he has also been an Alexander-von-Humboldt research fellow. He is currently head of the re- search program Values, Welfare and Health Communication, and leader of the research project Elderly Welfare and Alcohol – A Tricky Cocktail, funded by the VELUX foundation. He has published in epistemology, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, value theory, welfare and happiness studies, philosophy of education and philosophy of literature.