These are people who have been nominated as a Suspected Sentientist, but don’t seem to be Sentientist (yet). This is either because they don’t seem to have a naturalistic worldview (committed to evidence and reason, rejecting supernatural beliefs) or because they don’t seem to grant meaningful moral consideration to all sentient beings.
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Altamush is an animal and environmental law professor. He teaches Pakistan’s 1st Animal Law Advocacy Course and is Founding Managing Partner At Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants, Pakistan’s 1st dedicated Animal and Environmental law and policy firm. Altamush is known for his non-profit work on Interspecies Justice for which he has won multiple awards. He also co-founded the Charity Doings Foundation, a non-profit that aims to save all life, be it human, animal, or the environment in Pakistan. Amongst many other advisory roles he serves as a strategic academic advisor and advocate for Muslim Veganism and Environmentalism at Green Islam.
Altamush is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope. He applies a broadly naturalistic epistemology in his work while having faith-based Islamic beliefs.
@AltamushSaeed
Altamush on LinkedIn
Altamush on Instagram
@earcpakistan
Charitydoings.org
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Noella is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Vox and elsewhere. Noella’s reporting ranges from Black culture to queer identity to intersectional veganism, internet culture, and more. She describes herself as a “journalist, vegan foodie, pokemon trainer, dj, and abolitionist.” One of her most recent pieces, for Vox, was “I’m a Black vegan. Why don’t you see more of us?”
Noella is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope. She was brought up as a Baptist Christian but is not religious any more, describing herself as agnostic. Although she applies a naturalistic epistemology in most situations she does leave space for non-evidence based supernatural beliefs.
NoellaWilliams.com
All Noella’s links on CampSite
@yonoella
Noella on Insta
I’m a Black vegan. Why don’t you see more of us?
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Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. With Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, she wrote “Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus” which was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Their latest book together, “Our Kindred Creatures” makes a case for seeing the fight against animal cruelty as a crucial thread in America’s history. Readers are introduced to the activists, scientists, and moguls who helped create our modern views on animals, with our intense compassion for certain species and ignorant disregard for others.
Monica has a broadly naturalistic worldview and at least a theoretical sentiocentric moral scope.
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Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. With Monica Murphy, veterinarian and writer, he wrote “Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus” which was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Their latest book together, “Our Kindred Creatures” makes a case for seeing the fight against animal cruelty as a crucial thread in America’s history. Readers are introduced to the activists, scientists, and moguls who helped create our modern views on animals, with our intense compassion for certain species and ignorant disregard for others.
Bill has a broadly naturalistic worldview and at least a theoretical sentiocentric moral scope.
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Joel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. After completing his B.A. in philosophy at the University of Akron, he was a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama working in environmental education and sustainable development. He completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Tennessee. Joel was a scholar-in-residence at Wesleyan University in 2013 as the New York University Animal Studies Initiative’s Animal Ethics and Public Policy Fellow. He held visiting assistant professorships at Washington State University and Binghamton University, SUNY, before coming to Loyola. His main areas of research are applied ethics, especially environmental ethics, and the philosophy of science. One of his many academic publications is “Minding Nature: A Defense of a Sentiocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics“.
Joel has a naturalistic worldview and a sentiocentric moral scope.
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Louisa is a Religious Education (RE) Teacher and Head of Life Skills at a school in England. She is host of the RE podcast, an RE Subject reviewer for Oak National, a member of the NATRE (National Association for Teachers of Religious Education) executive committee and the Surrey SACRE (Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education) as well as being a public speaker and author.
Louisa has a broadly naturalistic, agnostic worldview (ex-Catholic and ex-Protestant). She has at least a sentiocentric moral scope.
@TheREPodcast
The RE Podcast
Louisa on Instagram
The RE Podcast on Facebook
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Michael is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. He is also an associate faculty at the Wyss Institute at Harvard. Michael is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms. Michael’s Levin Lab focuses on “Embodied Minds: understanding diverse intelligence in evolved, designed, and hybrid complex systems” and works “at the intersection of developmental biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science”. This work includes the bioengineering of novel living machines and has clinical applications in regenerative medicine. Michael has editing roles at a number of academic journals and has published more than 350 papers.
Michael has a sentiocentric moral scope in concept but not yet in practice. He has a naturalistic worldview.
drmichaellevin.org
thoughtforms.life
@drmichaellevin
Michael on Wikipedia
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Keith is founder and Executive Director of Hip Hop is Green, a nonprofit organization on a mission to support holistic wellness and transform urban communities environmentally. He has been a visionary and social entrepreneur for over 30 years. He has worked with hundreds of businesses, youth groups and community organizations and many icons in the entertainment business as a creative promoter and an ambassador for the culture of hip hop.
He is vegan and has at least a sentiocentric moral scope. He says “I am not Christian or religious today…. but I am very spiritual and I believe in god.”
Hip Hop is Green
@hiphopisgreen
HHIG on Instagram
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Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist (in the sense of working to understand nature scientifically), and researcher. He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook: Cultivating Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs from Urban Backyard to Rural Farmyard and the co-founder of NAVCS-Certified Veganic. His writing has appeared in many publications including CounterPunch, Countercurrents, and LA Progressive.
He uses a naturalistic epistemology in his work but also has some supernatural aspects to his worldview. He is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.
Jimmy’s YouTube Show
Jimmy on Facebook
The Veganic Grower’s Handbook
Jimmy Videle – Observatory
Publications – The Humane Herald
La Ferme de L’Aube
Jimmy’s Boileau Biodiversity Reserve Crowdfunder
North American Veganic Certification
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Arin describes herself as an animal writer, novelist and lawyer. Her young adult book “Your Robot Dog Will Die” was published in 2018. Arin was animal welfare editor for The Huffington Post and now writes about dogs, cats, and other animals for The Today Show, The Dodo, The Washington Post, Slate, Creative Loafing, the American Bar Association Journal and many other publications.
Arin has a sentiocentric moral scope in theory. She has a broadly naturalistic worldview while being open minded about the possibility of the supernatural.