I am an associate professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University (Andrew at Dalhousie). My areas of specialization are in animal (bio)ethics, naturalized epistemology, neuroethics, and the philosophy of animal behaviour and cognition. I am interested in how deepening scientific understanding of the psychological capacities of various nonhuman animals should change philosophical discussions of their knowledge (beyond a simple reliabilism), agency (including their consent and dissent capacities) and treatment in captivity (primarily in laboratories).

@liberanimal

All is one and all beings deserve the freedom to flourish.

If our ability to suffer doesn’t count for anything, then we could cause the greatest pain/suffering and yet not be held accountable. What decent morality maximizes suffering?

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Amy co-directs the Ethics in Education Network which supports progressive, secular ethics at the core of K-12 education. She also co-hosts the Ethical Schools podcast. Beyond the EIEN Amuy educates institutional and political influencers on the devastating impacts of animal agriculture.

Amy is vegan, has a naturalistic worldview and is a Humanist and a Sentientist.

@amyhlaff
Amy at Ethical Schools

Because all sentient beings are the same in our will to live, and our ability to suffer.

@bindu832

@gzed777

Marcus is a professional tennis player. He is a philanthropist and an advocate for effective altruism through his work as the founder of High Impact Athletes and as a member of Giving What We Can. He is veg*an and has a naturalistic worldview.

Marcus’ Sentientist Conversation with me is here on YouTube and Podcast.

Marcus on Wikipedia
@MarcusDaniell

Louis Gough is a vegan sociologist interested in veganism, anthropocentrism and the interconnectedness of human-to-nonhuman and human-to-human forms of oppression. Despite being deeply sceptical about the capacities of human reason – and the notion of “reason” itself – Louis believes that it is irrefutably evident that, alongside humans, nonhuman animals are sentient. Based on this belief, coupled with an ongoing commitment to rejecting the harms and delusions of anthropocentrism and speciesism, he argues that the very least we can do is behave benignly and with humility toward our fellow animals and other lifeforms and the environments in which they and we live. Veganism is, Louis believes, indispensable to this.

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“I’m concerned with oppression in all its forms.”

Joey is assistant professor of philosophy at McNeese State University & programme coordinator for the nonprofits Farm Forward & Better Food Foundation (See also the Default Veg campaign). His research covers philosophies of food, medicine, animals & environment. He teaches biomedical ethics & sections of ethical theory & existentialism.

He is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

Watch his Sentientist Conversation with me here on YouTube or Podcast.

Joey on Academia.edu

I’m a sentientist as excluding anyone’s suffering from moral consideration will always be arbitrary. Hence, the interests of all sentient beings deserve equal consideration.

@JosephLabour

As someone who is personally against bigotry, speciesism seems like a combination of racism, sexism, and ableism combined. I see no reason why someone that has the mental capabilities of a 3-5 year old (ex, pigs) should be treated the way they are simply because they have a body that does not look like a monkey, as ours does. If monkeys (homo sapiens) deserve rights and to live (as I believe they do) free of discrimination despite mental or physical differences, then why is someone to be judged on their worth for having feathers or hooves when we’ve already determined that judging someone on their bodily abilities and appearance is not justification for denying them personhood rights? It would be ethically inconsistent to be speciesist while claiming to be antiracist, antisexist, and/or antiableist.

@NorthyHunter

Kristof Dhont is a social psychologist & senior lecturer at the university of Kent where he runs SHARKLab (Study of Human InterGroup & Animal Relations​). He is the author of “Why We Love & Exploit Animals“. Kristof is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

Kristof’s Sentientist Conversation with me is on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast.

@kristof_dhont
SHARKLab at Kent University

See the famous Bentham quote. What matters is can they feel.

@DavidCMcLean1

Ethical reason, cannot justify speciesism.

Because the needs of sentient beings, their freedom and the continued existence of sentient life are the are the only aspects one can build a reasonable framework of ethics upon.

Love and compassion for all sentient beings.

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Everything that lives is holy.

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Harm Not for All

I care deeply about both rationality and ethics. My ethical foundation is exactly identical to the fundamental tenants of Sentientism. My conclusions and my ethics as a whole seem to differ slightly, but we start from a very similar set of principles.

Carrie Poppy is an American journalist, atheist, vegan, creator, and host of the popular podcast “Oh No! Ross and Carrie” which describes itself as “the show where we don’t just report on spirituality, fringe science and claims of the paranormal, but take part ourselves.” The show itself comes from a skeptical perspective (both hosts are atheists) but also approaches the topics with genuine curiosity, warmth, and interest. She’s not a fan of labels, but shares the Sentientist commitments to naturalism and sentiocentrism.

OhNoPodcast.com  and OhNoPodcast on Wikipedia
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@CarriePoppyYES

Evidence. Reason. Compassion.

Critical thinking and compassion are both essential for a more nurturing world, and Sentientism brings those two things together.

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“I do not want to contribute to suffering.”

Jonina is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a Co-Founder of Lancaster Farm Sanctuary. She is involved in the collective liberation movement and identifies as an ecofeminist and a Sentientist.

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.

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@joninaturzi

I hate bricks

I’m a Sentientist because: ethics.
@JacksoneraMaria

I have one challenge as a moral being, to draw a line, in pencil, between what is a someone and what is a something. Along that messy line, the more certain I am that another is a someone, the less like an object, and the more like an equal subject I must treat them.

@EightTwo