Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings
We’ve just published an audio-remastered version of a classic Sentientism podcast episode (#55 from May 2021) with author, researcher and lecturer Christopher Sebastian. The Apple podcast link is here, the …
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Our Top 10 Sentientist Conversations… according to the algorithms.
David specializes in European philosophy, the history and philosophy of science and the philosophy of animal minds. A Sentientism conversation about what’s real, who matters and how to make a better world.
Episode 186 of the Sentientism podcast (Apple link here) is a bonus cross-post of my discussion with Nick Pendergrast, co-host of 3CR’s Freedom of Species radio show and podcast, about “the logic of the larder” – an argument that animal farming could be a good thing for farmed animals.
I had the pleasure of being Adrian David Nelson’s guest on his Waking Cosmos podcast a while back. Our conversation is now the latest episode (#182) of our Sentientism podcast as a bonus.
Talking about the Sentientism worldview on Josh Milburn’s “Knowing Animals” podcast.
I had the pleasure of joining Mathew Giagnorio on his Modes of Inquiry podcast to talk about Sentientism.
An episode of the Clearer Thinking podcast about Sentientism: “Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings”.
Talking about Sentientism (evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings) on the Freedom of Species show.
Talking about Sentientism with Josh Szeps on “Uncomfortable Conversations” and Howie Jacobson on “Plant Yourself”.
An update on the Sentientism movement as of October 2021
Jessica Pierce is a bioethicist, philosopher and writer. Her work focuses on human-animal relationships & interconnections between ecosystems & health.
This was great fun. Mariann Sullivan interviewed me about Sentientism for the wonderful Our Hen House podcast. Listen to the episode on the OHH web site or all the usual platforms. Our Hen …
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In this video, Jamie talks to Better Meat CEO, Animal Rights Hall of Famer, TED talker, Business for Good podcast host and Clean Meat author, Paul Shapiro.We talk about Paul’s animal advocacy journey (he co-founded Compassion over Killing, now Animal Outlook, while still at school) and the potential for new technologies to render animal farming obselete.
We discuss how Naomi’s personal philosophy has evolved, including her experience of religious sectarianism in Northern Ireland, being excluded from a religious education class and feeling a deep affinity for non-human animals from an early age.
We’ve launched a Sentientism podcast! You’ll hear from celebrities, academics and activists about “what’s real?” and “what matters?”.
“The aim is to convince 8 billion people to use evidence & reason & extend universal compassion to all sentient beings, thereby solving all the world’s problems.” New podcast interview!
Annika van den Born from Future Based and I discuss how naturalism and sentiocentrism come together in Sentientism. We discuss how “higher power” systems of thinking tend to warp compassionate ethics. We talk about the risks of environmental movements extending their moral circles too far (biocentrism, ecocentrism or holism) while often ignoring sentient non-human animals. We also talk about what a Sentientist utopia might look and how we might move towards it.
I had a great conversation about Sentientism with Ben Cattaneo of the All Things Risk podcast. You can listen to the episode on the All Things Risk website, via Apple, Soundcloud or all the usual platforms. The All …
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A fascinating Beyond Species podcast conversation focused on Sentientism and animal advocacy. We talked about how anti-speciesists and vegans generally are sentientist, in that they grant meaningful moral consideration to all sentient beings.
