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Mylan Engel Jr.

Why Sentientism? Because every sentient being has the capacity to be harmed, and any being with a capacity to be harmed has a moral right not to be harmed. See […]
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Sara Pascoe

Sara is an actress, comedian and writer. She has appeared on television programmes including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown for Channel 4, QI and The Great British Sewing […]
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Jon Richardson

Jon is a comedian. He is best known for his appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his work as co-host […]
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Matti Wilks

Matti is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She was previously a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, working with Professor Paul Bloom with whom she […]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder

Doctor Claudia is a Geography PhD at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. She is host of The Animal Turn Podcast (Subscribe!) Claudia is an atheist (ex-Christian) and has a naturalistic worldview […]
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Jill Ettinger

Jill has been a leading voice in digital media for more than a decade. She’s been published in outlets including MTV, The Huffington Post, and the Village Voice. She served […]
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Tom Clark

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Michael Dorf

Michael is a law professor and scholar of U.S. constitutional law. He is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. In addition to constitutional law, Michael […]
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Katie Mack

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast. Katie is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication […]
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Chiara Mingarelli

Chiara is an astrophysicist who researches gravitational waves. She is an associate research scientist at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics and an assistant professor of physics at the […]
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Simon Amstell

Simon is a comedian, writer and director. He wrote and directed the films Carnage and Benjamin. His work on television has included presenting Popworld and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Simon […]
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Greg Egan

Greg is a science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. He specialises in stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the […]
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E.D.E. Bell

Emily is a fantasy fiction author who (from her edebell.com home page): “enjoys blending classic and modern elements. A passionate vegan and earnest progressive, she feels strongly about issues related […]
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Sherry Colb

Sherry was C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. She had been valedictorian of her high school class and then valedictorian of her class at Columbia College. After […]
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Karen Davis

Karen is an animal rights advocate and president of United Poultry Concerns. UPC is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 to address the treatment of domestic fowl in farming – […]
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Matt Johnson

Find our Sentientist Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and here on the Sentientism podcast. Matt is Press Coordinator and an investigator for Direct Action Everywhere (DxE). As part of […]
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Neil Levy

Neil is a professor of philosophy with research interests spanning philosophy of mind, psychology, free will, moral responsibility, epistemology, and applied ethics. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford […]
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Alene Anello

Alene is the President and Founder of Legal Impact for Chickens. She graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for a federal judge and then started litigating for animals. She has […]
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Chaitanya Talreja

Chaitanya is Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in the Centre for Regulatory Policy and Governance. He has a PhD in Economics. Chaitanya’s research interests include […]
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Clive Lewis

Clive is a Labour politician in the UK who has been the Member of Parliament for Norwich South since winning the seat at the 2015 general election. He was a […]
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Thomas Metzinger

Thomas is a philosopher and emeritus professor of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, a […]
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Carol Gigliotti

Carol is an author, artist, animal activist and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor […]
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Lisa Kemmerer

Lisa is an activist and academic who specialises in anymal and environmental ethics. She was an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Montana State University Billings until she retired […]
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Philip McKibbin

Philip is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, of Pākehā (NZ European) and Māori (Ngāi Tahu) descent. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the […]
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Ana Bradley

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast. Ana is Executive Director of Sentient. Sentient is a non-profit journalism outlet aimed at making […]
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Erin Wing

Erin is the Deputy Director of Investigations at Animal Outlook, a national animal-advocacy nonprofit organisation. Erin was an undercover investigator for two years. She left the field after her last […]
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Rutger Bregman

Rutger is a historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics, including “Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World” and “Humankind”. His work […]
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Marina Bolotnikova

Marina is a journalist, currently focusing on factory farming and the criminalization of activists who fight it. Marina has written for Vox, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Intercept and […]
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Susana Monsó

Susana is assistant professor based at the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science of UNED, working on animal ethics and the philosophy of animal minds. She holds a […]
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Jackie Norman

“Even when I was deeply entrenched in the dairy and beef industries for almost two decades before becoming a vegan activist, it was impossible to deny or discount the personalities, […]
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Aph Ko

Aph is a writer, vegan activist, and digital media producer. She is the author of Racism as Zoological Witchcraft; co-author (with Syl Ko) of Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, […]
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Robert Garner

Robert is a political scientist, political theorist, and intellectual historian. He is a Professor Emeritus in the politics department at the University of Leicester, where he has worked for much […]
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Jonathan Balcombe

Find our Sentientist conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here and the Sentientism podcast here. Jonathan is an ethologist and author. He was Director of Animal Sentience with the Humane Society […]
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Steven Best

Steven is a philosopher, writer, speaker and activist with 30 years work in diverse social movements such as animal rights, species extinction, human overpopulation, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass […]
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Dale Jamieson

Dale is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University, a scholar of environmental ethics and animal rights, and an analyst of climate change discourse. He also serves […]
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Jo-Anne McArthur

Jo-Anne is a photojournalist, public speaker, animal rights activist and author. She is best known for her We Animals Media project, a media agency and photography project documenting human relationships […]
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Miyoko Schinner

Miyoko is a chef, cookbook author, animal sanctuary founder and owner of dairy-free cheese brand Miyoko’s Creamery. She is a leading advocate for the right of vegan food products to […]
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Ingrid Newkirk

Ingrid is an animal activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world’s largest animal rights organization. She is the author of several books, […]
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Kathryn Gillespie

Kathryn Gillespie PhD is a writer, multispecies ethnographer, & feminist geographer. She is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Geography & the Applied Environmental […]
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David DeGrazia

David is a moral philosopher specializing in bioethics and animal ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1989, and the author or […]
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Religious people and atheists should team up to help animals

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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Giving $500 to 1000 people to do something ‪Drop Dead Generous‬

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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Can Capitalism Ever Be Compassionate? – Marketing Expert Jack Waverley on Sentientism Ep:235

Jack Waverley is a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Manchester. A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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Is Your Suffering An Illusion? – Philosopher Keith Frankish‬ on Sentientism Ep: 234

Keith Frankish is a philosopher and writer, best known for his illusionist philosophy of mind. A Sentientism conversation.
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