✍️ Human equality, animal ethics, and why individuals have moral rights. Postdoctoral researcher at McGill and the Centre for Research in Ethics.
Joined September 2019
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21 Sep 2023
My first journal article has just been published in The Philosophical Quarterly.
I argue against an increasingly popular way to argue humans matter more than animals
And: 10 years ago today, I first arrived at university. V lucky I can mark it this way
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UK chicken industry lobby thinks it would be a travesty to "process" less than 1 billion chickens a year. The way they speak about animals is disgusting
Apr 2
No, no and no.
#FactoryFarming - food waste on a massive scale - is not the future of a sustainable, secure food system, as well as having awful environmental and #AnimalWelfare impacts
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Apr 2
No, no and no.
#FactoryFarming - food waste on a massive scale - is not the future of a sustainable, secure food system, as well as having awful environmental and #AnimalWelfare impacts
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It's live and taking off! Is the #manosphere making men incapable of love? New episode of Surprising Ethics! On masculinity, misogyny, vulnerability and love. Listen hereeee linktr.ee/surprisinget...
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Mar 17
Grateful that The Ecologist is covering my podcast today! I hope Surprising Ethics continues to surprise me, and you theecologist.org/2026/mar/17…
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New episode on the philosophy of new year's resolutions! Discussing how to set fulfilling resolutions and whether resolutions are a good idea in what Bertrand Russell thinks is a culture of insane hyper-productivity #NewYearsResolutions linktr.ee/surprisingethics
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19 Dec 2025
The wonderful public philosophy magazine The Pamphlet has just published a feature of my podcast! the-pamphlet.com/articles/su…
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1 Dec 2025
Is envy morally *good*? Far from being a deadly sin, does it drive progress and help us understand ourselves? Sarah Protasi thinks so. In today's Surprising Ethics episode we discuss envy's virtues, self-esteem, self-acceptance, love, and social comparison linktr.ee/surprisingethics
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20 Nov 2025
It's World Philosophy Day! Why not celebrate hard with an episode of Surprising Ethics? For the most intriguing ideas in philosophy. Link to platforms: linktr.ee/surprisingethics
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3 Nov 2025
Will AI have rights? Will AI really become conscious? Why? My podcast has a new episode where you can hear from experts on both sides of the debate linktr.ee/surprisingethics
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31 Oct 2025
I just wrote this, on whether a UK supermarket is producing the 'happy, natural, ethically raised' pigs it claims to in new animal welfare drive.
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7 Oct 2025
Happy to recommend a new philosophy podcast: Surprising Ethics, by @will_gildea.
One of the early episodes (surprisingethics.buzzsprout.…) very thoughtfully discusses some of my work on the moral status of (non-)monogamy.
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5 Sep 2025
Just saw this squirrel playing with a stick like a cat. Squirrel people: is he/she ok?
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2 Sep 2025
V excited to say I just launched a podcast!! Surprising Ethics is all about the most interesting and surprising ideas in ethics and political theory. 3 launch episodes 1-min trailer here! surprisingethics.buzzsprout.…
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17 Jul 2025
Dr Isabella Trifan from @UniEssexGovt:
“Today’s announcement is a step forward—not because 16-year-olds can pay taxes, but because they are citizens who are affected by policy and are as capable of voting as many adults are.”
#VotingAge #YouthVoice #Democracy #WeAreEssex
17 Jul 2025
The voting age will be lowered to 16 for all UK elections as part of an overhaul of the country’s voting system on.ft.com/46gC4Bs
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2 May 2025
Extract of my letter in the Guardian today:
That Luiz Hoinkis chose to clone his dog may seem to be a sign of his sincere love for animals. But his decision and the growing pet‑cloning industry that makes it possible may instead be an indication that...
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15 Apr 2025
Filmed a squirrel and groundhog for family. 2 hrs later saw dead squirrel on road nearby. Depressing, though our speciesist world can make it confusing to feel sadness properly. Annihilation is apparently only serious for those with a certain bits of deoxyribonucleic acid!
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24 Mar 2025
'Very traumatic', police say. 'A highly distressing crime that has caused death and serious injury to defenceless animals'. I agree. But aren't there other more routine, industrial killings that are similarly distressing and visited on defenceless animals?
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20 Mar 2025
Was emailing myself notes on why rabbits have moral rights. Half way through I looked up and saw a rabbit, perhaps lost, next to city train tracks on top of a big motorway. Bit of a sad sight.
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