David is an activist & chief petitioner of the Yes On IP13 campaign (https://www.yesonip13.org/ & @yesonip13) which aims to outlaw the harming & killing of sentient animals in the US state of Oregon. That's without exceptions for animal agriculture, hunting…

Mary Pat is the director of graduate programs at the Institute for Humane Education (@HumaneEducation & https://humaneeducation.org/) & faculty at Antioch University. Mary Pat has been in the field of education since 1979 when she began teaching as a Peace…

"Science denial is about identity, not facts" - Lee McIntyre, author of "How to Talk to a Science Denier" - Sentientism Episode 92

Robots aren't people. If anything, they're animals.

A conversation with Alex Lockwood, fiction & non-fiction writer, academic and activist. Sentientism is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings".

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Helen (https://twitter.com/hkopnina) is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Business at the Uni of Northumbria & The Hague Uni. Her research focuses on environmental education, biodiversity & corporate sustainability.

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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg: The podcast about ideas that matter

An introduction to W.K. Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief.”

Vegan Atheist Coral is an ex-Mormon atheist with a naturalistic worldview & a “meat & potatoes girl” turned vegan.

Phenomenal consciousness appears to be particularly normatively significant. For this reason, sentience-based conceptions of ethics are widespread. In the field of animal ethics, knowing which animals are sentient appears to be ...

On February 16, 2022, Hugh Taft-Morales moderated our latest Salon, Sentientism, Activism, and Personal Growth, which explains what Sentientism is and how we can incorporate it into our daily lives. Special thanks to our esteemed presenters Amy Halpern-Laff…

Listen now (69 min) | How to have difficult conversations about the ethics of animal farming, an interview with Sentientism podcast host Jamie Woodhouse

One very powerful narrative in the animal protection movement goes like this: in the grip of bad philosophy, people in the West used to think that sentience is a necessary but not sufficient condition for moral standing, and that all and only humans are sentient.…

Dr. Richard Firth-Godbehere PhD (https://www.drrichfg.com/ & https://twitter.com/DrRichFG) is a world leading expert on disgust & emotion. He is an independent researcher & consultant in the history, language, science & philosophy of emotions & an honorary…

Carter Dillard (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carter-dillard-a65bb376/) is Policy Director and Board Member of the Fair Start Movement (https://twitter.com/FairStartOrg & https://fairstartmovement.org/), an organisation dedicated to giving every child a fair…

An evolutionary biologist argues that animals could feel more pain than humans.

Mark Solms discusses his new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the centre of mental life.
Mark's book "The Hidden Spring" is available now: https://geni.us/CWaA
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Understanding why we feel a subjective…