New episode!! 📣📣 A conversation w/ Jonathan Birch about his new book, 'The Edge of Sentience.' Some beings are clearly sentient—primates and dogs, for example. Many other beings might be, but we're just not sure. How should we treat the edge cases? Listen: disi.org/the-space-of-p…

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A 1hr conversation with Many Minds podcast introducing some of the key ideas in The Edge of Sentience - if you'd like an entry point to the book that zooms in on the non-human animal cases, this could be the one for you. disi.org/the-space-of-p…

What is sentience? Here's a clip from Many Minds podcast in which I explain how I define it. Listen to the whole episode here (disi.org/the-space-of-p…) or in any of the usual podcast places.

How is wildlife like raccoons, skunks and coyotes adapting to urban environments, and what can studying “cosmopolitan carnivora” teach us about diverse intelligences? 🦝 🎧 Find out in this Many Minds podcast with Sarah Benson-Amram Sarah Benson-Amram UBC Animal Behavior & Cognition Lab: templetonworldcharity.org/blog/cosmopoli…

Our world teems with minds—human, animal, and artificial. Many Minds podcast delves into how they think, sense, feel, and learn through engaging conversations. #podcastdelivery

Listen to Many Minds podcast interview Jonathan Birch about his new book, 'The Edge of Sentience.'  Everyone agrees that primates and dogs are sentient. How about other, more controversial animals? #ScienceTwitter #AnimalSentience disi.org/the-space-of-p…

We may not all agree on which creatures are sentient. But we might be able to agree on which creatures are "sentience candidates"—and this alone should carry ethical weight. Just one of the topics discussed in our recent episode w/ Jonathan Birch! disi.org/the-space-of-p…

How can we manage our uncertainty about sentience? The Edge of Sentience proposes that the concepts of a "sentience candidate" and an "investigation priority" can help us think through the hard cases. In this clip from Many Minds podcast I introduce these ideas.

New episode!! 📣📣 A conversation w/ Sarah Blaffer Hrdy about her latest book, 'Father Time'! The capacity for nurturing is in all of us—and traces back millions of years. But it's not always expressed. What triggers our care-taking tendencies? Listen: disi.org/the-nature-of-…

Accounts of how we became hyper-cooperative as a species often focus on adult men. What if infants—and their need for nurture—are actually the center of the story? Just one of the topics discussed in our recent episode, w/ Sarah Blaffer Hrdy! Listen: disi.org/the-nature-of-…

Podcast with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy about her book Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies. Discusses the innate capacity of men to nurture babies. Many Minds podcast thepodcastbrowser.com/sarah-blaffer-…