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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
Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/gmOzBePcRg4

Understanding why we feel a subjective…

A big thank you to @OxfordFOE1 for being our 4,000th follower 🥳 Thank you all for being one of the 3,999 others too 💚 Your support is helping to normalise "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" = #Sentientism. Hopefully you agree that's…

Imagine we could re-conceive economics to be relevant to all sentient beings: Sentientist Economics?

Are humans the most sentient animal? Without a way to categorize variations in sentience, this question doesn’t make any sense. In this video, I present a paper called The Dimensions of Animal Consciousness, which proposes five possible variations in sentience:…

Ethics based on common sense seems to have a horrible historical track record. Can we do better?

In this episode, I spoke with Jamie Woodhouse of Sentientism. We discussed and fruitfully debated sentience, the difference between vegan and vegetarian, what changes can a person make in their food consumption? Do #ethical food choices/options necessarily…

Freedom of Species conversation about how to handle misinformation, disinformation and conspiracism in the animal advocacy and vegan movements.

Karthik is MD of the Fish Welfare Initiative, India (https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/). He has a background in animal welfare & ethical livelihoods. He is a PhD scholar at the National Academy of Legal Studies & Research in India & previously managed…

Constantine (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/constantine-sandis) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, Director of Lex A...