Luke is a lecturer working in the Department of Psychology at the University of Exeter. His research examines social and moral development between childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Between 2017 and 2020 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on the Wellcome Trust, ESRC and NSF funded “STEM Teens” project. This project examined the role of youth educators in informal science learning sites, both by longitudinally following youth educators and by quasi-experimentally examining their role in these sites.
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?”
Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube.
We discuss:
00:00 Welcome
- Previous guests Kristof Dhont (ep:47), Matti Wilks (ep:45)
- PHAIR Society conference https://phairsociety.org/
01:53 Luke Intro
- Social & moral developmental #psychology
- Human prejudice, discrimination - fairness, co-operation, resource allocation
- PHAIR symposium on "The Meat Paradox" "That was a big inspirational moment for me"
- Tania Lombrozo ep:168
04:13 What's Real?
- "The beauty of this podcast is forcing people to wrestle with their own socialisation"
- Mum from Northern Ireland & dad from Scotland "culturally religious backgrounds"
- Going to church & "learning about the more scientific worldview alongside that... I wrestled with the conflict of those two things when I was younger"
- Rural childhood "being face to face with the natural world"
- "I sort of decided for myself when I was about 11 or 12 years old that the religious side of it was not really for me"
- "My parents were so respectful of whatever we wanted to do as kids"
- #punk and #metal
- "There's lots of people who come from sub-cultures into this animal rights movement... it's those sub-cultural spaces where these more radical ideas are first laid down and then expand out into the broader world"
- Nico Delon ep 159
- @moby 's Punk Rock Vegan Movie
- "I haven't gone as far as the full animal rights sleeve tattoo yet but there's still time"
- Peer influence "your parents might act as your early socialisers but a lot of what happens from when you're 6-7 years and older is down to the circles you're moving with in outside the home"
- A vegetarian friend at 13
- "If you work in science for long enough you stop believing that anything can be proven 100%... do not use the word 'proof'... you cannot use that word."
- "I'm with you - the more naturalistic view"
- Nature-facing spiritual movements "pagans are on the rise again... people are turning back to nature"
- Epistemological issues: #QAnon #antivaxx #flatearth #BigLie #trump #astrology #homeopathy #covid19 ...
- "There could be a rational computational model for how we interact with the world but that's just not how it works - the social world is impossibly complicated and the human brain is not very well set up to understand... so we have to use these more simple heuristics"
- "We see the importance of group membership time and time again - that identity aspect"
- #ReplicationCrisis
- "We have to use these simple decision-making processes because everything is too complicated"
- "We can dream of being the rational thinker but we're never going to get there"
- #misinformation , #disinformation , #conspiracy
- Genuine vs. performative belief?
- "What does it mean to really believe something?"
...and much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info.
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"Reductionism is well-named. It reduces what you can do." - Michael Levin - Sentientism 199
"We need to imagine a different world" - Emilia Leese - author and host of Think Like a Vegan - Sentientism 198
Hip Hop is Going Green - Keith Tucker of Hip Hop is Green - Sentientism 197
Nigerian Food Revolution - Hakeem Jimo of Veggie Victory and ProVeg Nigeria - Sentientism 196
Consciousness Live! - with skateboarding philosopher Richard Brown - Sentientism 195
A Truly Humane Education - Laura Chepner - The Vegan Society's Education Officer - Sentientism 194
Imagining Ethical Schools - Sentientism 193
Is Veganic the Future of Farming? "We grow plants using plants" - Jimmy Videle - Sentientism 192
Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese - Sentientism 191
"Your Neighbour Kills Puppies" - Tom Harris - Activist, Artist & Author - Sentientism 190
"A new world of animal justice" - Sabine Brels of World Animal Justice - Sentientism 189
Talking to Humanists about Sentientism - Cross-post bonus from Podcast for Inquiry - Sentientism 188
"What if we saw ourselves as species diplomats?" - David Peña-Guzmán of Overthink and SFSU - Sentientism 187
Could animal farming be good for the animals? The Logic of the Larder - with Nick Pendergrast - Cross-post bonus episode from 3CR's Freedom of Species radio show and podcast - Sentientism 186
"If you combine rationality and compassion you have the essence" - Jonathan Leighton of OPIS - Sentientism 185
Is veganism a moral obligation? Ghostless Machine cross-post bonus - Sentientism 184
Don't underestimate your influence! - Chris Bryant of Bryant Research - Sentientism 183
160: "Mother Cow, Mother India" - Yamini Narayanan - International Development A/Prof - Sentientism
Waking Cosmos - a cross-post bonus episode - Sentientism 182
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