Jeff’s first Sentientist Conversation with Jamie is here on YouTube (audio also on the Sentientism podcast). His second, focusing on his book The Moral Circle, is here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.

Jeff 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 Program at New York University. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law at the NYU School of Law and an Advisor at the Animals in Context series at NYU Press. Jeff’s research focuses on moral philosophy, legal philosophy, and philosophy of mind; animal minds, ethics, and policy; AI minds, ethics, and policy; and global health and climate ethics and policy. His books include The Moral Circle and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves and he is co-author of Chimpanzee Rights and Food, Animals, and the Environment.

Jeff is a board member at Minding Animals International, which works to further the development of animal studies and animal protection; an advisor at Eleos AI, which works to investigate AI sentience and well-being; an advisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society, which works to connect the global community of insect welfare researchers and stakeholders; a senior research affiliate at the Institute for Law & AI, which researchers and advises on legal challenges posed by AI; and a mentor at Sentient Media, which works to create transparency around the role of animals in our lives.

Jeff has at least a sentiocentric moral scope, is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview. He has said: “My credence that Sentientism is the correct & only theory of moral status is lower than 1 but it is relatively high.”

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