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Sentientism
by Jamie Woodhouse
We discuss the biggest questions: "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" with scientists, celebrities, activists, writers and philosophers.The Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined.Find out more at https://sentientism.info/ or join a group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism. Also on YouTube!
Episodes
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Magnus Vinding | Compassionate Purpose, Reasoned Politics, Suffering-Focused Ethics | Sentientism 252
Magnus Vinding co-founded the Center for Reducing Suffering where he is also a researcher. He is the author of books including Compassionate Purpose, Reasoned Politics and Suffering-Focused Ethics. In this Sentientism conversation, he explores how we can live purposeful lives that help make the...
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Denise Baden | Is Sustainable Ethical Business Just Bullshit? | Sentientism 251
Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business, climate activist, and novelist, joins Jamie for a Sentientist conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.We cover:🌍 Growing up with an "evangelical atheist" father, and why she never believed in God or Father...
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How to Change Humanity | Björn Ólafsson | Sentientism 250
What actually convinces a politician, a farmer, or a sceptical friend to change how they think about nonhuman animals? Researcher and advocate Björn Ólafsson joins The Sentientism Podcast to talk about leaving Catholicism behind, why social norms get mistaken for morals, and why sentience; not...
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Religion, Morality and Philosophy in Scotland | What Even Is RMPS Sentientism Episode Cross-post | Sentientism 249
This episode is a cross-post of my conversation about the Sentientism worldview with Steph Whyte on her fascinating podcast, What even is RMPS (Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies)? If you're interested in how kids in Scotland learn about worldviews, religions, morality and philosophy…
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Pretty Lies that hide the truth and drive discrimination | Natalie Khazaal | Sentientism 248
Dr. Natalie Khazaal is Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech, where she directs the Arabic and Middle East & North Africa programs. Her work spans teaching Arabic, exploring the lives of atheists and apostates in Arab and Muslim communities, nonhuman animal ethics,...
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Brain Shaman | Sentientism episode x-post | 247
This episode is a cross-post of my conversation about the Sentientism worldview with Michael Waite on his fascinating "Brain Shaman" podcast. Make sure you go and subscribe there too. The Sentientism worldview is “evidence, reason, & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at...
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Citizens' Assemblies, But With Animals & Plants | Multispecies Politics & Art | Eva Meijer | Sentientism 246
Eva Meijer is a philosopher, novelist, poet, and visual artist whose work explores nonhuman animals, politics, language, and multispecies relationships. In this conversation, Sentientism episode 246, we cover:- What living with 25 ex-laboratory mice taught her about life, death, and what matters-...
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In Tune to Nature with Carrie Freeman - Sentientism episode X-post - 245
This episode is a cross-post of my discussion on Sentientism with Carrie Freeman on her "In Tune To Nature" podcast and radio show. Make sure you go and subscribe there too. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at...
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Have We Fallen for the Greatest Deception? - Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu's hard-hitting truth - Sentientism 244
In Sentientism episode 244, philosopher John Sanbonmatsu (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-...) discusses his powerful new book The Omnivore's Deception (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15422/97814.... It's a radical, hard-hitting critique of the stories we tell ourselves and each other to justify...
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Spirituality, Veganism & Sentientism: Mari Andrew on Animals, Meaning, and Moral Hierarchy - Sentientism 243
What happens when spirituality, animal ethics, veganism, and sentientism collide? In this wide-ranging conversation, writer and artist Mari Andrew explores faith, doubt, morality, and our relationship with non-human animals, from Christianity and myth to veganism, hierarchy, and what it really...
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"The Mountain In The Sea" author Ray Nayler - Hugo & Locus award-winner - Sentientism 242
Ray Nayler is a Hugo and Locus Award winning author. Born in Quebec and raised in California, he lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo as a Foreign Service officer, a Peace Corps volunteer,...
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Should Constitutions Protect All Sentient Beings? - John Adenitire & Raffael Fasel - Sentientism 241
Raffael Fasel is University Assistant Professor in Public Law at the Cambridge Law Faculty and Fellow of Jesus College. He specialises in public law, with a particular interest in constitutional theory, human rights law, and animal rights law. Raffael is co-founder and co-director of the…
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Censored Landscapes - Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez - Sentientism 240
Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez is an artist, writer, photographer, teacher and activist. She describes her work as "part of a long tradition in art and photography: to bring to light and find beauty in the hidden, unconscious, or disregarded. As the daughter of emigrants from Mexico and Italy...
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Religious people and atheists should team up to help animals - David Clough - Sentientism 239
David Clough is Professor and Chair in Theology and AppliedSciences at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Local Preacher in the Methodist Church. David is also co-president of the charity CreatureKind and he founded the DefaultVeg project, now part of the work of the Better Food Foundation. From...
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MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds - Sci-fi author Joan Slonczewski - Sentientism 238
Joan Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: "A Door into Ocean" and "The Highest Frontier". Their latest novel is "Minds...
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Teaching Compassion - Heather Marshall & Michelle St John of VinE - Sentientism 237
Michelle St. John is the founder and director of VinE (Veganism in Education). VinE aims, through education, to encourage the development of empathy, critical thinking and ethical decision making, She has background in law, having worked as a Crown Prosecutor, a Magistrate and as guest lecturer…
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Giving $500 to 1000 people to do something Drop Dead Generous - Tom Cledwyn - Sentientism 236
Tom Cledwyn describes himself as the "chief emailer" at Drop Dead Generous (he's actually the co-founder). Inspired by Chris Anderson's (of TED) book, "Infectious Generosity", Tom and his co-founder John Sweeney set up DDG as an experiment in sparking creative, fun, hopefully infectious…
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We're Reaching a Critical Mass - Consumer Behaviour Expert Jack Waverley - Sentientism 235
Jack Waverley is a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Manchester. He uses marketing and consumer research to protect and promote the interests of all animals, including humans. Jack teaches on a range of BSc and MSc courses in the Fashion, Business, and Technology (FBT) group. He...
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Is Your Suffering An Illusion? - Keith Frankish - Sentientism 234
Keith Frankish is a philosopher and writer, British-born but now living in Crete, Greece. He is an Honorary Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, and an Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the...
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Positive Power Through Connection - Steven Rouk - Sentientism 233
Steven Rouk is founder of the non-profit Connect For Animals, a platform that connects people who want to end factory farming and bring about a more anti-speciesist world. He also helps high-positive-impact organisations implement technology and artificial intelligence solutions. In Sentientist...
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What Animal Festivals Tell Us About Being Human - "Forget The Camel" author Elizabeth MeLampy - Sentientism 232
Elizabeth MeLampy is an author and a Harvard-educated lawyer, with experience in animal law and environmental law. While in law school, she worked on issues related to farmedanimals, wild animals, and captive animals with Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic. She was also in the inaugural cohort…
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"You can be a victim of oppression and also oppress others" - Seb Alex - Sentientism 231
Seb Alex is an animal and human rights activist, as well as a lecturer, photojournalist and author. He is Founder of the Middle East Vegan Society. Seb has run animal rights advocacy workshops for over 1300+ activists across Europe, the Middle East and Australia. He has given lectures in over 2/3...
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In the classroom! - Sentientism 230
I recently gave this presentation to a network of Religious Education (RE) teachers from Northumberland in the UK. It's aimed at helping teachers bring the Sentientism worldview and its themes into their classrooms. Feedback and ideas are always welcome. Of course I'd love to help in any way I…
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How wide should "The Moral Circle" go? - Jeff Sebo - Sentientism 229
Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare…
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"Sentience is the bedrock of ethics" - Jonathan Balcombe - Sentientism 228
Jonathan Balcombe is an ethologist and author. He lectures internationally on animal behavior and the human-animal relationship. Jonathan’s books include: The Use of Animals in Higher Education; Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good; Second Nature: The Inner Lives of…
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Should we be more dog? - Philosopher Mark Rowlands - Sentientism 227
Mark Rowlands is a writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. His books include Animal Rights, The...
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"The story of our species needs to be re-written in the AI age" - Ronen Bar - The Moral Alignment Center - Sentientism 226
Ronen Bar is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CEO of Sentient, a meta non-profit for animals focused on community building and developing tools tosupport animal rights advocates. He is currently focused on advancing a new community-building initiative, The Moral Alignment…
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"The United Nations has two core defects" - peace entrepreneur Anders Reagan - Sentientism 225
Anders Reagan is a peace entrepreneur, philosopher, academic, and technologist. He is founding director of the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS), an academic think-tank and advocacy organisation with special consultative status at the United Nations that aims to put peace and rights...
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"A Climate of Truth" - Mike Berners-Lee - Sentientism 224
Mike Berners-Lee is Professor in Practice at Lancaster University and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting. His books include How Bad are Bananas?, The Burning Question and There Is No Planet B and he is a contributing author to The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg.…
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Hugo Award winning Sci-Fi author Peter Watts - "We are entropic eddies complex enough to have woken up" - Sentientism 56 - REMASTERED
Peter Watts (https://rifters.com/) is a Hugo Award winning sci-fi author. His works include the Rifters trilogy (e.g. Starfish) & the Firefall series (e.g. Blindsight). He earned a Ph.D from the Univ of BC Canada. He held several academic positions & worked as a marine-mammal biologist before...
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What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning and Walter Veit - Sentientism 223
Heather Browning is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her primary research interests are animal welfare, ethics, and consciousness. Walter Veit is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading and an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy...
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Baroness Natalie Bennett "You'll have less stuff in your life but you'll have far more life!" - Sentientism 222
Natalie Bennett is a politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. She was given a peerage (Baroness in the UK House of Lords) in 2019 and is working to abolish her own post bycreating an elected upper legislative chamber. Her journalism…
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"We don't have to wait until the 24th century for a Star Trek future" - Christopher Sebastian - Sentientism 55 - REMASTERED
Remastered audio! Originally published in May 2021. Christopher Sebastian is the director of social media for Peace Advocacy Network, sits on the Advisory Council for Encompass, is a senior fellow at Sentient Media, is co-founder of VGN, and lectures at Columbia University in the Department of...
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A Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision - Matthew Halteman of Calvin University - Sentientism 221
Matthew Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and a fellow in theOxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He wrote Compassionate Eating as Care of Creationand co-editedPhilosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating (with Andrew Chignell and Terence Cuneo). His latest...
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"There is no 'us and them' " - Yasmine Mohammed - Ex-muslim activist - Sentientism 51 - REMASTERED
Yasmine (https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx & https://www.yasminemohammed.com/) is a rights activist, advocating for the rights of women living within Islamic majority countries. Yasmine founded Free Hearts Free Minds (https://www.freeheartsfreeminds.com/). Her book, Unveiled, recalls her...
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The Wood-wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? - forest ecologist Justine Karst - Sentientism 220
Justine Karst is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. As an ecologist she studies the mycorrhizal ecology of forests. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ecology and President of the International Mycorrhiza Society. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the...
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“How do you find meaning in a universe that’s doomed?” - Astrophysicst Dr. Katie Mack @AstroKatie - Sentientism 144 - REMASTERED
Katie is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation. Katie is also a popular science communicator who participates in social media…
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"A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion" - Jim Mason - Sentientism 219
Jim Mason is a lawyer, journalist and animal rights activist. He was introduced to philosopher Peter Singer, guest on Sentientism episodes 156 and 218, in 1974. Their book Animal Factories was first published in 1980 and revised in 1990. It provides a critical review and photographic…
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Peter Singer - Consider The Turkey Then Pardon Them All - Sentientism 218
Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics with a background in philosophy. He works mostly in practical ethics and is best known for his books "Animal Liberation Now" and "Why Vegan?" and for his writings about global poverty. You can find our first Sentientist conversation on episode 156. His new...
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"Collective liberation for all!" - Noella Williams - Writer - Sentientism 217
Noella Williams is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Vox and elsewhere. Noella’s reporting ranges from Black culture to queer identity to intersectional veganism, internet culture, and more. She describes…
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"Factory farming... is impermissible in Islam" - Altamush Saeed - Sentientism 216
Altamush Saeed is an animal and environmental law professor. He teaches Pakistan’s 1st Animal Law Advocacy Course and is Founding Managing Partner At Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants, Pakistan’s 1st dedicated Animal and Environmental law and policy firm. Altamush is known for his...
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"A whole new relationship with non human animals that will blow people’s minds!" - Jonina Turzi - Sentientism 28 - REMASTERED
Jonina (@JoninaTurzi) is cofounder of Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, a volunteer district leader for HSUS, & a doctor of physical therapy & yoga educator. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason &...
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"That system will be history... Our job is just to speed that up" - Thom Norman of FarmKind.giving - Sentientism 215
Thom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind, a new non-profit focused on raising money for some of the best farmed animal charities. FarmKind is designed to help donors both have a big impact for animals and donate to the organisations they care about most. It allows users to split donations…
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"This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik - Sentientism 214
Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their previous book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science...
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"Spirituality is a great way in which capitalism commodifies people's belief" - Richard Twine of Edge Hill University - Sentientism 213
Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology at Edge Hill University in the UK, working at the nexus of critical animal studies, environmental sociology, the sociology of climate change and gender studies. He is co-director of The Centre for Human Animal Studies, an interdisciplinary forum for research…
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"You don't really have to convince people to be compassionate" - Jesse Tandler MD of New Roots Institute - Sentientism 212
Jesse Tandler is Managing Director of New Roots Institute. He oversees programming, people operations, and implementation of New Roots Institute's strategy. Jesse is a writer, academic, and has been an educator for nearly two decades. He earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2002 and an MFA from the...
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"Being more rather than having more" - Ecolinguist Arran Stibbe - Sentientism 211
Arran Stibbe is Professor in Ecological Linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire. In his teaching and research he focuses on how language makes us who we are as people, and the role of language in building the kind of society we live in, using discourse analysis and ecolinguistics....
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Talking to the most important people in the world (maybe) about Sentientism - The RE Podcast - Sentientism 210
This episode is a cross-post of my discussion with Louisa Jane Smith on "The RE Podcast". Her audience are some of the most important people in the world - religions and worldview teachers and their students. Make sure you go and subscribe there too. As well as hosting the podcast Louisa is a...
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"Not personhood... beingness" - Professor Maneesha Deckha - Sentientism 209
Maneesha Deckha is a law professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her work initially spanned human rights, injustice, feminist theory, post-colonial & decolonial theory and later, inter-species justice and its links and intersectionality with human social justice....
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"Good ethics does start with what's real... with what's true" - Philosopher Joel MacClellan - Sentientism 208
Joel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. After completing his B.A. in philosophy at the University of Akron, he was a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama working in environmental education and sustainable development. He completed his doctorate in...
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We discuss the biggest questions: "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" with scientists, celebrities, activists, writers and philosophers.The Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined.Find out more at https://sentientism.info/ or join a group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism. Also on YouTube!
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