Best We Re The Defects Podcasts (2025)

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Should we be more dog? - Philosopher Mark Rowlands - Sentientism 227 1:28:46

20h ago1:28:46

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Mark Rowlands is a writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. His books include Animal Rights, The Body in Mind, The Nature of Consciousness, Animals L…

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"The story of our species needs to be re-written in the AI age" - Ronen Bar - The Moral Alignment Center - Sentientism 226 1:43:20

25d ago1:43:20

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Ronen Bar is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CEO of Sentient, a meta non-profit for animals focused on community building and developing tools tosupport animal rights advocates. He is currently focused on advancing a new community-building initiative, The Moral Alignment Center, to ensure AI development benefits all sentient bei…

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"The United Nations has two core defects" - peace entrepreneur Anders Reagan - Sentientism 225 1:35:32

1M ago1:35:32

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Anders Reagan is a peace entrepreneur, philosopher, academic, and technologist. He is founding director of the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS), an academic think-tank and advocacy organisation with special consultative status at the United Nations that aims to put peace and rights mechanisms on more rigorous, evidence-based foundations.…

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"A Climate of Truth" - Mike Berners-Lee - Sentientism 224 1:28:14

2M ago1:28:14

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Mike Berners-Lee is Professor in Practice at Lancaster University and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting. His books include How Bad are Bananas?, The Burning Question and There Is No Planet B and he is a contributing author to The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg. His latest book is A Climate of Truth. In Sentientist …

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Hugo Award winning Sci-Fi author Peter Watts - "We are entropic eddies complex enough to have woken up" - Sentientism 56 - REMASTERED 1:15:52

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What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning and Walter Veit‬ - Sentientism 223 1:15:14

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Heather Browning is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her primary research interests are animal welfare, ethics, and consciousness. Walter Veit is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading and an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity of Munich. Much o…

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Baroness Natalie Bennett "You'll have less stuff in your life but you'll have far more life!" - Sentientism 222 1:16:56

3M ago1:16:56

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Natalie Bennett is a politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. She was given a peerage (Baroness in the UK House of Lords) in 2019 and is working to abolish her own post bycreating an elected upper legislative chamber. Her journalism in Australia, Thailand and the UK has been published i…

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"We don't have to wait until the 24th century for a Star Trek future" - Christopher Sebastian - Sentientism 55 - REMASTERED 1:08:02

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A Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision - Matthew Halteman ‪of Calvin University‬ - Sentientism 221 1:39:24

4M ago1:39:24

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Matthew Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and a fellow in theOxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He wrote Compassionate Eating as Care of Creationand co-editedPhilosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating (with Andrew Chignell and Terence Cuneo). His latest book,Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Go…

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"There is no 'us and them' " - Yasmine Mohammed - Ex-muslim activist - Sentientism 51 - REMASTERED 1:30:12

4M ago1:30:12

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Yasmine (https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx & https://www.yasminemohammed.com/) is a rights activist, advocating for the rights of women living within Islamic majority countries. Yasmine founded Free Hearts Free Minds (https://www.freeheartsfreeminds.com/). Her book, Unveiled, recalls her experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Islamic household …

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The Wood-wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? - forest ecologist Justine Karst - Sentientism 220 1:32:52

4M ago1:32:52

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Justine Karst is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. As an ecologist she studies the mycorrhizal ecology of forests. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ecology and President of the International Mycorrhiza Society. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matter…

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“How do you find meaning in a universe that’s doomed?” - Astrophysicst Dr. Katie Mack @AstroKatie - Sentientism 144 - REMASTERED 1:27:25

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"A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion" - Jim Mason - Sentientism 219 1:24:38

5M ago1:24:38

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Jim Mason is a lawyer, journalist and animal rights activist. He was introduced to philosopher Peter Singer, guest on Sentientism episodes 156 and 218, in 1974. Their book Animal Factories was first published in 1980 and revised in 1990. It provides a critical review and photographic documentation of factory farming practices in North America. Jim'…

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Peter Singer - Consider The Turkey Then Pardon Them All - Sentientism 218 54:08

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Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics with a background in philosophy. He works mostly in practical ethics and is best known for his books "Animal Liberation Now" and "Why Vegan?" and for his writings about global poverty. You can find our first Sentientist conversation on episode 156. His new book, Consider the Turkey, is available now from Pri…

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"Collective liberation for all!" - Noella Williams - Writer - Sentientism 217 1:21:18

7M ago1:21:18

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⁠Noella Williams⁠ 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, d…

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"Factory farming... is impermissible in Islam" - Altamush Saeed - Sentientism 216 1:08:39

7M ago1:08:39

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⁠Altamush Saeed⁠ 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…

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"A whole new relationship with non human animals that will blow people’s minds!" - Jonina Turzi - Sentientism 28 - REMASTERED 1:13:15

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Jonina (@JoninaTurzi) is cofounder of Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, a volunteer district leader for HSUS, & a doctor of physical therapy & yoga educator. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our c…

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"That system will be history... Our job is just to speed that up" - Thom Norman of ‪FarmKind‬.giving - Sentientism 215 1:12:04

8M ago1:12:04

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Thom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind, a new non-profit focused on raising money for some of the best farmed animal charities. FarmKind is designed to help donors both have a big impact for animals and donate to the organisations they care about most. It allows users to split donations between an expert-recommended super-effective charity and t…

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"This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik - Sentientism 214 1:15:20

8M ago1:15:20

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Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York TimesMagazine. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their previous book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Their latest book, "Our Kindred Creatures" …

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"Spirituality is a great way in which capitalism commodifies people's belief" - Richard Twine of Edge Hill University - Sentientism 213 1:24:21

8M ago1:24:21

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Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology at Edge Hill University in the UK, working at the nexus of critical animal studies, environmental sociology, the sociology of climate change and gender studies. He is co-director of The Centre for Human Animal Studies, an interdisciplinary forum for research and activities that engage with the complex material, …

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"You don't really have to convince people to be compassionate" - Jesse Tandler MD of New Roots Institute - Sentientism 212 1:22:26

9M ago1:22:26

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Jesse Tandler is Managing Director of New Roots Institute. He oversees programming, people operations, and implementation of New Roots Institute's strategy. Jesse is a writer, academic, and has been an educator for nearly two decades. He earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2002 and an MFA from the New School in 2007. Shortlythereafter, he began teach…

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"Being more rather than having more" - Ecolinguist Arran Stibbe ‪- Sentientism 211 1:16:22

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Arran Stibbe is Professor in Ecological Linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire. In his teaching and research he focuses on how language makes us who we are as people, and the role of language in building the kind of society we live in, using discourse analysis and ecolinguistics. Ecolinguistics examines how language encodes the stories we…

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Talking to the most important people in the world (maybe) about Sentientism - The RE Podcast - Sentientism 210 1:12:19

9M ago1:12:19

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This episode is a cross-post of my discussion with Louisa Jane Smith on "The RE Podcast". Her audience are some of the most important people in the world - religions and worldview teachers and their students. Make sure you go and subscribe there too. As well as hosting the podcast Louisa is a Religious Education Teacher and Head of Life Skills at a…

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"Not personhood... beingness" - Professor Maneesha Deckha‪‬ - Sentientism 209 1:19:23

10M ago1:19:23

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Maneesha Deckha is a law professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her work initially spanned human rights, injustice, feminist theory, post-colonial & decolonial theory and later, inter-species justice and its links and intersectionality with human social justice. Maneesha founded and directs the Animals & Society Resear…

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"Good ethics does start with what's real... with what's true" - Philosopher Joel MacClellan - Sentientism 208 1:50:38

10M ago1:50:38

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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 sch…

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Should we be more dog? - Philosopher Mark Rowlands - Sentientism 227 1:28:46

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"The story of our species needs to be re-written in the AI age" - Ronen Bar - The Moral Alignment Center - Sentientism 226 1:43:20

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"The United Nations has two core defects" - peace entrepreneur Anders Reagan - Sentientism 225 1:35:32

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"A Climate of Truth" - Mike Berners-Lee - Sentientism 224 1:28:14

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Hugo Award winning Sci-Fi author Peter Watts - "We are entropic eddies complex enough to have woken up" - Sentientism 56 - REMASTERED 1:15:52

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What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning and Walter Veit‬ - Sentientism 223 1:15:14

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Baroness Natalie Bennett "You'll have less stuff in your life but you'll have far more life!" - Sentientism 222 1:16:56

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"We don't have to wait until the 24th century for a Star Trek future" - Christopher Sebastian - Sentientism 55 - REMASTERED 1:08:02

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A Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision - Matthew Halteman ‪of Calvin University‬ - Sentientism 221 1:39:24

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"There is no 'us and them' " - Yasmine Mohammed - Ex-muslim activist - Sentientism 51 - REMASTERED 1:30:12

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The Wood-wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? - forest ecologist Justine Karst - Sentientism 220 1:32:52

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“How do you find meaning in a universe that’s doomed?” - Astrophysicst Dr. Katie Mack @AstroKatie - Sentientism 144 - REMASTERED 1:27:25

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"A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion" - Jim Mason - Sentientism 219 1:24:38

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Peter Singer - Consider The Turkey Then Pardon Them All - Sentientism 218 54:08

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"Collective liberation for all!" - Noella Williams - Writer - Sentientism 217 1:21:18

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"Factory farming... is impermissible in Islam" - Altamush Saeed - Sentientism 216 1:08:39

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"A whole new relationship with non human animals that will blow people’s minds!" - Jonina Turzi - Sentientism 28 - REMASTERED 1:13:15

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"That system will be history... Our job is just to speed that up" - Thom Norman of ‪FarmKind‬.giving - Sentientism 215 1:12:04

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"This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik - Sentientism 214 1:15:20

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"Spirituality is a great way in which capitalism commodifies people's belief" - Richard Twine of Edge Hill University - Sentientism 213 1:24:21

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"You don't really have to convince people to be compassionate" - Jesse Tandler MD of New Roots Institute - Sentientism 212 1:22:26

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"Being more rather than having more" - Ecolinguist Arran Stibbe ‪- Sentientism 211 1:16:22

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Talking to the most important people in the world (maybe) about Sentientism - The RE Podcast - Sentientism 210 1:12:19

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"Not personhood... beingness" - Professor Maneesha Deckha‪‬ - Sentientism 209 1:19:23

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"Good ethics does start with what's real... with what's true" - Philosopher Joel MacClellan - Sentientism 208 1:50:38