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“Factory farming… is impermissible in Islam” – Altamush Saeed – Sentientism Ep:216

Altamush Saeed is an animal and environmental law professor in Pakistan. A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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“Change is possible but hard” – Jeff Sebo – Author, Activist, Academic – New Sentientist Conversation

In this video, Jamie talks to author, activist and academic Jeff Sebo. Amongst many other roles, Jeff is Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program at New York University, is a board member at Animal Charity Evaluators and is a Senior Fellow at Sentient. We talk about spanning philosophy disciplines and taking academic thinking into the real world through activism for a multi-species political society. We discuss Jeff's journey from considering Christian ministry, through reactionary atheism, then to a more generous interpretation of religious thinking. We cover naturalism, sentience, the nature of consciousness and much more!
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“How can I have been morally asleep for so long?” – Prof Randall Abate – New Sentientist Conversation

Sentientist Conversation with Randall Abate. Randall is an author and environmental, animal, climate and constitutional law professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey. His books include "What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law?" and "Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources".
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“De-centring the human” – New Sentientist Conversation with Josh Gellers. Also Happy New Year!

In this video, Jamie talks to author and associate professor Josh Gellers. Josh’s work spans animal, environmental and artificial intelligence ethics and law. He is a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project and is a Fulbright scholar. He is Author of “Rights for Robots”.We talk about growing up in a culturally Jewish household, non-human rights (animal, robot or otherwise) and how to take a pluralistic approach that “wades in the waters of other ways of knowing” without slipping into a relativism that excuses causing needless harm.
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“The United Nations has two core defects” – Peace Entrepreneur Anders Reagan – on Sentientism Ep:225

Anders Reagan is a peace entrepreneur, philosopher, academic, and technologist. He is founding director of the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS). A Sentientism Conversation.
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“The United Nations has two core defects” – Peace Entrepreneur Anders Reagan – on Sentientism Ep:225

Anders Reagan is a peace entrepreneur, philosopher, academic, and technologist. He is founding director of the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS). A Sentientism Conversation.
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“We’re like babies running around with machine guns” – Mike Berners-Lee – on Sentientism ep:224

Mike Berners-Lee is a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University. His latest book is A Climate of Truth. A Sentientism conversation.
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What (and who) Are Zoos For? – Heather Browning and ‪Walter Veit‬ on Sentientism ep:223

A Sentientism conversation with philosophers Heather Browning and Walter Veit about their book "What Are Zoos For?"
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