Jessica Pierce (born October 21, 1965) is an American bioethicist and writer. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School. She has been writing and lecturing about the moral contours of human-animal relationships for over 15 years and is a leading scholar in animal ethics and environmental bioethics. She has published 11 books, including The Last Walk and Run, Spot, Run, as well as hundreds of scholarly and popular articles. Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She writes a regular blog for Psychology Today called All Dogs Go to Heaven. You can find out more about Jessica at jessicapierce.net. Her most recent book, co-authored with Marc Bekoff, is A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without People (Princeton University Press) will be released in October of 2021.

Jessica is vegan and has a naturalistic world-view, although remains open minded about and is influenced by eastern philosophy.  

In Jessica’s Sentientist Conversation with me (also here on podcast), she says “Compassion needs to be grounded in reality”.

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Jessica on Wikipedia

I hold to a moral framework that considers desires the basic unit of moral consideration. All sentient beings have desires, so it’s a natural fit for my moral theory.

Because Humanism isn’t good enough when it tolerates the tremendous moral injustices caused by speciesism today.

Lynda is an anthrozoologist, sociologist and philosopher who teaches sociology in Scottish Further Education. She is also a musician, songwriter, writer and artist. Lynda is Editor-in-Chief of the Student Journal of Vegan Sociology. She is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

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

Lynda’s recent paper in the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, “The Peppa Pig Paradox”
@LMKorimboccus
korimboccus.com

Love the belief that ALL sentient beings have emotions.

Those who are able to suffer ought be granted moral consideration.

@aokellermann

Colleen on Instagram

Joe is an author and lecturer at the University of Leicester. His research interests lie in the areas of human rights, animal rights and legal, political and moral theory and he is currently working on issues relating to the moral and legal status of non-human animals.

Joe’s Sentientist Conversation with me on YouTube and Podcast

@DrJoeWills
Joe at the University of Leicester

Find Mikko’s Sentientist Conversation with me on our YouTube and Podcast

Mikko is a tech start-up founder and CEO (now https://candle.to/​). He founded & is now board chair of Sentient – an organisation dedicated to making the world a better place for all sentient beings through journalism.

Fiona on FaceBook

Because suffering sucks

@georgeliot
Marjorie on Facebook

“I think a secular morality has to come from the systematisation of empathy, and empathy is a mode of understanding sentient beings.”

Luke is a philosopher of mind at the Centre for Mind, Brain & Consciousness at New York University. Although Luke works primarily on philosophy of mind & metaphysics, their areas of interest include ethics, social & political philosophy, early modern philosophy and philosophy of gender & sexuality. Their book, “Reason, Empathy, and the Minds of Others” is under contract with Oxford University Press.

You can find Luke’s Sentientist Conversation with me here on the Sentientism Youtube and on the Sentientism Podcast here on Apple and here on the other platforms​​​​​​.

lukeroelofs.com
Majestic Equality blog

It just makes sense!
@williford_teri

Empathy

John is a professional animal advocate, public speaker and social media consultant. He is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.
Watch John’s guest appearance on #SentientistConversations
Listen to John’s guest appearance on #SentientistConversations (out soon!)
@JohnOberg
johnoberg.org
Patreon.com/JohnOberg

@KieraLawley

Find our second Sentientism conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast. Our first is here back on episode 34.

Zoe is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE). She is considered a pioneer in the comprehensive humane education movement. She has authored eight books both for adults and children, including “The Solutionary Way“. Zoe writes the Becoming a Solutionary blog at Psychology today. She has made numerous TV and radio appearances and has given six TED talks, including “Extending our Circle of Compassion.” She has said “How can we… expand our circle of compassion to include everybody who can suffer?”
Zoe is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

@ZoeWeil
Institute for Humane Education

Evidence, reason, and compassion make the most sense as pillars of a life devoted to truth, equality, and happiness. The tragedy is that most people probably agree, but do not realize how their behaviors and thoughts do not actually accord with these principles. I hope to be part of a movement that helps us live lives that more fully embody these principles and end the suffering of all sentient beings.
@AnDreadtheBlind

“I’m a Sentientist because it’s the most compelling description of my sense of ethics.”

Dan is the host of Truth Wanted, a call-in talk show that’s part of the Atheist Community of Austin.Truth Wanted focuses on how and why people believe what they believe – and how we can talk about beliefs in more effective ways – whether it’s karma or Christ, Bigfoot or crystals.

Dan is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope. He has a non-religious, “igtheist”, naturalistic worldview.

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

@ObjectivelyDan
Dan on Twitch

Suffering is the most important moral issue.
@erniebornheimer

Vegan for the animals (and the environment and my health); atheist and sceptic because I believe in reason and logic (superstition and mythology has its place – in history and fiction); socialist because I want a decent world for the many and not the few; anti-monarchist because I have no time for undeserved privilege that sits on the backs of those born without a silver spoon in their mouths.
@FrankWinfield4

Because reduction of suffering in all sentient beings via science seems like a good goal.
@Maloax1

Jeff’s first Sentientist Conversation with Jamie is here on YouTube (audio also on the Sentientism podcast). His second, focusing on his book The Moral Circle, is here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.

Jeff is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law at the NYU School of Law and an Advisor at the Animals in Context series at NYU Press. Jeff’s research focuses on moral philosophy, legal philosophy, and philosophy of mind; animal minds, ethics, and policy; AI minds, ethics, and policy; and global health and climate ethics and policy. His books include The Moral Circle and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves and he is co-author of Chimpanzee Rights and Food, Animals, and the Environment.

Jeff is a board member at Minding Animals International, which works to further the development of animal studies and animal protection; an advisor at Eleos AI, which works to investigate AI sentience and well-being; an advisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society, which works to connect the global community of insect welfare researchers and stakeholders; a senior research affiliate at the Institute for Law & AI, which researchers and advises on legal challenges posed by AI; and a mentor at Sentient Media, which works to create transparency around the role of animals in our lives.

Jeff has at least a sentiocentric moral scope, is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview. He has said: “My credence that Sentientism is the correct & only theory of moral status is lower than 1 but it is relatively high.”

Jeff on Wikipedia
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@jeffrsebo