Susan Blackmore
Susan is a writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. Her fields of research include memetics, parapsychology, consciousness, and she is best known for her book The Meme Machine. She has written or contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles and is a contributor to The Guardian newspaper in the UK.
She has a naturalistic worldview and is a patron of Humanists UK. In this article, she recognises the strong evidence that many non-human animals are capable of experiencing suffering, but refers to “vegetarians” in the third person, saying “Many people become vegetarians because of the way farm animals are treated”.
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Our First IRL Sentientism Meetup! Plus Education and Other Updates
If you’re in range of London on the 27th July come and join our first in person meetup, a picnic in Regent’s Park. As with all of our communities and […]
Our First IRL Sentientism Meetup! Plus Education and Other Updates
If you’re in range of London on the 27th July come and join our first in person meetup, a picnic in Regent’s Park. As with all of our communities and […]
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“Sentience is the bedrock of ethics” – Jonathan Balcombe, Ethologist and Author, on Sentientism Ep:228
Jonathan Balcombe is an ethologicst and author of "What A Fish Knows". A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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Should we be more dog? – Bestselling Author and Philosopher Mark Rowlands on Sentientism Ep:227
Mark Rowlands is a philosopher and bestselling author of "The Word of Dog". A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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