Matti Wilks
Matti is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She was previously a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, working with Professor Paul Bloom with whom she published the paper “Children prioritize humans over animals less than adults do”. She studies moral psychology & moral development – including attitudes to cultivated meat & the “natural”, the moral status of various types of entities & altruism.
Matti is vegan, implying a sentiocentric moral scope. She is non-religous and has a naturalistic worldview.
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MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds
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MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds
Joan Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer. A Sentientism worldview conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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Teaching Compassion
Michelle St. John is founder and director of VinE (Veganism in Education). Heather Marshall is a Senior Lecturer and Religious Education PGCE Course Leader at Edge Hill University. A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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Sentientism Meet-Up 25 Oct 2025 (and some other updates)
An invitation to the second ever Sentientism meetup and some updates about our education work and a potential book!
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