I'm a PhD student at Western University. I'm primarily interested in animal ethics, animal consciousness, sentience and sentientism. My secondary interests include personal identity, the self, the value of consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, machine consciousness and environmental ethics. I'm also somewhat interested in Buddhist philosophy.
Philosophical views I'm sympathetic to, among others:
-broad/wide (non-valenced) sentientism,
-Ryder's painism,
-metaphysical monism,
-panprotopsychism and emergentism about consciousness,
-Galen Strawson's "real materalism",
-Paleo-Lockean (Daintonian) phenomenalism in personal ontology and i…
I'm a PhD student at Western University. I'm primarily interested in animal ethics, animal consciousness, sentience and sentientism. My secondary interests include personal identity, the self, the value of consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, machine consciousness and environmental ethics. I'm also somewhat interested in Buddhist philosophy.
Philosophical views I'm sympathetic to, among others:
-broad/wide (non-valenced) sentientism,
-Ryder's painism,
-metaphysical monism,
-panprotopsychism and emergentism about consciousness,
-Galen Strawson's "real materalism",
-Paleo-Lockean (Daintonian) phenomenalism in personal ontology and identity.
