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David Clough

Find our conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. David Clough is a Professor and Chair in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. […]
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Joan Slonczewski

Find our Sentientism conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism podcast here. The full show notes and other links are here. Joan Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon […]
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Michelle St. John

Find our Sentientism conversation (with Heather Marshall) on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Michelle is the founder and director of VinE (Veganism in Education). VinE aims, […]
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Tom Cledwyn

Find our Sentientism Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism podcast here. Tom Cledwyn describes himself as the “chief emailer” at Drop Dead Generous (he’s actually the co-founder). […]
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Keith Frankish

Find our Sentientism Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Keith Frankish is a philosopher and writer, British-born but now living in Crete, Greece. He is […]
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Elizabeth MeLampy

Find our Sentientist Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Elizabeth is an author and a Harvard-educated lawyer, with experience in animal law and environmental law. […]
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Natalie Bennett

Find our Sentientist conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Natalie Bennett is a politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of […]
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Matthew Halteman

Find our Sentientist Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Matthew is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and a fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. […]
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Justine Karst

Find our Sentientist Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Justine is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. As an ecologist she studies […]
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Altamush Saeed

Find our Sentientism conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Altamush is an animal and environmental law professor. He teaches Pakistan’s 1st Animal Law Advocacy Course […]
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Noella Williams

Watch our Sentientism Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and listen on the Sentientism Podcast here. Noella is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, […]
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Monica Murphy

Find our Sentientism Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism podcast here. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. With Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New […]
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Bill Wasik

Find our Sentientism Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism podcast here. Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. With Monica Murphy, veterinarian […]
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Joel MacClellan

Find our Sentientism Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism podcast here. Joel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. After completing his B.A. in […]
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Louisa Jane Smith

Find our Sentientism conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and on the Sentientism podcast here. Louisa is a Religious Education (RE) Teacher and Head of Life Skills at a school […]
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Michael Levin

Find our Sentientism Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast. Michael is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University where he is the Vannevar […]
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Keith Tucker

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast. Keith is founder and Executive Director of Hip Hop is Green, a nonprofit organization on […]
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Jimmy Videle

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast. Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist (in the sense of working to understand nature scientifically), […]
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Arin Greenwood

Find our Sentientist Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism Podcast here. Arin describes herself as an animal writer, novelist and lawyer. Her young adult book “Your Robot […]
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Michael Hauskeller

Michael is head of philosophy at the University of Liverpool. His current work spans transhumanism, death and meaning. He has written on whether non-human animals can have meaningful lives and […]
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Ashley Byrne

Ashley is Director of Outreach for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). She has led a broad range of PETA’s campaigns and has been interviewed about her work […]
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Bel Jacobs

Between 1999 and 2014, Bel was Style Editor for Metro. The fall of Rana Plaza in 2013 forced a re-assessment; today, she is a writer, speaker and activist with a […]
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Paige Parsons Roache

Paige is Communications Director for the streaming platform UnchainedTV. After initially going vegan “for the environment” Jane became an ethical vegan after attending her first vigil with LA Animal Save. […]
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Paul Bloom

Paul is a psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. […]
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Sandra Nomoto

Sandra describes herself as a vegan foodie, content writer & editor and wife on a mission to empower others to make small, meaningful decisions and actions that will help make […]
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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian is a multi-award winning fantasy and science fiction author. He is known best for his series Shadows of the Apt and for his novel Children of Time. Children of […]
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Emerson Green

Emerson is the host of the Counter Apologetics & Walden Pod podcasts. Both are also available on his  @Emerson Green  YouTube channel. He is an atheist and has a naturalistic […]
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Pearl Monique Cole Brunt

Pearl describes herself as “poly-vocational”. She is a foreign relations & management consultant with an MA in International Relations & an MBA in International Business. She is a vegan whole […]
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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher was an author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books and countless articles (with the New Statesman, The Nation, Vanity Fair and many others) on culture, politics, […]
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Greg Graffin

Greg is a singer and evolutionary biologist. He is most recognized as the lead vocalist and only constant member of punk rock band Bad Religion, which he co-founded in 1980. He […]
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Mark Solms

Mark is a psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, best known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his use of psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience. He holds the Chair […]
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Fearne Cotton

Fearne is a television and radio presenter. She has presented television programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethons. In 2007, she became the first […]
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Helen Kopnina

Helen (@hkopnina) is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Business at Northumbria University & The Hague University. Her research focuses on environmental education, biodiversity & corporate sustainability. She is an atheist and […]
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Lee McIntyre

Lee McIntyre is a Philosopher of Science and the author of "How to Talk to A Science Denier".
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Andy Norman

Andy Norman, PhD is the author of “Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think“. His work has appeared in Scientific American, Psychology Today, […]
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Frans de Waal

Frans’ Sentientist Conversation with me is on the Sentientism YouTube and podcast. Frans was a primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the […]
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Henry Mance

Henry is the chief features writer for the Financial Times newspaper. He is the author of “How to Love Animals in a Human Shaped World.” Henry is vegan and is […]
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Martha Nussbaum

Martha was nominated as a “Suspected Sentientist” via our “I know a Sentientist” form (thank you!). More details are forthcoming, but in the meantime, here is Martha on Wikipedia. Martha […]
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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 […]
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David Clough is Professor and Chair in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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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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