Lynda (https://twitter.com/LMKorimboccus and http://www.korimboccus.com/) is an anthrozoologist, sociologist & 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 (http://www.vegansociology.com/journal/). Lynda’s recent paper, “The Peppa Pig Paradox”, was published in the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (http://journalforcriticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/JCAS-Vol-17-Iss-5-October-2020-1-FINAL.pdf).   In these 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 audio is also on our Podcast - subscribe here: https://apple.co/391khQO & all the other platforms https://pod.link/1540408008.
The video of our conversation is here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_YjyCRc4ym8
We discuss:
- Being an activist academic
- The "Peppa Pig Paradox" and cognitive dissonance
- Critical Animal Studies and Vegan Sociology
- Multi-disciplinary perspectives spanning psychology, sociology, anthrozoology and philosophy
- "There's no such thing as an amateur philosopher"
- Being a child philosopher
- Growing up Methodist Christian with an ex-Muslim father who converted to Christianity, then later went back to Islam
- Drifting away from the church
- Being a "weak atheist" or agnostic
- Bible stories were only ever stories. Never believing they were true
- Reasons why people leave religions
- "I don't like labels". Having the freedom to choose what makes sense
- Compassion as a common theme running through, and pre-dating religions
- Religious sectarianism and violence in Scotland
- If we strip religious ethics back to universal compassion we don't need the supernatural beliefs as justifications
- Compassion, kindness, social justice and veganism as the central elements of Lynda's ethics
- Taking decisions to minimise harm
- The danger of socially constructed categories re: gender, race, species. Pets vs. farmed animals
- The risks of a human-centred perspective, even in our understanding of and use of sentience
- And much more (see YouTube or sentientism.info for full show notes)
Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at https://sentientism.info/. Join Lynda on our "wall" https://sentientism.info/wall/ using this: https://sentientism.info/im-a-sentientist.
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Thanks Graham for the post-prod: https://twitter.com/cgbessellieu