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The Animal TurnBonus: FarmKind and Effective Altruism with Thom NormanThom Norman joins Claudia on the show to discuss the work of FarmKind and the tenets of effective altruism. They talk about FarmKind’s compassion calculator and how it strategically doesn’t include vegan messaging. They discuss the organizations FarmKind supports and some of the critiques levelled against effective altruism. Date Recorded: 20 March 2025 Thom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the end of factory farming by expanding the coalition of people working to protect farmed animals. After a career as a nuclea...
2025-09-0152 min
Prosthetic GodsLongtermismEpisode 24 - Longtermism
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. discuss the philosophical theory of longtermism, that we should take the interests of hypothetical future people as seriously as existing people.
Plus! Listeners can contact us at prostheticgods@gmail.com! Reach out with questions, topics you want to hear more about, or just to say hi. As Nir says, "All complaints go somewhere else." 😂
Show Notes:
An Introduction to Longtermism
Are Children The Future?: Longtermism, Pronatalism, and Epistemic Discounting - J. Hughes
The toxic ideology of longtermism - Alice Crary
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2025-08-201h 17
Love & Philosophy#50: Love and Liberation in Times of Crisis with philosopher Rupert Read (and Wittgenstein)Send a love messageSupport the showIn this episode, which was recorded in the autumn of 2024, Andrea Hiott talks with environmental philosopher and public intellectual Rupert Read. They delve into Read's realization that 'this civilization is finished,' his engagement with Wittgenstein's philosophy (especially the book he edited with Alice Crary), his subsequent involvement with Extinction Rebellion, how he has come to understand crisis as inflections of love, and the 'moving forward' work of the Climate Majority Project. The conversation explores themes of crisis, consciousness, intergenerational solidarity, and the liberating power of love and...
2025-02-131h 26
Open to DebateDoes the Effective Altruism Movement Get Giving Right?Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement that uses empirical data to maximize the impact of charitable efforts. Those who champion EA praise its methodological framework for maximizing the effectiveness of donations, thus ensuring equal consideration for all individuals. Those who challenge EA argue that its emphasis on measurable outcomes may overlook important yet hard-to-quantify causes, potentially restricting the scope of what's considered beneficial. Now we debate: Does the Effective Altruism Movement Get Giving Right? Arguing Yes: Peter Singer, Author of “The Most Good You Can Do”; Philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Bioethics at the Universi...
2024-08-2353 min
Think Like a VeganEp. 20 What’s Effective Altruism and what are some alternatives?Pre-order the paperback edition of our book, Think Like a Vegan! This highly anticipated release will be available January 2025 in the UK and worldwide and April 2025 in North America. It will contain a new afterword so you can dive into updates and new material you won't find in the hardcover. We've added insightful reflections and fresh content to keep you inspired and informed. Pre-order on Amazon, Target or wherever you buy books and ask your library to carry it
Alice Crary and Lori Gruen talk about what is effective altruism, why it's harmful and what are alternatives which al...
2024-07-2448 min
The Cambridge Union | In Conversation With...This House Believes You Can Put A Number On Human Life | Cambridge UnionThis debate took place on Thursday
1st February 2024 at 8:00pm in the Debating Chamber.
As modelling and technological capacity improves, an old
problem on morality is rearing its head, especially as we all were confronted with the grim graphs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Is morality and human life calculable, a hedonic calculus of pleasure or pain, and can we theoretically get there?
New movements, such as the Effective Altruism Movement, are
strongly arguing yes, arguing for a revolutionary new approach to modelling where all impacts can be measured, fulfilling the vision of...
2024-02-111h 00
Origin StoryEffective Altruism: Morality by numbersIn the last episode of season four, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey discuss effective altruism. Last month the US entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the dramatic collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried was also a prominent advocate of effective altruism, a philanthropic movement based on utilitarian philosophy, and the scandal has thrown the EA community into crisis.Dorian and Ian explain how two maverick young Oxford philosophers ended up creating a multi-billion-dollar movement, explore the ideas behind it, and track its journey towards long termism: the philosophy...
2023-12-111h 10
Już tłumaczę#168 Piąty wakacyjny dziennik czytelniczy – część pierwszaCześć! Zapraszamy Was do wysłuchania kolejnego wakacyjnego dziennika czytelniczego. Po raz kolejny zabrałyśmy mikrofon na wakacje, by dzień po dniu nagrywać dla Was wrażenia z lektury. Jest różnorodnie, pojawiają się nietrafione tytuły i oczywiście różnego rodzaju odgłosy w tle. W tym roku postanowiłyśmy podzielić nasze wakacyjne nagranie na dwie części – kolejne nagranie pojawi się za dwa tygodnie. Miłego słuchania!
Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście, to: Johanne Lykke Holm, „Strega”, tłum. Justyna Czechowska, Pauza; Colson Whitehead, „Intuicjonistka”, tłum. Rafał Lisowski, Albartos; Honorée Fanonne...
2023-08-061h 35
Storytelling Animals"Let Birds Be Birds": On VINE Sanctuary, with pattrice jonesPart 4 of my 4-part series on animal agency! An interview with pattrice jones of VINE Sanctuary. We talk about building a just multispecies community, the trouble with effective altruism, and the sexism of the dairy industry.For more on VINE Sanctuary: https://vinesanctuary.org/For my prior interview with Lori Gruen and Alice Crary: https://shows.acast.com/storytelling-animals/episodes/animal-crisis-a-new-critical-theory-alice-crary-lori-gruenFor their effective altruism book, to which pattrice contributes: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-good-it-promises-the-harm-it-does-9780197655702?cc=us&lang=en&Support this podcast with a monthly donation on...
2023-06-0657 min
Hope for the AnimalsMeasuring Our Movement with Krista Hiddema, PhDToday on the podcast we dig into the philosophy and practice of Effective Altruism (EA) and how it permeates and influences the animal rights movement. Krista Hiddema, Executive Director of For The Greater Good, has written a chapter in the new anthology, The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism edited by Carol Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen. Krista offers a broad introduction to EA and how in the last decade, it has informed and now enveloped the animal advocacy movements strategy and tactics and why this may be a detrimental path for...
2023-03-151h 09
The Animal TurnBonus: Critical Animal Theory with Lori Gruen and Alice CraryIn this bonus episode Claudia talks to Alice Crary and Lori Gruen about their recent book “Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.” They touch on what inspired the book and spend most of the conversation focused on what “Critical Animal Theory” means. It is a timely and theoretically dense conversation.Date Recorded: 1 August 2022 Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School, where she is a co-founder and steering committee member of the Collaborative for Climate Futures. She was previously Chair of Philosophy at the New Schoo...
2022-09-191h 12
Species UniteLori Gruen and Alice Crary: Animal Crisis"We have to look at those structures. If we don't look at those structures, if we don't look at the economic structures and we don't look at the instrumentalization of animals, the use of animals, the devaluation, the lack of dignity that's given to animals, we're just going to perpetuate our sort of grotesque use of these creatures." – Lori Gruen Philosophers, Alice Crary and Laurie Gruen co-wrote the recently released book, Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory. The book is a deep dive into the many systems that are failing both animals and huma...
2022-09-0845 minStorytelling AnimalsAnimal Crisis: A New Ethical Paradigm, with Alice Crary and Lori GruenToday's guests are philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, authors of the new book Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory. In it, they argue that the dominant approaches to animal ethics--whether utilitarian or rights-based-- treat animals too much as abstractions and often fail to engage with the political, economic, and social systems that sustain oppression among humans and other creatures alike. To grow an alternative, they believe, we must pay more attention to our relationships and learn new ways of seeing.Learn more about the book here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=animal-crisis-a-new-critical-theory--9781509549672
2022-08-0958 min
Factually! with Adam ConoverAnimal Crisis with Lori Gruen and Alice Crary.How can we best help animals, when it’s we humans who cause their suffering? Animal Crisis authors Alice Crary and Lori Gruen join Adam to explain how the same systems that hurt and kill animals also harm humans. They discuss the human rights abuses that happen in industrial slaughterhouses and how palm oil monocrops are devastating the world’s rainforests. They also share how we can have solidarity with animals in our daily lives. You can purchase their book at http://factuallypod.com/books
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2022-07-271h 10
New Books in Animal StudiesAlice Crary and Lori Gruen, "Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory" (Polity, 2022)As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping, and other human activities, it becomes increasingly difficult to register the full scope of the crisis. In Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory (Polity Press, 2022), Alice Crary and Lori Gruen reinvigorate the discourse of animal ethics with a critical theoretical approach that gives us new ways of thinking about what is owed to animals. By theorizing the links between human and non-human animal liberation, they offer ways of understanding why it can be so hard to see, hear, or feel the value an...
2022-07-201h 01
New Books in PhilosophyAlice Crary and Lori Gruen, "Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory" (Polity, 2022)As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping, and other human activities, it becomes increasingly difficult to register the full scope of the crisis. In Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory (Polity Press, 2022), Alice Crary and Lori Gruen reinvigorate the discourse of animal ethics with a critical theoretical approach that gives us new ways of thinking about what is owed to animals. By theorizing the links between human and non-human animal liberation, they offer ways of understanding why it can be so hard to see, hear, or feel the value an...
2022-07-201h 01
Knowing AnimalsEpisode 195: Animal critical theory with Alice Crary and Lori GruenOn this very special episode of Knowing Animals, we have two guests! Our first guest is Professor Alice Crary. Alice is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy, Liberal Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the New School for Social Research, and she's currently a visiting fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She's authored or edited 8 books, including 2016's Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought. Our second guest is Professor Lori Gruen, who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. Her many books include the textbook Ethics and Animals: An...
2022-06-2744 min
Wild ConnectionThe Animal Crisis with Alice Crary and Lori GruenIn March of this year The UK government declared that lobsters, crabs, octopuses and related species will be included under the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. This means that they can finally get legal protection that protects them from practices like being boiled alive and having the tendons of their pincers cut. All I can say is if you need a law to stop you from engaging in such horrific practices….shame on you.
Today my guests are two renowned philosophers, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen who have published a new book called Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theo...
2022-06-2655 min
Living PhilosophyAnimal Crisis with Alice Crary & Lori GruenWhat if the key to respecting and appreciating non-human animals resided in understanding our human selves better? Thinking about animals and our relation to them might then involve trying to grasp the ways in which our current social, economic, and moral systems skew our perceptions and practices. Prof. Alice Crary (The New School for Social Research) and Prof. Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University) delve into the fundamental questions and problems that can help us better understand the crisis affecting animals and how we might then seek resolution through a considered form of resistance....
2022-05-1258 min
The Philosopher & The NewsLori Gruen & Animal Ethics in War and PeaceWe don’t often think of animals as war casualties, but animals die in large numbers in every war. Sometimes as specific targets, to deprive the enemy of a food source, sometimes trapped in zoos and shelters, and other times as wildlife. But their deaths are never officially counted, and the senseless killing animals, unlike the killing of innocent civilians, is not considered a war crime. So do we have special moral duties towards animals in war, given that they have no conception of what war is, and it is something imposed on them by humans? T...
2022-04-271h 21
Wait Five MinutesPicture City, FloridaThe Land Boom swept through Florida in the 1920s, and big dreams soon followed. Hollywood tried to make a mark on the Sunshine State, but the tides of history had other plans.
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2021-08-3025 min
The Circled SquareJanet Gyatso, Posthumanism and Animal Ethics in Buddhist StudiesDescription
In this episode, Dr. Janet Gyatso discusses how she teaches her students about posthumanism and animal ethics in her courses on Buddhist Studies. She is the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Harvard Divinity School.
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“Part of what I'm trying to do is set aside all the mythology and ideology that we have and try to see animals for what they are.” Janet Gyatso
“Posthumanism is an attempt to ratchet down the centrality of humans, in our thought, in our discourse, in our v...
2021-05-1354 min
Five QuestionsAlice CraryI ask the philosopher Alice Crary five questions about herself.
Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor at the New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow at Regent’s College, Oxford. She is the author of "Beyond Moral Judgment" (2007) and "Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought" (2016).
2020-10-0600 min