Michael Huemer
Michael is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has defended ethical intuitionism, direct realism, libertarianism, veganism (see his book Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism), and philosophical anarchism.
He grants moral consideration based on sentience (sentiocentrism), is vegan and has a methodologically naturalistic worldview.
Find Michael’s Sentientist Conversation with me here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.
Michael’s FakeNous Blog
Michael at Colorado (enjoy his “Scary Bible Quotes”)
Michael on Wikipedia
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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.
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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Tom Cledwyn is co-founder of Drop Dead Generous. A Sentientism Conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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